Ghar Basake Dekho (Start A Family) is a 1963 Hindi family drama film, directed by Kishore Sahu. The film was produced by Trikambhai Dave and Bal Chander Shukla for Ratandeep Pictures, with music composed by Chitragupta and lyrics written by Rajendra Krishan.

Plot

Kamal Mehra lives in a village with his mother Shanta and younger sister, Sharda. They are poor and his mother has to mortgage her house in the village in order to send Kamal to Bombay for higher education. She expects him to pay off the mortgage debt once he gets a job. When Kamal gets a job, he court-marries Mona and then they visit his family in village, revealing there that they got married. Mona considers herself too modern for the village and gets bored there and soon enough both of them leaves for Bombay. When Kamal returns to his city life, he eventually stops sending money to his village family due to his increasing expenditures. Sometime late, Shanta and Sharda are called to Bombay by Mona who writes a false letter mentioning Kamal is not well. In city, both Shanta and Sharda are ill-treated by Mona. Owing to her spendthrift habits, Mona depletes all earnings and savings of Kamal. One day, when Kamal goes on office work to Pune, Mona fights with Shanta and Sharda following which both of them leave the house to return to their village.