Geetā Dutt (Born Geetā Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri) was a prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi movies in the 1950s and 60s, and also a singer of modern Bengali songs. Music is by Madan Mohan and Lyrics by Rajendra Krishan. Starring Kishore Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Nimmi, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash and Beena. "Bhai Bhai" is an Indian Hindi film directed by Nitai Palit. I think words are just not enough for that. There is something about this song which touches me at different levels of my existence. But still I knew that this person was singing about a deep emotion and love, which though I couldn’t understand, knew that it was something fundamental. The plaintive voice, if I remember right, irritated me. I didn’t understand anything that was being sung.
I might have been eight or nine years old. My earliest memory of the song is from Chhaya Geet on Bombay DD. Is the author or the director telling us something through the names of the characters? Kalyani (Auspiciousness) choosing between Deven (God) and Bikash (development)? Choice between life in afflunce and poverty, health and sickness, beauty and love. But Bikash babu is sick, ailing from tuberculosis. On the other side she feels bound to Bikash through love and her feelings. On one side she has the young lover, who is not only good-looking but also loyal and true to her. Kalyani caught in choice between Deven and Bikash. In my best gaane ka kachumbar tradition I had thought the line hota tu peepal me hoti… (if you were the peepal tree, I would be…) as tota tu peepal me hoti (you a parrot and I the peepal tree). This gives the song the character of a background song.Īlthough I knew this song for a long time, it took me years to understand the lyrics. Lovely piece of direction! Though we hear the boatman singing we never see him. Even though they are exchanging sweet nothings, it is Sujata’s feelings and emotions (in the boatman’s voice) which colour the atmosphere. When Adhir starts to speak their track is silenced and the boatman’s song takes over. He sang around ten solos in Hindi films and still one has at least five songs of him at the tip of the tongue.īimal Roy has opens the scene with Sujata and Adhir admitting their love to each other and in distance one hears the boatman singing.
While compiling this list, I realised the big impact this singer has left on us. Mere saajan hai us paar, although sung by a waysider, the camera stays on this character only at the beginning of the song, giving it a feeling of background song. After this nearly all of his songs appear as background songs. The first Hindi solo of his after Eight Days is most probably sun mere bandhu re for Sujata. The song was ek prem ki pyaari nishani.) After that it looks like he took a 12 years break and lent his voice to Dev Anand in Kala Pani for the song dil laga ke kadar gayi pyaare. (Anu informed me later that he sang for the film Taj Mahal under the baton of Madhavlal Damodar.
The first song sung by him for a Hindi film I found was for Eight Days. That in turn would have been too easy, because I found only around 13 songs where he has lent his voice and only eleven of them were solos. That is why I took the easy way out and went off to make a list of 10 favourite songs sung by him. Burman sung songsĮither I am just too indecisive or I love all his songs, which makes a list of 10 favourite S.