Anilda has been a veteran composer since the early forties and gave timeless music for many films including the blockbuster Kismat starring Ashok Kumar. He composed excellent melodies for Lata ji and Talat sahab. Some of his songs were sung by his favorite singer and wife Meena Kapoor ji. Geeta Dutt has sung very few songs with this veteran music director, but whatever she has sung for him represents the very best of hindi film music. Unfortunately as most of these songs are very rare, the combo is rarely discussed in the way her songs with S D Burman, O P Nayyar or Hemant Kumar.

She sang for him as early as 1946 (the year she made debut with songs from Bhakta Pralhad and Circus Kings) for the film Milan. The next year, there is a free-flowing happy duet of Geeta “Yeh haseenon ke mele albele” with Shamshad Beghum in Bhookh (1947). There were two sad solos of her in this film, "Aankh mein kyon ashq" and "Is jag mein gareebon ka nahin koi thikana". And then melody queen Lata ji arrived and Anilda dedicated most of his songs from the late forties to early fifties to Lata ji (and some to his wife Meena Kapoor). Six years later, we have Geeta Dutt singing "Aa sapne tujhe bulaaye aa jaa". It’s a breezy song sung so