Meree chhotee see duniya basee rahe raam
Posted on: February 24, 2026
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#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
The song in this post is from the movie ‘Wanted-1961’. It was directed by N. A. Ansari for ‘Golden Films, Bombay’. The cast of this movie included Sayeeda Khan, Johny Walker, Vijay Kumar, N.A. Ansari, Nazir Hussain, Anwar Hussain, Dulari, Shammi, Manorama, Tony Walker, Helen, Rajan Kapoor, Dilip Dutt, Bihari, Rafi Ajmeri and others.
Here is what our respected Shree Sadanand Kamath jee had mentioned about the movie and its cast while presenting a song ‘raat bhar gardish mein saaqee aaj paimaanaa rahe’…
This was Tony Walker’s first film as a producer in which he launched his younger brother, with a screen name of Vijay Kumar as a lead actor. Probably, this is the only film in which all the three brothers – Johny Walker (Badruddin Kazi), Tony Walker (Kamaluddin Kazi) and Vijay Kumar (Waheeduddin Kazi) worked together.
The film is a typical N A Ansari style of an action drama in which the villain is ruthless and dispassionate for attaining his objective in a planned manner with a calm and composed behaviour. The other ingredients in such type of his films is the mixer of romance, comedy, action, a couple of western dances, some melodramatic scenes and lastly, the ‘fight to finish’ which will end with villain’s arrest or death. And in most of his films, N A Ansari would don the villain’s role branding with fedora type hat, a long coat and pipe/cigar in his mouth. He would have some catchy dialogues too.
Shree Sadanand jee has also given the detailed story of this movie in his above post which is as given below;
Seth Deendayal (Anwar Hussain) is the owner of his automobile business who stays with his wife (Manorama) and their only daughter, Sarita (Sayeeda Khan) in a palatial house. He has his personal driver, Vilayati (Johny Walker) who is more of his entertaining companion than the driver. Chamki (Shammi) is the constant companion of Sarita. Seth Deendayal is a happy man with all the luxuries in his life. His happiness would be complete only when he gets a good bridegroom for his daughter, Sarita.
Another family, Ramesh (Nazir Hussain) stays with his wife (Dulari) and his college going younger brother, Deepak (Vijay Kumar). Ramesh works in Seth Deendayal’s office and barely manages his household expenses. However, Deepak, unmindful of his elder brother’s financial condition, believes in merry making, attending late night parties and going on picnic etc which is resented by Ramesh. However, his wife always shields him from the onslaught of her husband.During a picnic, Deepak becomes friendly with Sarita which, after a couple of meetings, turns into a love affair. They often meet with the connivance of Vilayati and Chamki who drives them to their meeting places. One day, Seth Deendayal is called in the police station where Sarita and Deepak have come after Deepak has been chased by residence of a building thinking him to be a child-lifter. Just to save herself, Sarita introduces Deepak as Prince who owns a hotel. She explains the circumstances which brought them together in the police station. When Deepak had gone into a building to rescue a child from falling, the residents of building pounced upon him thinking him to be a child-lifter. She and Vilayati saved him from the residents. Seth Deendayal is impressed and he invites Prince for a dinner party assuming that he belongs to a rich family and probably his prospective son-in-law.
While everything was going smoothly in the life of Seth Deendayal, one day, a person named Sardarilal (N A Ansari), calls on Seth Deendayal who is surprised to see him as it has opens up his past link. Once Hiralal (now Seth Deendayal) and Sardarilal were partners in the illegal activities off the seacoast of Burma. However, Hiralal gave up the illegal activities and started his new business in automobiles in Mumbai under a new name of Seth Deendayal. Sardarilal has now assumed a new name, Khanna. Police are scouting for him as well as Hiralal and have offered reward for anyone providing information about them.
Khanna has evaluated the business of Seth Deendayal and has meticulously planned to take over his business. First, he seeks a job in his company which he gets as a manager. After some time, he wants him to include him in his business as an equal partner, through signing an agreement of partnership. Seth Deendayal has no option but to agree against the threat of exposing him. It is only when Khanna has demanded to marry Sarita to complete the grabbing of Seth Deendayal’s business, things become complicated as Deepak is already in love with Sarita and Seth Deendayal smells the real intention of Khanna.
With the intention of Khanna becoming very clear to Seth Deendayal, he decides to get Sarita married to Deepak so that at least his wealth and property will go in good hands. He gets Sarita engaged to Deepak. To discredit Deepak in the eyes of Seth Deendayal, Khanna gets him implicated as a thief of costly necklace which makes Seth Deendayal to break Sarita’s engagement with Deepak. Seth Deendayal writes a Deed of Will bequeathing his all wealth and property to his wife and daughter. Before he completes the Will, Khanna with the gun in hand forces him to change the Will in favour of him and Sarita getting married to him.
Fed-up with constant blackmailing by Khanna, one day Seth Deendayal decides to shoot Khanna by inviting him to his chamber for a discussion. However, Khanna is one step ahead of him. He kills Seth Deendayal through the window of his chamber. At that time, to prove his innocence, Deepak comes with a person who has actually done the theft of the necklace. However, he finds a dead Seth Deendayal. Again, Khanna is successful in implicating Deepak as the killer which makes Deepak on the run avoiding the police. By this time, the entire household of Seth Deendayal and Ramesh come to know of the actual identity of Khanna by a newspaper advertisement of police looking for him. Sarita goes to police station informing them the whereabouts of Khanna, With the help of Vilayati and Deepak, police team raid his house and during the fight, Khanna gets killed. Deepak and Sarita unite.
‘Wanted-1961’ has seven songs written by Shakeel Badayuni and composed by composer Ravi. The playback singers for this movie are Asha Bhonsle, Mohd Rafi, and Talat Mahmood. So far, three songs from this movie have already been posted on this blog.
Today I am presenting the fourth song from this movie ‘Wanted-1961’ which is sung by Asha Bhonsle. The song is picturised on Dulari with a child actor. This song is about a traditional Indian woman praying to God to keep her whole family safe and happy and to let her small world continue to prosper.
Lyrics for this song were sent by Prakashchandra long back. Let us listen to this nice composition.
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Song-Meree chhotee se duniya basee rahe raam (Wanted)(1961) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Shakeel Badayuni, MD-Ravi
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
mere ghar mein na aaye kabhee gham ka naam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
meree phoolee phalee mann kee daalee rahey
meree phoolee phalee mann kee daalee rahey
meree bagiyaa na phoolon se khaalee rahey
meree bagiyaa na phoolon se khaalee rahey
rahey jeewan ko mere bahaaron se kaam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
mere ghar mein na aaye kabhee gham ka naam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
jagmagaataa rahey mere dil ka jahaan
jagmagaataa rahey mere dil ka jahaan
bajey angnaa mein khushiyon kee shehnaayiyaan
bajey angnaa mein khushiyon kee shehnaayiyaan
din holee ho meraa deewaalee ho shaam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aam
meree chhotee see duniyaa
main suhaagan hameshaa rahoon dukh se door
main suhaagan hameshaa rahoon dukh se door
yoon hee maathhey pe chamkey khushee ka sindoor
yoon hee maathhey pe chamkey khushee ka sindoor
jag ye bichhde naa bichhde kabhee mere shyaam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raam
mere ghar mein na aaye kabhee gham ka naam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aam
meree chhotee see duniyaa basee rahey raa..aa…aam
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February 24, 2026 at 11:08 pm
Good Evening Sir Ji,
Almost all the composition of Ravi ji, were very pleasant. and melodious.
Ashaji rendered this song very melliflous.
Thanks for sharing a jewel.
Blessings,
Uma 🙏
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