GEETA DUTT
Geeta Roy was born in 1930 at Faridpur,East Bangal.Her father was a Zamindaar.When she was just 12,her parents shifted to Bombay now known as Mumbai.Geeta got her music training from the composer Hanuman Prrasad [1946].She had two lines to sing but that was enough to change her destiny.She sang two lines in two songs of the film”Ab Jani Re Pehchani re” and “Suno Suno Vintee hamari”.
S.D.Burman liked her voice and offered her a solo in “Do Bhai”.the music of that film clicked in a big way.The biggest hit of the film was “Mera Sundar Sapna Beet
Only two singer manage to survive the LATA onslaught in the 1950s.they were Geeta Roy and Shamshad Begam.After the release of film “BAAZI” in 1951,Geeta’s image was totally changed in the Industry,and from then the image of a devotional singer had changed to a singer who can sing any type of song.
BAAZI also gave a new turn to her life,as on that very time she met with Guru Dutt,the director of that movie,they both fell in love which turned into their marriage on 26 May 1953 and had three children Tarun and Arun and a daughter Nina.Geeta went on to sing some of her best songs in her husband’s films while continuing singing in various outside assignments as well.
Guru Dutt’s liaison with Waheeda Rehman and Geeta’s refusal to work in his pet project Gouri,along with his apparent refusal to let Geeta work on outside projects broke the marriage.To quieten down Guru Dutt launched a film Gouri(1957)with her in the lead.She was to be launched as a singing star and it was to be India’s first film in cinemascope but the film was shelved after just a few days shooting.This was the time when one heard complaints from music directors about her not being easily available for either rehearsals or recordings.She neglected her riaz.And to make things worse both of them took drinking heavily.Prior to their last attempt to reconcile,Guru Dutt committed suicide on October 10,1964.
Geeta was a broken women,shattered by his death.She now had neither her singing nor her husband.Geeta suffered a nervous breakdown.when she recovered she found herself in a financial mess.She did try to resume singing again,cutting discs at Durga Puja and giving stage shows,even doing a Bengali film,Badhu Bharan(1967) as heroine! But her health kept failing as she drank herself to a point of no return.She died of Cirrhosis of the liver on
Geeta sung about a thousand Hindi Songs on the composition of most of the music director of her time.Her songs include solos,duets as well as chorus.She sang for about 500 flims.
Best Of Geeta Dutt Songs:
SONGs MOVIE
- Tadbir se bigdi hui taqdeer - Baazi
- Babuji dhire chalna - Aar Paar
- Mera naam chin chin choo -
- Jane kya tunhe kahi - Pyaasa
- Ae dil mujhe bata de - Bhai Bhai
- Waqt ne kiya kya hanseen sitam - Kaagaz Ke Phool
- Na jaan saiyaan chuda ke baiyaan - Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam
