We keep searching for rare and lesser heard gems of Geeta ji and on the eve of her 85th Birth anniversary we are pleased to share some rare gems. We will be posting five songs per each post. All of these have been collected from various sources over several years of painstaking efforts. We are grateful to our dear friend Aditya Pant for sharing these extremely rare songs with us. This is the sixth part in this series.
1) Geeta Dutt, G M Durrani, Meena Kapoor – O rani mainawati..Dil ko chhod ke chalo – Ghayal (1951), MD- Gyan Dutt, Lyrics – Saraswati Kumar Deepak.
This is another rare song from Ghayal (1951)
2) Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi – Soyi hamaare spanon ki duniya – Aadhi Roti (1957), MD- Avinash Vyas, Lyrics – Pandit Bharat Vyas.
Geeta sang about 54 songs in Gujrati and 51 songs in Hindi for Avinash Vyas, making him the composer with most songs for her. This is another lovely rare song sung by Geeta ji and Rafi sahab.
3) Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi, Usha Mangeshkar – Sukhi nahin woh..bhaiya kaam karo – Baalyogi Upamanyu (1958) – MD – Chitragupt, Lyrics: Pandit Bharat Vyas.
Among all the Hindi film composers she sang for, her most songs are with Chitragupta, the number is close to a hundred. Enjoy this rare trio of Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi and Usha Mangeshkar.
4) Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi – Tore bin raaja mohe – Pujya Gandhiji (Unreleased), MD- Harindra Nath Nandy, Lyrics: J S Kashyap.
This is a rare song from an un-released film from the fifties.
5) Geeta Dutt: Yeh Khamoshi kyun – Hamare Gham Se Mat Khelo (1967), MD- Jaidev, Lyrics – Buta Ram Sharma.
This is the only song Geeta ji sang for composer Jaidev ji in Hindi films. We were searching for a good quality audio of this song for quite some time.