Geeta Dutt (November 23 1930 - July 20 1972) was an Indian playback singer.

Geeta Dutt was born into a rich zamindaar's family as Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri in Faridpur, East Bengal in 1930. In 1942, her parents shifted to a Dadar apartment in Bombay when she was twelve. Over there in their modest flat at Dadar, composer/music director Hanuman Prasad, overheard her singing casually and agreed to impart her training in singing. He launched her in a chorus song in Bhakht Prahlad (1946), where she sang only two lines. But her rendering of those two lines stood out and astonished everybody in the recording studio. Her major assignment was in the following year with Do Bhai. The music of that film clicked in a big way and Geeta became a top playback singer. 1947 - 1949 saw Geeta as the number one playback singer in the Bombay film industry as she moved from strength to strength. Only two playback singers managed to survive Lata's onslaught in the 1950s. They were Shamshad Begum and Geeta Roy. Though relegated to the second spot, Geeta managed to hold her own against Lata for more than a decade, and she and Lata became the premier female playback singers of the 1950s.

Initially, Geeta was a singer well known for singing bhajans and weepy, sad songs, but 1951 saw the release of Baazi. The jazzy musical score of the film by SD Burman created a new facet in Geeta's singing. The sex appeal in her voice and the ease with which she went western was marvelous to behold. From then on in the 1950s for a club dance and a seductive song, was the first choice was Geeta. During the recording of a song, she met the young and upcoming director of the film, Guru Dutt. Thus blossomed a romance and they became engaged. They had to overcome a lot of family oppostition to marry. They married on 26 May 1953 and had three children. They were Tarun (b. 1954), Arun (b. 1956), and Nina Dutt (b. 1962). Geeta went on to sing some of her best songs in his films while continuing to sing in various outside assignments as well.

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Here's a rocking song from Geeta Dutt, "Chanda chandini mein chamke..." Gosh what a song this is... listen to the... http://fb.me/FcKRO1eM
latajag (lata jagtiani) Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:14:46 -0000
Here's a rocking song from Geeta Dutt, "Chanda chandini mein chamke..." Gosh what a song this is... listen to the... http://fb.me/FcKRO1eM
@gopimaliwal Thanks again. I had not heard Omkar Nath and Geeta Dutt's renderings. He's terrific. She sounds so different
vinod_sharma (Vinod Sharma) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:10:48 -0000
@gopimaliwal Thanks again. I had not heard Omkar Nath and Geeta Dutt's renderings. He's terrific. She sounds so different
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