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'''''Pyar Kiye Jaa''''' ({{translation|Carry on Loving}}) is a 1966 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[C. V. Sridhar]] starring [[Kishore Kumar]], [[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]], [[Om Prakash]], [[Mumtaz (actress)|Mumtaz]], [[Kalpana Mohan|Kalpana]] and [[Rajasree]]. It was a "semi-hit" at the box office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=172&catName=MTk2Ng== |title=Box Office 1966 |publisher=Boxofficeindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922021807/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=172&catName=MTk2Ng%3D%3D |archive-date=22 September 2012 }}</ref> The film is a remake of the Tamil comedy ''[[Kadhalikka Neramillai]]'' (1964), which was remade into [[Telugu language|Telugu]] as ''[[Preminchi Choodu]]'' in 1965. Actress [[Rajasree]] starred in all three versions of the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/03/17/stories/2006031700100200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113060952/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/03/17/stories/2006031700100200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 November 2007 |title=Away from the arc lights |author=Malathi Rangarajan |page=Friday Review |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=17 March 2006}}</ref> ''Kadhalikka Neramillai'' was also later remade in Kannada as ''[[Preethi Madu Thamashe Nodu]]''{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} and in Marathi as ''[[Dhoom Dhadaka]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/marathi/movies/photofeatures/laxmikant-berde-superhit-comedy-films-of-the-actor-you-should-not-miss/ashi-hi-banwa-banwi/photostory/63415256.cms |title='Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi' - Laxmikant Berde: Superhit comedy films of the actor you should not miss}}</ref> The role played by [[Nagesh]] in the Tamil version was reprised by [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]] in the Hindi version and by [[Dwarakish]] in the Kannada version.

Widower Ramlal lives a wealthy lifestyle near [[Pune|Poona]], India along with two daughters and a son. His daughter, Malti, is a Science graduate; Nirmala, a matriculate, and the son, Atma, who wants his father to finance a Hindi film, which he himself will produce under the banner of "Wah Wah Productions", he even signs up a nubile and sexy Meena Priyadarshini, the daughter of Ramlal's Estate Manager, to play the female lead role. Ramlal would like to get his daughters married to families that are wealthier than him. He hires an Assistant Manager, Ashok Verma, to look after his estate, but fires him when he finds out that he has misbehaved with his daughters. Ashok protests by putting up a tent in Ramlal's front-yard. Then Shyam friend of Ashok in disguise of elderly male comes to visit Ramlal, he identifies himself as Rai Bahadur Ganga Prasad, claims he is very wealthy, and the estranged father of Ashok. Ramlal seizes this opportunity and asks Rai Bahadur to get Ashok to marry one of his daughters. Ashok and his father reconcile, and Ashok decides to marry Nirmala. Then Ramlal gets another visitor, a wealthy elderly male by the name of Devraj, who knew Ramlal during his school-days. Ramlal and Devraj talk about old times, and end up fixing up the marriage of Malti with Devraj's son Shyam. Ramlal introduces Devraj to Rai Bahadur and starts preparations for both marriages&nbsp;– little knowing that soon he will find out that Devraj's son has gone missing, perhaps refusing to marry someone his father has chosen for him; Devraj learns that Ashok is actually the son of a poor schoolteacher and reveals to Ramlal that Rai Bahadur is a fraud, Ashok and Shyam are arrested by the police for cheating Ramlal, resulting a chaos, but finally all things and misunderstandings are cleared up and they live happily ever after.

All the songs<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hindigeetmala.net/movie/pyar_kiye_ja.htm |title=Pyar Kiye Ja : Lyrics and video of Songs from the Movie Pyar Kiye Ja (1966)}}</ref> were composed by [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] and lyrics were penned by [[Rajendra Krishan]].