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Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 13 2009, 01:27 AM

Looking at the career of Shakeela, the song "Babuji dheere chalna" must be the most popular song filmed on this beautiful actress. She seems to have acted in about 50 odd films from 1949 till 1963.

Shakeela was a beautiful actress with limited acting abilities. She was the moll in Guru Dutt's Aar Paar (1954) and then went on to become Dev Anand's heroine in the film CID (1956). In spite of such successful films, she never became a top class heroine.

Its surprising to find that Geeta ji sang a good no of songs for films starring Shakeela. One can confirm if these songs are indeed filmed on her or not, only after seeing the videos. Yet, here is a list of films where Shakeela has acted and Geeta ji has sung song (s)

Baraat (1960)
Dr. Shaitan (1960)
Guest House (1959)
School Master (1959)
Naag Padmini (1957)
Paristan (1957)
C.I.D. (1956)
Malika (1956)
Aar-Paar (1954)
Khushboo (1954)
Lal Pari (1954)
Armaan (1953)
Shahenshah (1953)






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Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 13 2009, 08:05 PM

Here is a song from the film Shehenshah (1953), not sure if it was filmed on Shakeela or not

Dil De Ke Dil Ko Le Le
Geeta Dutt
Shehanshah (1953)
S D Burman
Sahir
96 KBPS
02.40 min
mp3

Audio courtesy HF members

Posted by: RajanCS Jan 13 2009, 08:33 PM

Parag,

This is really an excellent GD song. Thanks for uploading it.

Regards,

Rajan

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 13 2009, 08:55 PM

The same year, another film Armaan (1953) starring Dev Anand and Madhubala was released. Shakeela played the role of second heroine here. There are 2 very beautiful solos of Geeta ji in this film, not sure filmed on whom. The music was composed by the legendary S D Burman sahab and the lyrics were penned by his then favorite lyricist Sahir sahab.

Yeh hansi yeh khushi
Geeta Dutt
Armaan (1953)
S D Burman
Sahir
128 KBPS
03.09 min
mp3

Jadoo Bhari Ye Fizayen
Geeta Dutt
Armaan (1953)
S D Burman
Sahir
128 KBPS
02.45 min
mp3

Both audio courtesy generous HF members

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 13 2009, 09:36 PM

You are most welcome Rajan. Its my pleasure to re-upload these lesser heard songs of Geeta ji

Best Regards
Parag

Posted by: RajanCS Jan 14 2009, 02:11 PM

Heard these for the first time. Good ones.

Regards,

Rajan

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 15 2009, 06:01 AM

Unfortunately the yesteryear actress Shakeela's name resembles with a new lady on the South Indian cinema. When one searches for the pics of Shakeela (or Shakila for that matter), one sees only horrifying pics of this new lady.



Here is another B & W pic of the pretty Shakeela




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Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 22 2009, 10:51 AM

A lovely song from Lal Pari (1954)

Aankhon ke paimaane pee
Geeta Dutt
Lalpari (1954)
Hansraj Behl
Asad Bhopali
96 KBPS
03.11 min
mp3

Audio courtesy HF members

Posted by: hildebrand Jan 23 2009, 01:57 AM

Lalpari also has a lovely Talat-Geeta Duet, Keh Rahi Hain Dhadkanein Pukaar Kar.

The song is uploaded http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=66717&st=60&gopid=566905&#

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 23 2009, 02:03 AM

Since my entire song collection is only on my Windows based desktop (and no songs on my macbook), I was going to share this song sometime later..



Thanks for the initiative HB.

BTW, this song has a special mention in the book. Haimanti ji writes : In contrast to her (Geeta ji's) songs with OP, where she is stressing on the words (Babuji dheere chalna for example), here is a song (Kah rahi hain dhadakane pukar kar) where Geeta almost whispers the words. She matches the softness of the velvet voice of Talat mahmood and the song is an enchanting beauty.

Cheers
Parag

Posted by: hildebrand Jan 23 2009, 02:32 AM

Hmm. When velvet meets velvet, the effect has to be enchanting! (The effect with the other velvet voice G.M. Durrani is similar).

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 23 2009, 02:38 AM

Wah wah kya baat kahin hain!

Another soft and sweet song that comes to my mind is "Raat hain arman bhari aur kya suhani raat hain" from the film Sangam (1950), composed by Ram Ganguly and penned by S H Bihari. What a lovely melody!

Incidentally, I have read somewhere on RMIM that Ram Ganguly personally thought that Geeta ji had more versatile and melodious voice compared to her contemporary singers. I don't know many songs of Ram Ganguly sung by Geeta ji. In fact, there is very little information available on this composer except for this famous film with Raj Kapoor.

Posted by: hildebrand Jan 23 2009, 02:50 AM

earthmusic mentions as many as seven songs Geeta ji with him. Just have a look here:-

www.earthmusic.net/hindi-film-songs.php?mdid[]=ramganguly&singerid[]=gd
(Notice my tweaking of the software system. Next when you want geeta duets with a particular md just change the mdid.)

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 23 2009, 02:58 AM

I think the link is not coming up correctly. Can you please check it? The new one is working nicely..thanks!

Thanks
Parag

Posted by: hildebrand Jan 23 2009, 03:07 AM

That was the board software bungling up my paste. You can see her work for lyricists similarly.
For example, songs of hers written by shailendra can be got like this:-

www.earthmusic.net/hindi-film-songs.php?singerid[]=gd&lrid[]=shailendra
Change the lyricist id and you can get her combination with others as well.

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 23 2009, 03:09 AM

Can't thank you enough. This search string is going to be so useful when we will start looking for songs of Geeta ji for a specific lyricist.




Best Regards
Parag

Posted by: hildebrand Jan 23 2009, 03:19 AM

You are most welcome Parag. Thought, you might be interested to know this discovery of mine, hence posted it.

Posted by: parag_sankla Jan 23 2009, 08:44 PM

Another lovely song from Lal Pari (1954)

Main jannat ki hoor hoon
Geeta Dutt
Lalpari (1954)
Hansraj Behl
Asad Bhopali
96 KBPS
03.21 min
mp3

Audio courtesy HF members