We are presenting a series of rare photos of Geeta Dutt ji collected from various online resources. Some of the family photographs were shared by Geeta ji’s son Shri Arun Dutt ji. We are highly grateful to him for this kind gesture.
1) Meena Kapoor, Geeta Roy & Talat Mahmood with Van Shipley, whose guitar strains we hear in ‘Mera Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya’
2) Geeta Dutt attending the Laxmi pooja at Hemant Kumar’s house
3) Geeta Dutt with some unknown family members
4) This may have been clicked in 1950-51 during the recording sessions of “Brindabone Shyam Nai” and “Rajani Pohalo Sakhi” – I feel so as we see Pabitra Mitra, the lyricist of both the songs, towards Geetaji’s right and towards the extreme left of the photograph, Kirtan artiste Nilima Banerjee. Maybe she was there as Sudhirlal Chakraborty’s (the composers) assistant in training Geetaji for these two Kirtan-based compositions.
5) Geeta Dutt with Hemant Kumar and Guru Dutt during recording of a song for the film Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam.
6) Geeta Dutt at Tarun’s birthday party
7) Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi during a recording
8) Geeta Dutt surrounded by her fans
9) Geeta Dutt and Guru Dutt celebrating Tarun’s birthday
10) Geeta Dutt
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12) Geeta Dutt
13) Geeta Dutt with her son
14) Geeta Dutt in a musical live performance
15) Geeta Dutt in a musical live performance
16) Geeta Dutt with Pandit Pannalal Ghosh
17) Suman Kalyanpur, Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi and Shailendra during a recording
18) Geeta and Guru Dutt at a birthday party
19) Geeta Dutt with her daughter Neena in her lap
20) Geeta Dutt Gujrati Non-film songs EP cover
21) Geeta Dutt reading a book
22) Geeta Dutt with her father
23) Geeta Dutt at Sangeet Kala Mandir in Kolkata
24) Zohrajaan Ambalewali, Geeta and Lata
25) In Kolkata, during the music making of ‘Ratnadeep’ (1952)
26) Geetaji with – (sitting from left) Rafi Sahab, Ranu Mukherjee, Ila Chakraborty (Bose), (standing from left) Manabendra Mukherjee, Pabitra Mitra, Nirmalendu Chowdhury, Raj Kapoor & Hemanta Mukherjee… Courtesy – Sri Susanta Kumar Chatterjee.
27) Famous actor Motilal congratulating Guru Dutt and Geeta at their reception
28) L to R, Roma Datta Roy (Roma Aunty), Amiya Roy (Grand mother, Geeta Dutt’s mom ), Amrita (Roy) Bose (Baby Aunty), Geeta Dutt, probably Lokhi Aunty, (Don’t Know ?), Lalitha Lajmi (Lalli Aunty).
29) Geeta Dutt and Nalini Jayawant
30) Geeta Dutt and Nalini Jayawant
29) Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi at a recording
trulely amazing photos of geetaji. thank you for sharing this.
Golden Memoirs of our Golden age …Prayers for all. Beautiful people
In Photo No.4 standing behind Geeta Dutt. Animesh Bose (Sound recordist) and Sudhin Dasgupta.
Geeta Dutt’s one of the siblings Amrita Roy, casted in a bengali film. Can you recall the name of the film ?
Nostalgic photo of an exceptionally talented singer through various milestones in her life.
Geeta Dutt Ji will forever be missed. _/\_