Life line of a rupee

Yesteryear humourist Mehmood was more than symbolic when he crooned 'Na Biwi na bachcha na baap bada na maiyya / The whole thing is that ki bhaiyya sabse bada ruppaiya' in the 1976 movie Sabse Bada Rupaiya. The movie, released a few years after a politically controversial move to devalue the rupee in the mid-sixties, mirrored the inescapable importance of the currency note in India's socio-economic milieu.

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