Geeta Dutt Sings For Or With Hemant Kumar, songs sung for or with Hemant Kumar by Geeta Dutt Options

[hildebrand]

I am beginning this topic to upload songs I have which are sung by geeta dutt and have either been sung with hemant kumar or have his music.
All are welcome to add to it.

jab se mili to se ankhiyaan jiyara
"Amaanat" (1955) starring Bharat Bhushan, Chand Usmani, Nazir Hussain, Pran & Asha Mathur.
Lyrics composed by Shailendra.
Music composed by Salil Chowdhury.
Singers Geeta Dutt & Hemant Kumar.
Bitrate: 160 kbps
Tracklength: 03:22

[simplefable]

R&D..I never meant what i said in a derogatory way...After all Americans doesnt have anything of thier own..not even a Culture. So please let us not compare with them.
We gave Zero to the world..not say about Vedas et al.
When I heard Saleel Da's Itna na mujh se pyar badha...and then saw him on TV saying that he took the inspiration from Mozart...I went after Mozart.. After all Music is universal.
Now, lets not even talk about Copy Right...We dont have one. And honestly we dont need one.
Interesting to read the examples you cited... Thanks.

[prithvi_dg]

R&D..I never meant what i said in a derogatory way...After all Americans doesnt have anything of thier own..not even a Culture. So please let us not compare with them.
We gave Zero to the world..not say about Vedas et al.
When I heard Saleel Da's Itna na mujh se pyar badha...and then saw him on TV saying that he took the inspiration from Mozart...I went after Mozart.. After all Music is universal.
Now, lets not even talk about Copy Right...We dont have one. And honestly we dont need one.
Interesting to read the examples you cited... Thanks.

I am not sure about the veracity of this allegation that HemantK landed in trouble due to copyright issues related to the "Oh Baby"/"Oh Bernadine" song. Parag, who mentioned this controversy on this forum himself cannot verify it, saying that he "heard it somewhere". Personally, I have come across several "heard it somewhere"s, much like the rest of us have. Examples of these "heard it somewheres" include

-"Singer A did not sing the word "raam" in any song because it was irreligious for him" - Proved to be untrue
-"Singer B converted to religion R to get married" - Very likely to be untrue, also nobody's business even if B did.
-"Singer C (female from '50s) was having an affair with male singers D, E, F" - Unprovable, but nobody's business
-"Singer G poisoned and killed singer H" - Unprovable, so better not spread it.

IMO, none of these contain an iota of truth and serious music lovers better refrain from repeating them while associating singers' names.

Coming to Hemant's alleged copyright violation: Around 1959, it was rumored that Hemant was banned because he had ripped off a tune from an English movie in a Bengali film song released in 1959, [which was 2 years after Police (1957).] Hemant referred to this incident in his autobiography and wrote that he had gone on an overseas tour in 1959-60 for several months and could not do stage shows in India during this period. When he came back to India, he heard that some mischievous people had spread a rumor that Hemant had been banned in India because he had stolen a Western tune and had left for a foreign country. Hemant wrote (something along these lines) that although he found this rumor harmful, he was a bit amused by the fact that these mischief mongers would not let a single chance to malign someone go by.

Finally, Police('57) was not the first instance nor the last instance, when Hemant looked at another composer's tune for inspiration - and this is provable.

-Prithvi