Journey through pictures

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’
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2) Geeta Dutt attending the Laxmi pooja at Hemant Kumar’s house

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3) Geeta Dutt with some unknown family members

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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.

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5) Geeta Dutt with Hemant Kumar and Guru Dutt during recording of a song for the film Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam.
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6) Geeta Dutt at Tarun’s birthday party

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7) Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi during a recording

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8) Geeta Dutt surrounded by her fans

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9) Geeta Dutt and Guru Dutt celebrating Tarun’s birthday

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10) Geeta Dutt
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11) Geeta Dutt
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12) Geeta Dutt

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13) Geeta Dutt with her son
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14) Geeta Dutt in a musical live performance

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15) Geeta Dutt in a musical live performance

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16) Geeta Dutt with Pandit Pannalal Ghosh

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17) Suman Kalyanpur, Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi and Shailendra during a recording

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18) Geeta and Guru Dutt at a birthday party

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19) Geeta Dutt with her daughter Neena in her lap

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20) Geeta Dutt Gujrati Non-film songs EP cover

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21) Geeta Dutt reading a book

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22) Geeta Dutt with her father

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23) Geeta Dutt at Sangeet Kala Mandir in Kolkata

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24) Zohrajaan Ambalewali, Geeta and Lata

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25) In Kolkata, during the music making of ‘Ratnadeep’ (1952)
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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.

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27) Famous actor Motilal congratulating Guru Dutt and Geeta at their reception

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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).

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29) Geeta Dutt and Nalini Jayawant

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30) Geeta Dutt and Nalini Jayawant

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29) Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi at a recording

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5 Responses to “Journey through pictures”

  1. vijay p vaishampayan says:

    trulely amazing photos of geetaji. thank you for sharing this.

  2. Sabbir says:

    Golden Memoirs of our Golden age …Prayers for all. Beautiful people

  3. Gautam Banejee says:

    In Photo No.4 standing behind Geeta Dutt. Animesh Bose (Sound recordist) and Sudhin Dasgupta.

  4. Ajoy De says:

    Geeta Dutt’s one of the siblings Amrita Roy, casted in a bengali film. Can you recall the name of the film ?

  5. Raji says:

    Nostalgic photo of an exceptionally talented singer through various milestones in her life.
    Geeta Dutt Ji will forever be missed. _/\_

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