Jhoothhe balmaa ka baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
Posted by: Atul on: May 21, 2026
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‘Shrimaanji’ (1968) was produced and directed by Ram Dayal under his banner, Mukul Enterprises. The cast included Kishore Kumar, I S Johar, Jeevan, Asha Nadkarni, Meena Rai, Shahida, Asit Sen, Wasti, Murad, Ram Kamlani, Hiralal, Neelam, W M Khan, Veena, Madhumati, Sharifa etc.
With Kishore Kumar and I S Johar in the main roles, apparently, the film belongs to comedy genre. However, the first 30 minutes of the film is melodramatic. It is only when the two protagonists turn to their adulthoods, the story gets switched over to comedy until the last about 30 minutes when the story turns into a murder and court room drama. There is no actress in the lead role in the film.
The story of the film is as under:
The story start in the year is 1942. Advocate M.L. Gupta (Wasti) lives with his wife Maya (Veena) in a palatial house in South Bombay (Mumbai). One day, Gupta travels to Calcutta (Kolkata) to represent one of his clients in the court. However, during an air raid by Japanese aircrafts, Gupta runs to take shelter when he finds himself in the house of a prostitute, Panna (Asha Nadkarni) who seduces him, forcing him to spend the night in her house.
After finishing his work in Kolkata, Gupta returns home and forgets about his one-night stand in Kolkata. After few months, Maya gives birth to a male child, Johar. Four years have passed after the birth of Johar. In the meanwhile, Panna has come to Mumbai with her male child, Kishore born to her with Gupta and she has taken a shelter in Jeevanlal’s (Jeevan) house who is a blackmailer. Fearing the child will be spoiled in the company of Jeevanlal, Panna sends the child with a letter in Gupta’s house. The letter is read by Maya which reveals that Kishore is the child of Gupta. In order to keep this development secret so that her husband’s reputation is not at stake, Maya tells her husband that she has adopted her sister’s son, Kishore because her husband has deserted her sister. Soon the secret is out when Jeevanlal visits Maya and blackmails her. Gupta hears all their conversations and suspecting that his wife has an affair, he expels her from the house. Johar enquires his father as to the whereabouts his mother. Fed-up with the constant pestering from Johar, Gupta sends him to the USA for his schooling where he continues his higher studies to become a lawyer against his wish.
The story takes a time jump of 20 year. Johar is returning from the USA after completing his studies. Gupta is shocked to see Johar who has become a sadhu. He speaks in pure Hindi with his father and does not like him to use words from any other languages. (Reminds me of Dharmendra disguised as driver who speaks in pure Hindi which Om Prakash is unable to decipher in ‘Chupke Chupke, 1975). Gupta decides to hire a fashion consultant from Poona (Pune) to make over Johar to a normal looking modern man. The fashion consultant happens to be Kishore to whom Veena had taken with him when she was expelled from Gupta’s house. Kishore stays with Gupta in Mumbai and soon finds that Johar has deliberately disguised as Sadhu to teach his father a lesson for depriving him of his mother’s love during his childhood. Both become friends. Simultaneously, Johar has been following with a private agent to locate his mother, Maya.
During the course of their disguised avatars, Kishore and Johar have been wooing Asha (Shahida), daughter of Champaklal (Asit Sen) and Lata (Meena Rai), the daughter of Jeevanlal, respectively. Lata falls in love with Johar and wants to marry him. But before that she wants to take the blessings from Sadhu Shrimaanji who is in reality is Johar. Somehow, Kishore manages to save Johar from his duplicity. However, Jeevanlal is against his daughter Lata marrying Johar. So, both Johar and Lata elope to Pune and get married.
During this period, Johar visits Kishore’s house in Pune with Lata and gets introduced to Maya as Kishore’s mother and he introduces Lata as his wife. While Maya recognises Johar as his son but is afraid to reveal so because of Kishore. In the meanwhile, in a restaurant, Jeevanlal sees Lata with Johar who tells him that he has just married Lata. A furious Jeevanlal forcibly takes Lata to his house and locks her in the room. Maya visits Jeevanlal’s house and plead for releasing Lata to join her husband, Johar but in vein. In frustration, Maya takes the gun lying on the table and fires on Jeevanlal who falls down. Maya is arrested for killing Jeevanlal.
In the court, Johar represents Maya though she has already admitted killing Jeevanlal in the court. In spite of Johar pleading with Maya to give him the background as to how she knew Jeevanlal. But she declines to reveal anything on this matter. While the case is now heavily loaded against Maya as even Lata, as a witness. has said that she has seen Maya firing from the gun at her father. However, browsing through a series of photographs taken by the police while making an inquest, Johar gets an impression of some mishandling of the dead body giving suspicion as to whether Jeevanlal has really dies of bullets.
Johar and Kishore visits Morgue to check the dead body and finds Jeevanlal body but in hale and hearty condition. So, his killing was staged. But how to get him in the court to present as a proof of he being alive is a problem lest he will escape. Panna, the courtesan has a strategy as she knows that he is fond of attending courtesan’s dance. After he dance, Panna meets a drunk Jeevanlal who spills the beans during their conversations. Police arrest Jeevanlal and present him in the court at the next hearing of Maya’s case. The judge (Murad) acquits Maya and sends Jeevanlal in police custody.
During the court hearing, Gupta comes to know that Kishore is his son from Panna. His wife, Maya projected Kishore as her adopted son to protect him from slander, Gupta family unites.
The film had six songs written by Aziz Kashmiri (4) and S H Bihari (2) which were set to music by O P Nayyar. Four songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 5th song, ‘joothhe balmaa kaa baabooji pyaar jhoothha’ rendered by Asha Bhosle and Kamal Barot. Asha Bhosle sings for both Asha Nadkarni and the dancer, Madhumati while Kamal Barot joins in duet for another dancer I am not able to identify. The song is written by S H Bihari.
The context of the song is that Maya (Veena) has been arrested for killing of the blackmailer, Jeevanlal (Jeevan) and Johar (I S Johar) is representing her as a defence lawyer. Somehow, Johar feels something fishy in the inquest report. He and Kishore visit the morgue in disguise and find that Jeevanlal is in morgue but he is alive. Courtesan Panna (Asha Nadkarni) who was staying with Jeevanlal for some time when she shifted to Mumbai to hand over Kishore to Gupta. Maaya knows that he is fond of courtesan’s dance. So, she arranges her dance and Jeevanlal does come to witness it. After the dance, Panna meets a fully drunk Jeevanlal who spills the beans that it was a fake killing of him.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Jhoothhe balma ka baaboojee pyaar jhhoothhaa (Shrimaanji)(1968) Singers-Asha Bhosle, Asha Bhosle+Kamal Barot, Lyricist-S H Bihari, MD-O P Nayyar
Lyrics (Based on the Video Clip):
aa…j phir baandha hai ghunghroo
paanv mein barson ke baad
aaj phir har zakhm-e-dil
taaza huaa aa aa barson ke baaaad
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
ye raat maine sajaai hai aap ke khaatir
jawaanee laut ke aayee hai aap ke khaatir
ye raat maine sajaai hai aap kee khaatir
jawaanee laut ke aayee hai aap kee khaatir
bujhe huye hain ummeedon ke sab charaag magar
wafaa kee shamaa jalaai hai aap kee khaatir
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
abhee kuchh aur nazar mein shabaab baakee hai
abhee sawaal kaa mere jawaab baakee hai
abhee kuchh aur nazar mein shabaab baakee hai
abhee sawaal kaa mere jawaab baakee hai
jab aa hee gaye ho to aao faislaa kar len
tumhaare paas puraana hisaab baakee hai
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
isee kaaran to julmee se dil toota
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
jhhoothhe balmaa kaa baaboojee pyaar jhhoothha
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May 21, 2026 at 9:06 pm
with Madhumati another dancer is Sushma aka Sushama shiromanee (Marathi actress ?)producer, director etc
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May 21, 2026 at 9:39 pm
Thanks for the identification. Sushma Shiromani’s name does not appear in the credit titles. So I could not even make a guess.
Sushma Shiromani is a well known actor, producer-director-writer of many Marathi films. She has also worked in many Hindi films in supporting roles.
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