Ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
Posted on: April 6, 2026
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‘Talaash’ (1957) was produced by Daulatram and I M Anand and was directed by Vishram Bedekar. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Beena Rai, Ameeta, Raj Mehra, Mridula, Radhika, Chaman Puri, Bhushan Tiwari, Nazir Kashmiri, Heera Sawant etc. Gajanan Jagirdar and Yakub made their guest appearances in the film.
The VCD of the film which was uploaded on a video sharing platform over one year back is heavily edited with poor quality of video footage. Moreover, the end part of the film appears to be missing as the story gets to an abrupt end. With these limitations, I give below only the gist of the story:
Thakur Ranveer Singh (Chaman Puri) of Shyampur lives alone and is seriously ill in his palatial mansion. He requests the doctor that instead of diagnosing him, he should help him to prepare a Deed of Will. While dictating the Will, the doctor is surprised that he has bequeathed his entire property to his rival’s son, Captain Ajay Singh (Ashok Kumar). Thakur Ranveer Singh explains to him that he had grabbed almost his entire property in a deceitful manner under the advice of his friend, Thakur Ranjeet Singh (Raj Mehra). Now he wants to redeem his wrong doings to Ajay Singh. The contents of the Deed of Will get leaked to Thakur Ranjeet Singh who becomes furious.
While Ajay Singh is on the way to Shyampur on Thakur Ranveer Singh’s invitation to collect the Will, on the way, he had to rescue a girl, Tara (Bina Rai) in bridal dress who has run away from the marriage hall as she was forced to marry an old man by her uncle. Ajay Singh takes her along with him and drops her in a house with a promise to pick up her on his return from Shyampur. The family in the house thinks that they are a married couple, and they agree for Tara’s stay. While Ajay Singh is on his way, he is kidnapped by Ranjeet Singh’s men and is brought to Ranjeet Singh’s house where he has already forcibly brought Thakur Ranveer Singh for change in his Will in his favour and get the signature of Ajay Singh. Before leaving, Ranjeet Singh threatens Thakur Ranveer Singh that if he talks to Ajay Singh something different than what he has told him, he will get killed and Ajay Singh would be implicated for his murder.
Notwithstanding the threat, Thakur Ranveer Singh does not change the Will which he hands over to Ajay Singh. Suddenly, Thakur Ranveer Singh falls on his face as someone has gunned him down to his death. Ajay Singh is arrested on the charge of killing Thakur Ranveer Singh. The court sentence him to death and he is put to a solitary confinement in the jail awaiting for his gallows.
Meanwhile, Tara is worried as Ajay Singh has not returned to take her back as promised. The family starts doubting whether Tara is his wife or she is somebody’s bride which he has brought here. After listening to the family’s conversation, Tara leaves the house and starts walking in the forest. On her way, she gets a lift in a horse-cart. The person in the horse-cart turns out to be Ranjeet Singh who gives her shelter in his house.
Once Ranjeet Singh comes to know the full background of Tara, he forces Tara to marry Ajay Singh so that when he dies by hanging, she will be the legal heir to the bequeathed property. Thereafter, he would marry her. On the other side, he takes the help of the Jail Warden (Gajanan Jagirdar) to convince Ajay Singh to marry Tara so that she would get the property bequeathed to him after his death who has no one to look after. After some hesitation, Ajay Singh agrees. However, when he sees Ranjeet Singh with the fragrance of the scents which he got during the murder of Thakur Ranveer Singh, he becomes suspicious of his hand in the murder of Thakur Ranveer Singh. When Ajay Singh is being taken back to the jail, he runs away from the clutches of the Jail Warden leaving him a letter that he would be back within 7 days either bringing with him the real killer or he would face the gallows.
When this news goes to Ranjeet Singh, he starts blackmailing Tara and decides to put her under house arrest in a bungalow in his village to prevent her from meeting Ajay Singh. However, when Tara was being taken hostage, Ajay Singh, in order to avoid police, suddenly gets into the horse-cart when he sees his co-passenger is Tara who is being taken to confine her in a bungalow. Ajay Singh beats up the horse-cart driver and takes the horse-cart to the family where earlier Tara stayed for a couple of days. During these struggling 7 days, Ajay Singh falls in love with Tara.
After a lot of drama of ‘hide and seek’ between police and Ajay Singh and also with Ranjeet Singh, Ajay Singh has collected the proof as to who is the killer of Thakur Ranveer Singh. On the 7th day, he surrenders to the police and tells the Jail Warden that he has the proof against the real killer but has decided not to pursue the matter for the sake of his love for Tara. When Jail Warden asks him as to who is the killer, the police interrupts the conversation and takes Ajay Singh back to his solitary room in the jail. The story of the film ends in the VCD at this point.
The film had six songs written by Rajendra Krishan which were set to music by C Ramchandra. Four songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 5th song, ‘ghata ghir ghir ke chhaai hai’ rendered by Lata Mangeshkar and Chorus. The song is picturised on Ameeta as a stage show along with other dancers one of which I recognise as Heera Sawant. Among the audience, Raj Mehra can be seen.
Few words from the song, both in video and audio clips available online are missing despite the fact that the audio clip has been uploaded by SAREGAMA, probably using the defective soundtrack from the film. I was looking for the audio clip which was ripped off from 78 RPM gramophone record. After some searches, I have got the mp3 clip of the full song from Professor Surjit Singh’s website based on which I have made an audio clip, the link of which has been given below.
Audio Clip:
Video Clip:
Song-Ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai (Talaash)(1957) Singer-Lata, Lyricist-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
Female chorus
Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip):
ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
to phir barsaat bhee hogee
ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
to phir barsaat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
jawaanee aa gayee to dil se dil kee baat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
bahut ghabra rahaa hai dil
ladakpan jaanewaala hai
bahut ghabra rahaa hai dil
ladakpan jaanewaala hai
jawaanee kaa wo toofaanee zamaana aanewaala hai
jawaanee kaa wo toofaanee zamaana aanewaala hai
jo aata hai to aane do
mohabbat ko muskuraane do
mohabbat kaa jo din aaya
to peechhe raat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
to phir barsaat bhee hogee
jawaanee aa gayee to dil se dil kee baat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
bachaayen kis tarah dil ko
mohabbat ke jhamele se
bachaayen kis tarah dil ko
mohabbat ke jhamele se
bina takraaye kab koi
bhala niklaa hai mele se
bina takraaye kab koi
bhala niklaa hai mele se
agar seene mein ik dil hai
nikalna bach ke mushkil hai
khabar kyaa hamen ulfat mein
aisee baat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
to phir barsaat bhee hogee
ghata ghir ghir ke chhaayee hai
to phir barsaat bhee hogee
jawaanee aa gayee to dil se dil kee baat bhee hogee
jee haan hogee
jee haan hogee
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