Posts Tagged ‘Geeta Roy’
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Bulo C Rani must be probably one of the most talented yet the most unsung composer. We have a detailed write up about him on our main website here. All these days we were thinking that the last song by the Bulo C Rani – Geeta Dutt combo was from the year 1964 (a duet from Badshah Salamat and a quartet from Haqdaar). Only recently we discovered an extremely rare and lovely song of Geeta ji under the baton of Bulo C Rani sahab for the film Chhupa Rustom (1965). The song is “Ek dil thaa mera, joh teraa ho gaya”.
Read more on Discovery of a “Chhupa Rustom”…
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
As per the available information, young Geeta Roy sang her first song for the film Bhakt Prahlad(1946).
The composer was Pandit Hanuman Prasad. Not much is known about the composer Pandit Hanuman Prasad except that he was married to the famous actress Lalita Pawar and the fact that he discovered the singing talent of young Geeta Roy (who later on became Geeta Dutt after marrying Guru Dutt). If any one has more info on him do post it.
Read more on The debut..which one is it?…
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Not many music lovers are aware of the fact that Geeta Dutt has sung close to a hundred songs in Gujrati. Her association with Gujrati film (and some non-film music) is not as prolific as with the Hindi film songs. Still it is a fact that she has sung more songs in Gujrati as compared to her mother tongue Bengali. She was the number one playback singer for Gujrati films for 3-4 years and many of the films starring Nirupa Roy had songs by Geeta Roy, many of which had music composed by the great Avinash Vyas. The reason behind this is that the Gujrati films were being made in Mumbai (then Bombay) and young Geeta Roy was a favorite singer of composer Avinash Vyas.Young Geeta was extremely talented and very good at picking up new languages. She must have picked up Hindi, Gujrati and Marathi during the initial years
of struggling life in Mumbai before getting the break in the year 1946. This part is described very aptly and in great details in the book “Geeta Dutt : The Skylark” written by Haimanti Banerjee.
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Hundreds of articles, several books, probably thousands of webpages must have been written about Raj Kapoor, the first (and truly the last ?) “Showman” of Hindi films. The media has given so much exposure to his popular films that it seems like there existed nothing beyond Raj Kapoor, his hit films and of course “Superhit” music provided by his favorite composer duo Shanker and Jaikishen. The songs aired on Vividh Bharati for last few generations, the songs shown on Doordarshan and other private TV channels and the documentaries made on the legendary actor cum film-maker has proved it over and over again. We are forced to believe that nothing existed before or beyond this as far as Raj Kapoor is considered.
Read more on Chalk and Cheese? (Part-1)…
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