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Geeta Dutt was born as Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri on November 23, 1930 in Bengal. She belonged to a rich family as they were Zamindars. She was one of the prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi movies in the 1950s and 60s. She was also a singer of modern Bengali songs. Her Father was Debendranath Ghosh Roychoudhury and her Mother was Amiya Devi. She was the tenth children of them. In 1942, her parents shifted to an apartment in Dadar, Bombay when she was twelve. There, composer/music director Hanuman Prasad once overheard her singing casually, and get impressed. He offered to impart her training in singing. He launched her in a chorus song in Bhakta Prahlad in 1946, where she sang only two lines. But her rendering of those two lines stood out and she got a major assignment as a playback singer for Do Bhai, and her renderings in that movie brought Geeta to the forefront as a top playback singer. During Geeta’s recording of songs for the movie Baazi, she met the movie’s young and upcoming director, Guru Dutt. Their romance culminated in marriage on May 26, 1953. Arun Dutt, Tarun Dutt and Neena were the three children of Geeta and Guru Dutt.

Geeta was a singer known for singing bhajans and sad songs, but her renderings of composer S. D. Burman’s jazzy musical scores in Bazi in 1951 demonstrated a new facet of Geeta’s singing, the sexiness in her voice and her easy adaptation to western tunes. Geeta was people’s first choice for singing seductive songs and providing song accompaniments in dance clubs. S.D. Burman recognized the magic in Geeta’s voice through her songs in Do Bhai. He effectively used the Bengali lilt in her voice in movies like Devdas in 1955 and Pyasa in 1957. The song Aj Sajan Mohe Ang Laga Lo in Pyasa is a prime example of a Bengali keertan being presented in its Hindi version.She, Shamshad Begum and Lata Mangeshkar were the premier female playback singers in the 1950s. According to some estimates she has sung for around 100 composers during her career. The third composer who gave her many hit songs was Hemant Kumar. Some other popular composers for whom she sang were Chitragupt, Bulo C Rani, Hansraj Behl, Husnlal-Bhagatram and Madan Mohan.

In 1958, S.D. Burman had developed discord with Lata Mangeshkar as a playback singer, and he attempted to work with Geeta as the main singer of his compositions rather than the upcoming Asha Bhosle, who, he felt, was relatively raw. However, out of her personal problems, Geeta would not practice her art sufficiently, and failed to meet Burman’s demanding standards. Acclaimed as the one singer who was feared by Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt held a rare mellifluous tone in her voice that could fuel passion and all kinds of emotions into whatever song she sung. This rare ability also enabled her to swap from traditional songs to Western-styled tunes without skipping a beat. When Lata Mangeshkar arrived as the new queen of melody, it was this fluid quality in her voice that kept her up in the playback industry. If it hadn’t been for her tragic relationship with the great director Guru Dutt, her genius would have shone on unclouded her entire life. She is supposed to have sung over 1200 songs in Hindi films. In addition she has also sung songs in many Indian regional languages including Marathi, Bengali, Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri and Punjabi. In 1964, Guru Dutt died from a combination of alcohol and an overdose of sleeping pills.His death was widely perceived as a suicide following two earlier attempts. Geeta then suffered a serious nervous breakdown, and also ran into financial problems. She tried to resume her singing career, cutting discs at Durga Puja, and giving stage shows. She also performed in a leading role in a Bengali movie, Bhadu Bharan in 1967, and sang admirably for a movie, Anubhav in 1971, which turned out to her final performance to the music of Kanu Roy. Geeta died of cirrhosis of the liver on July 20, 1972.

Some of the memorable songs are:-

1. Mera sundar sapna beet gaya - Do Bhai
2. Aan milo aan milo- Devdas
3. Zara saamne aa- Baaz
4. Babuji dhire chalna- Aar Paar
5 Thandi hawa kali ghata- Mr. & Mrs 55
6. Na Yeh Chand Hoga- Shart

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