Golden Era of Bollywood: GEETA DUTT-The Perfact Voice,Be it a Bhajan or a Western cabaret pictured on Helen

Thursday, 20 July 2017

GEETA DUTT-The Perfact Voice,Be it a Bhajan or a Western cabaret pictured on Helen

The 50s was the golden period of Geeta Dutt singing career. She sang some of her biggest hits during this period. Aaj sajan mohe ang lagalo, Thandi hawa, kali ghata, Ja Ja bewafa and her popular duets like Ankhon hi ankhon mein, Jaane kahan mera jigar gaya ji, Aan milo shyam saaware, etc -- all belong to this period.She was equally perfact in Bhajans as well as Jazzy musical songs.My Tribute to Geeta Dutt on her 45th Death Anniversary.
She made her debut in his mythological film Bhakta Prahlad.It was in 1947 that Geeta Dutt who was Geeta Roy got to fame with the musical success of Do Bhai, which was also music director SD Burman's first major breakthrough. The song "Mera Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya."became very popular,its still remembered today.

In the film Baazi, (starred by Dev Anand and Geeta Bali) Dev Anand employed Guru Dutt as the director of the film production, in which Geeta Roy sang an immortal and emotional number, “Tadbeer se bigadi hui”. Guru Dutt instantly fell in love with her by hearing this song.
Geeta Roy and Guru Dutt got married in 1953, though both the households had reservations of this union.Guru Dutt produced some classic films around this time and the female voice for his films was always Geeta Dutt. All her songs were massive hits. They had a happy married life initially and three children were born in quick succession (Tarun, Arun and Nina).

By 1957, their marriage had run into rough weather due to Guru Dutt’s alleged love affair with his leading actress Waheeda Rehman.
Guru Dutt broke with Geeta Dutt for the sake of Waheeda Rehman. Waheeda never reciprocated her love to Guru Dutt since he was a married man with children. Moreover, she respected him as a Great artist and nothing else. At this juncture, it is hard to imagine Guru Dutt’s state of mind. He was caught between two situations. Breaking up with his wife and not getting attention from Waheeda. Finally, Guru Dutt found the easy way out. He apparently committed suicide on October 10th 1964
After Guru Dutt’s death, Geeta’s life was a mess. Geeta was a broken woman. She tried to resume her singing career. But Asha Bhonsle had already overtaken her.Geeta Dutt started drowning her woes in alcohol. Her health kept failing as she drank more and more alcoholic drinks..ultimately she died on July 20th 1972 due to cirrhosis of lever at a tender age of 42.
Geeta Dutt was a brilliant playback singer of Hindi films, strikingly beautiful with dreamy almond eyes, who left us nearly 45 years ago. Despite possessing a rich voice, her career was heavily marred by bad luck and an unhappy marriage.

Mera Sundar Sapna Bit Gaya