Bangla Song By Geeta Dutt : Nishi Raat Banka Chand Aakashe

Geeta Dutt was born in 1930 into a rich zamindār's family as Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri in Faridpur, East Bengal now Bangladesh (former British India). In 1942, her parents shifted to an apartment in Dādar, Bombay (now Mumbai) when she was twelve. There, composer/music director Hanumān Prasād once overheard her singing casually, and, feeling impressed, he offered to impart her training in singing. He launched her in a chorus song in Bhakta Prahlād (1946), where she sang only two lines. But her rendering of those two lines stood out. The following year, she got a major assignment as a playback singer for Do Bhāi, and her renderings in that movie brought Geeta to the forefront as a top playback singer.

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 26 May 1953. Geeta went on to sing some of her best songs in his movies while continuing to sing in various other assignments as well.
Geeta and Guru Dutt had three children: Tarun (b. 1954), Arun (b. 1956), and Ninā (b. 1962).

In 1957, Guru Dutt launched a movie, "Gauri",' with Geeta as its singing star. It was to be India's first movie in Cinema scope, but the project was shelved after only a few days of shooting. By then, their marriage was on the rocks, Guru Dutt had got romantically involved with Waheedā Rehmān, and Geeta had taken to drinking. The breakup of their marriage affected Geeta's singing career.

In 1958, S.D. Burman had developed discord with Lata Mangeshkar as a playback singer, and he attempted to work with Geeta as the main singer of his compositions rather than the upcoming Asha Bhosle, who, he felt, was relatively raw. However, out of her personal problems, Geeta would not practice her art sufficiently, and failed to meet Burman's demanding standards. (He, and O.P. Nayyar too, then started to work with Asha and helped her blossom as a singer.)

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 after Waheeda refused to marry him.) 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. She also performed in a leading role in a Bengali movie, Bhadu Bharan (1967), and sang admirably for a movie, Anubhav (1971), which turned out to her final performance to the music of Kanu Roy.

She is supposed to have sung over 1200 songs in Hindi films. In addition she has also sung songs in many Indian regional languages including Marathi, Bengali, Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri and Punjabi.

Geeta Dutt died of cirrhosis of the liver on 20 July 1972(She was only 41 years then).

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[lalchai]

thanks a lot for such a gem of a song and above all for a such rare information on the great singer never knew she died of liver problem pls keep in touch best wishes always

[MrSohel10]

@lalchai thank you :)

[anilvora2000]

Great song by Geeta Dutt. Thanks for biography of her.

[MrSohel10]

@anilvora2000 most welcome!

[CryForCry]

What a tragic history!

[MrSohel10]

@CryForCry yup!

[raju43416]

This song I want to detected to my friend Nishit ..........

[AnnPatriciaPatrick]

@iajdani Exactly



[skylark304]

YOU KILLED THE BIRD AND ITS SONGS WITHOUT KNOWING THE SONGS WERE WRITTEN FOR YOU!

[iajdani]

Meena Kumari had exactly the same story.