Bollywood romantic comedy family drama, Maa Beta, directed by Lekhraj Bhakri was released in the year 1962 The movie starred Manoj Kumar and Ameeta in lead roles while Lalita pawar, Vijay Dutt, Manmohan Krishna, Leela Mishra, Tarun Bose, Nirupa Roy and I. S. Johar also played significant characters in the film. The hit evergreen music of the movie was directed by the music director Hemanta Mukherjee while the songs were beautifully sung by Lata Mangeshkar etc.

The movie starts with Sahay family. Ganga Sahay ( Tarun Bose ) is the elder one in the family. The other members in the family are Ganga’s wife, his younger brother, Bishan ( I. S. Johar ) and his wife, Krishnadevi. Ganga is dependent on Bishan and for this reason he and his wife always faces bad words from Bishen’s wife. Bishen and Krishna asks Ganga and his wife to leave the house. Ganag and his wife does so. Ganga then starts working on his own and soon he becomes a successful businessman.

Krishna is not happy with the success of ganga and therefore decides to seperate Ganga from his wife. She tries to create misunderstanding between the two but fails. She then mix a drug in Ganga’s drink which results in a severe accident of Ganga. Krishna then also abducts Ganga’s child, Rameshwar ( Manoj Kumar ) and gives it to her maid servant. She instructs her to drown the child in river. But the child somehow manage to survive. years later, Rameshwar is now a grown up guy and is in love with a beautiful girl named Reeta ( Ameeta ).

The songs of the movie are:

1. Mohabbat jisko kehte hain
2. Aji maine kaha
3. Vaah kaun se mushkil
4. Mann mera udhata
5. Bhagwan ki yeh lila