Rafi & Geeta Dutt - Tum Jo Hue Mere Humsafar - 12 O'Clock [1958]

"12 O'Clock" [1958] is an Indian Hindi film directed by Pramod Chakravorty.
Starring Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Shashikala, Rehman, Helen and Tun Tun.
Music is by O.P. Nayyar.
Lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri..............

Geetā Dutt (Born Geetā Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri) [November 23, 1930 July 20, 1972] was a prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi movies in the 1950s and 60s, and also a singer of modern Bengali songs.

Initially, Geeta was a singer known for singing bhajans and sad songs, but her renderings of composer S. D. Burman's jazzy musical scores in Bāzi in 1951 demonstrated a new facet of Geeta's singing. The sexiness in her voice and her easy adaptation to "western" tunes. From then on in the 1950s, Geeta was people's first choice for singing seductive songs and providing song accompaniments in dance clubs.

S.D. Burman recognized the magic in Geeta's voice through her songs in "Do Bhāi". He effectively used the Bengali lilt in her voice in movies like Devdās (1955) and Pyāsā (1957). The song "Aaj Saajan Mohe Ang Lagaa Lo" in "Pyasa" is a prime example of a Bengali keertan being presented in its Hindi version.

During Geeta's recording of songs for the movie Baazi, she met the movie's young and upcoming director, Guru Dutt. Their romance culminated in marriage on May 26, 1953....

In 1964, Guru Dutt died from a combination of alcohol and an overdose of sleeping pills. (His death was widely perceived as a suicide following two earlier attempts) Geeta then suffered a serious nervous breakdown, and also ran into financial problems. She tried to resume her singing career, cutting discs at Durgā Pujā, and giving stage shows................

Geeta died of cirrhosis of the liver on July 20, 1972............

Mohammed Rafi (Hindi: मोहम्मद रफ़ी, Urdu: محمد رفیع; December 24, 1924 July 31, 1980), often addressed as Rafi Sahib, was an Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades and is one of the most versatile male singers in the history of Indian cinema. Rafi sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada and Telugu. He also recorded English and Persian songs. He is primarily remembered, however, for his Hindi songs, which still remain very popular in India today and also among the Indian diaspora. He dominated the Bollywood music industry from the 1950s to the 1970s along with Mukesh, Manna Dey, and Kishore Kumar.

Between 1950 and 1970, Rafi was one of the most sought after singers in Bollywood.

In 1965, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Sri award.

Awards; * 2001 - Rafi was honored with the "best singer of the millennium" by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine in Mumbai on Jan 7, 2001.

Government Awards; * 15Th Aug 1947 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru given hug after his song * 1948 - Rafi received a silver medal from the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, on the first anniversary of the Indian Independence Day. * 1965 - he was honoured with the Padmashri by the Government of India.

National Film Awards; * 1968 - National Award for Best Male Playback Singer for Neel Kamal composed by Ravi Shankar. * 1977 - National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for "Kya Hua Tera Wada" song in the film Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin), composed by RD Burman, lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri............
[Wikipedia & IMDb]

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[vijaykumar1231000]

hi yuan:

this is one humdinger of a song-video; thanks for the upload; waheeda-ji in her younger days was such a beauty to make a man go berserk which is actually said to have happened to guru dutt !

yuan-ji you have brought so much joy to so many for so long that it is only fair that we ask you to share a picture of yours so we can get to know you!

[yuanyuanyuanyin]

@vijaykumar1231000 - With regard to the second part of the comment, my dear friend, thank you for your extremely kind words and I appreciate them very much.

I think many of my friends know me by THIS [profile] picture.

That is MY "trade mark" for more than 3 long years, I believe. LOL

Thank you for the suggestion and may God bless you.

[abemathew]

1953! Great song...loved it...thnx Yuan

[yuanyuanyuanyin]

@abemathew - You are most welcome, my dear friend.

[MeriAwazSunoo]

This song is superbly Great..

Tahnx 4 share

[yuanyuanyuanyin]

@MeriAwazSunoo - You are most welcome, my long time friend Asim.

[rbali9999]

good song 

[jasbongy]

Great,great ,great duet ,sung so brilliantlly by both legend singers.

Waheeda and Guru Dutt ji look so impressive w3ith their facial expressions.

Just beautiful lyrics and music.

Yuan ji, Thumbs Up for this great upload. With respect. Sarla.

[MeriAwazSunoo]

@yuanyuanyuanyin : -)