The lyrics to Dimana Kan Ku Cari Ganti (Where Can I Find Another) by P Ramlee
This song appears in the film "Ibu Mertuaku" (My Mother In-Law) (1962). This movie is about an ill-fated marriage between a struggling musician (Kassim Selamat - Ramlee) with an heiress (Sabariah Mansor - Sarimah). Her mother, thoroughly against it, disowns her and the couple move out of town. Money runs out for them soon enough and with his wife insisting that he not work as a musician at all, so that there could be reconciliation with her mother, he is forced to become a labourer. A few months later, she is pregnant and unable to bear poverty any longer, writes her mother and is taken home to give birth.
She delivers a boy. At once her mother sends a false telegram to Kassim stating that his wife and child are dead. Overcomed by grief, Kassim cries incessantly and after a few months, becomes blind. Living on charity, he soon starts to wander the streets.
One night, he falls asleep in front of a house of a lady whose adopted daughter has just lost her husband and is mourning. The mother takes him in and he counsels the heart-broken girl to not wallow in sorrow but to get on with her life. She sleeps and he sings the song, for himself and the girl ...
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NOTE: If you have the chance to watch only one P Ramlee movie, this should be it.
Listen to the other song in this movie: Jangan Tinggal Daku
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