Remembering Geeta Ji On Her Death Anniversary Options

[parag_sankla]

Hi friends

On the eve of her death anniversary, we have posted an exclusive video of living legend Manna Dey ji talking to the team of http://www.geetadutt.com.
Please see the video


Thanks to our friends (Subir Biswas, Venkat , Yogesh, Mrs Chhabi Naag) for making this happen.

Best Regards
Geeta Dutt fans team

This post has been edited by parag_sankla: Jul 22 2010, 11:07 PM

[abhayp]

Thank you, Parag - and thank you, everyone else who made this video happen! It is a heartwarming interview. I was delighted to hear Manna De describing Geeta Dutt's voice as having the chiming of bells in it - it describes perfectly what I hear in her voice but have never found the words to describe!

When Lata Mangeshkar and Noor Jehan sang at the "Mortal Men Immortal Melodies" concert in 1982, they were accompanied by an orchestra that called itself Melody Makers. In its subsequent promotional posters, this group described their experience of playing alongside these legends. They described Lata's voice as having the clarity and sweetness of a flute, and Noor Jehan's voice as having the intoxication and poignancy of a sarangi. To my mind, the descriptions picked up beautifully the key points of either voice. The chiming bells in Geeta's voice now form part of these perfect aural descriptions for me!

A couple of questions:
- When Manna De says "she worked for me as Assistant Music Director," does he mean she sang for him when he was an Asst MD, or that she was an Asst MD to him? I am assuming it was the former, but am curious if there is a chance that the latter is true!
- He talks of Geeta Dutt's brother as "Chobi Dutt". Surely her brother would have been a Roy and not a Dutt?

Thanks again! Am looking forward to logging in for the radio programme tonight.

Warm regards,
Abhay

[Aditya Pant]

- When Manna De says "she worked for me as Assistant Music Director," does he mean she sang for him when he was an Asst MD, or that she was an Asst MD to him? I am assuming it was the former, but am curious if there is a chance that the latter is true!

It's a slight issue with subtitling. From whatever little I can understand Bengali, I think he is saying that "she sang for me (when I was) a MD and Asst. MD" Of course, native Bengali speakers can be more precise.

Aditya

[smahesh]

- When Manna De says "she worked for me as Assistant Music Director," does he mean she sang for him when he was an Asst MD, or that she was an Asst MD to him? I am assuming it was the former, but am curious if there is a chance that the latter is true!

It's a slight issue with subtitling. From whatever little I can understand Bengali, I think he is saying that "she sang for me (when I was) a MD and Asst. MD" Of course, native Bengali speakers can be more precise.

Aditya

manna dey seems to be referring to her assisting him for a rabindra jayanti function where she sang two rabindra sangeet songs too.
she might have assisted him in films like jaan-pehchaan too.in mid sixties she was signed for a couple of films as a music director which unfortunately were shelved.

regards,
mahesh

[Aditya Pant]

manna dey seems to be referring to her assisting him for a rabindra jayanti function where she sang two rabindra sangeet songs too.

I don't think Manna dey is implying that at all.