Sukhilala agar kutta bhi paalega, uske gale me.n sone kee zanjeer Daalegaa

Film : Mother India

Year of release : 1957

Spoken by : Sukhi Lala (Kanhaiya Lal)

Spoken to : Radha (Nargis)

Dialogue writer : Wajahat Mirza, S Ali Raza

After Radha's husband Shamu leaves the village, she has to bear the burden of her large family. The village money lender Sukhilala comes and propositions her. He offers to give back her land, bullocks and waive off the loan, but Radha refuses. She says 

"radha ke daam na lagaao laala, raadha marte dam tak izzat kaa saudaa nahee.n karegii"

She hopes things will become better after the crops are harvested. But the crops and the entire village is devastated in floods. Yet the moneylender comes back to recover his loan 'after the crops'. 

He comes with 'chana' for the kids to eat. Read this great dialogue here.

He again propositions her, she refuses again. After he leaves, her younger son Birju passes out due to exhaustion and hunger.As she is sitting there wondering what to do, a  delirious birju keeps repeating

"lala ke paas bahut khaana hai" 

She can't bear it anymore. She runs to Sukhilala's house.

He welcomes her. 

In a symbolic shot, she wipes the vermilion and tears off the 'mangal sutra' and 'suhaag kaa chooDa' (marital bangles) and begs Sukhilala for food. The look on Kanhaiyyalaal's face is worth a million dollars.

As an aside, there was a telefilm called Vishwas starring Sadashiv Amrapurkar as hero and Priya Tendulkar as heroine. The film was set among tribals in a forest. In a similar situation a young tribal girl goes to the contractor's house and says "Babu mai.n sone aayi". We had a boy called Babu in our class. Oh how we teased him the next day. Those were the days when it was a given that the entire class would have seen the film on Doordarshan, even for a boring telefilm like Vishwaas. 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sukhi Lala says

"samajh gayaa samajh gayaa.

gale to kyaa paao.n tak sona pahnaaye.nge laala apni radha ko, bhagwaan kripaa se

chintaa na karo rani, dayaalu kaa jo haath pakDegaa woh sadaa sukhee rahegaa. sukhilala agar kutta bhi paalenge, uske gale me.n sone kee zanjeer Daalenge. sone kii. 

"सुखीलाला अगर कुत्ता भी पालेंगे, उसके गले में सोने की ज़ंजीर डालेंगे...सोने की"

He puts a gold chain in her neck as he says the last line. 

This line hit me while I was working for a company that paid a lot of money but sucked the life blood out of you otherwise. :)

tujhe maa chaahiye yaa chane

Film : Mother India

Year of release : 1957

Spoken by : Radha (Nargis)

Spoken to : Little Birju (Master Sajid)

After a flood in the village, Radha and her kids don't have anything to eat. The village moneylender Sukhilala (Kanhaiyyalal) is trying to sleep with Radha and is using food for her kids as the bait. In this scene, the 'Mother India' factor surfaces. He goes to the hut where the mother and her kids are cooped up. He tries to bribe the kids with some channa (gram). Here is the exchange

Sukhilala: khaanaa pak gayaa beTaa... pak gayaa...raam raam raam are ye kaisaa julam kar rahee ho tum chhoTe chhoTe bachchoN par. kyaa karooN meraa man hee aisaa hai ki kisee kaa dukh naheeN dekhaa jaataa. le beTaa. khaa le.

खाना पक गया बेटा...पक गया...राम राम राम,.. अरे ये कैसा जुलम कर रही हो तुम छोटे छोटे बच्चों पर. क्या करूं मेरा मन ही ऐसा है कि किसी का दुख नहीं देखा जाता. ले बेटा. खा ले.

Radha : phenk de chane ramu. phenk de

फेंक दे चने रामू. फेंक दे

Sukhilala: are tu kaisee maa ho radha. khaa le (as he feeds the younger son birju). shaabaash. is haath meN bhee le (stuffs some more food into the other hand as he sees a hungry birju accepting food and eating it)

अरे तू कैसी मा हो राधा. खा ले. शाबाश. इस हाथ में भी ले.

Radha : birju phenk de chane. phenk de... birju, tujhe maa chaahiye yaa chane.

बिरजू फेंक दे चने...फेंक दे...बिरजू, तुझे माँ चाहिये या चने.

At this Birjoo throws away the food and spits out what he was eating on Sukhilala's face.

Sukhilala : aay haay maa bete sabab sayaane . sabere tak tabeeyat thikaane ho jaayegee

True to his words, just as he leaves Birju collapses due to hunger. Eventually this forces a distraught Radha to go back to Sukhilala. But we will come to that some other time.

I do think however, if you use this line with a modern day kid, he is going to go for the 'chane' and not the 'ma'.