Launched The First Ever Website Dedicated To Geeta Dutt, www.geetadutt.com..visit now... Options

[parag_sankla]

Subir bhai has fixed the issue with the links on the Gallery page. Now the links like "Home", "About Geeta", "Professional" and "Singers" will work from this page

http://geetadutt.org/Gallery/index.html

Many thanks Subir bhai.

Best Regards
Parag

[simplefable]

Subhir bhai..you rock !!

[parag_sankla]

my best wishes to you Parag

to make her site was one of your armaan

hope it's a super success.

here's one rare song of her which is wrongly credited to Asha Bhosle by HFGK

Ek Armaan Mera-1959

S D Batish-Madhusudan

this is your song-ek armaan mera dil ko pehchan mera-128kb-2:40

waiting for the 23rd

cm2

Remembering the kind soul CM2 ji while going through the posts in this thread.

[madsur]

my best wishes to you Parag

to make her site was one of your armaan

hope it's a super success.

here's one rare song of her which is wrongly credited to Asha Bhosle by HFGK

Ek Armaan Mera-1959

S D Batish-Madhusudan

this is your song-ek armaan mera dil ko pehchan mera-128kb-2:40

waiting for the 23rd

cm2

Remembering the kind soul CM2 ji while going through the posts in this thread.

Dear Paragji,

I remember visiting the site as soon as it was launched, on the same day.
I was very much impressed by its contents, even then.
I am sure the passion & determination of the entire team will reflect in the upgraded site.
It will be a case of 'Sone pe suhagaa'.

I am sure CM2ji will be watching from the heavens and applauding.

With best wishes for a flawless launch,
suresh

[parag_sankla]

Dear Paragji,

I am sure CM2ji will be watching from the heavens and applauding.

With best wishes for a flawless launch,
suresh

Thanks Suresh ji for your kind words. Yes we are sure that music lovers like CM2 ji and Bappa Chatterji (a die-hard fan of Geeta ji) will be watching from the heavens and appreciating the online tribute to Geeta ji in the form of this website.

Best Regards
Parag

[parag_sankla]

Some nice words of appreciation from a veteran music lover from Saudi Arabia:

Thanks Mohan Dev ji.

[parag_sankla]

One more blog has given a link to our website www.geetadutt.com

http://monikamanchanda.wordpress.com/2009/...ry-nightingale/

Thanks Monika ji

Best Regards
Parag

[parag_sankla]

Truly inspiring and heart-warming comments from a music lover for our website and the YT channel which has 361 videos of songs of Geeta ji so far. Thanks Khurram ji

The comment is posted here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/oldHFMfan

Undoubtedly, the entire credit of creating and maintaining the YT channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwgeetaduttcom) goes to our dear friend Anu. Only through her dedication and consistent efforts we all are able to see so many videos of songs of Geeta ji. Thanks Anu once again.

This post has been edited by parag_sankla: Sep 12 2009, 10:20 PM

[parag_sankla]

With great help from many friends, we have put together a database of Hindi film songs of Geeta ji on our website here

http://www.geetadutt.com/database.html

It is a work in progress and really needed quite a bit of edits in the form of adding missing songs, correcting some names and removing duplicates etc. Our dear friend and veteran music lover Romesh ji has now taken up this humongous and ambitious task of verifying and updating our database with reference to the Hindi Film Geet Kosh. Romesh ji, we are so grateful to you for this great initiative you have taken. We are sure, that in a short period of time we will have most of Geeta ji's songs in the forties covered with this dedicated effort you are doing.

Warmest Regards
Parag
(On behalf of Geeta Dutt fans team)

[parag_sankla]

An appreciation email from a music lover Peter

Quote :

Fantastic job. About 15 years ago I was in Berkley, CA and stopped into an Indian record store. I liked what I heard so I selected a cassette-I had no idea what it was. "1 Dollar." the man said. I had $20 on me so I bought 19 more, again no idea what was on any of them except most were filmi. One was Geeta singing gazaals. I figured she was a folk or traditional singer. Recently, I put a CD in (Golden Collection OP Nayar) and there was that unmistakable voice again. We all have so much to be thankful for to know such beauty is possible. Thank you for this website.

The email screen-shot is enclosed below.

[parag_sankla]

Our website http://www.geetadutt.com/ has completed 15,000 visitors. Thanks one and all. Please let more and more of your friends know about our site.

Best Regards
Geeta Dutt fans team

[Ittefaq]

Jaane kya tune kahin...

A pic taken on the set of the film Gauri, launched by Guru Dutt with Geeta as the singing heroine. The film was unfortunately shelved in few weeks from the date of launching.

In the news this week that V.K. Murthy is the first cinematographer to be awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Article mentions bit about the picturization of the song "Waqt Ne Kiya" and shelved movie "Gauri".

The lights are on

V K Murthy has been selected for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2008. With this he becomes the first cinematographer to win the prestigeous award. Guru Dutt, for whom he gave his best work, would have been happy

By Manasi Paresh Kumar
Posted On Wednesday, January 20, 2010

With his creative soul mate Guru Dutt (Left)

He is the man who turned legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt’s creativity into on-screen magic. That shot in Kaagaz Ke Phool where Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman are bathed in white light as Geeta Dutt’s melancholic Waqt ne kiya... rings out became Murthy’s calling card as a cinematographer. A pioneer of lighting techniques, Murthy is credited to have turned the technique and technology into art. This year he takes home the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award (the first cinematographer to win this award) as a befitting tribute.

His fragile 86-year-old frame struggled to pose for the barrage of photographers that besieged his Chamrajpet home, as the news spread. But the cinematographer understood the challenge. “It is difficult to take a shot sometimes,” he said. He rolls out his story...

If I were an actor

As a 12-year-old I wanted to become a Hindi film hero and even took Hindi lessons so I could speak clearly. But at 16, reality dawned and I realised I did not have the personality to be so. But I remained fascinated with art of story telling and its technique.

At that time, S J Polytechnic was the only college in South East Asia to have a course in cinematography and I enrolled for it. When I
went to Bombay, it was a struggle to find a footing in the Hindi film industry. I didn’t know where my life was heading. Maharana Pratap brought me my first break where I assisted cinematographer Dronacharya. Yet it was Fali Mistry who honed me in the art. To this day, I am yet to see more talented cinematographer than him.

Who needed colour

I was assistant cameraperson for the film Baazi and had suggested a particular shot for a musical bit in a song. Rathra, who was the camera person for the movie and leading man Dev Anand’s cousin said that the shot could not be done so. I asked for permission to shoot it myself and in the third take, we got it right. Guru Dutt asked me to be his cameraman from then on.

When I began my career, we were in the black and white era which was indulgent to one’s creativity. Any cinematographer will tell you that black and white is the best way to shoot. It allows you to experiment with lighting and shot breakups. But when I shot the song Chaudvin ka Chand in technicolour, it amazed me to see the difference.

Guru Dutt, magic and movies

Though I and Dutt were from Karnataka, oddly enough we always communicated in Hindi. We were individually creative and worked very well with each other. Though many consider Kaagaz Ke Phool to be his finest, I personally am a fan of Pyaasa. The writing, the scenes, the sequence are par excellence and gave me the best platform to experiment.

While making Kaagaz Ke Phool, the two of us were sitting in the studio as the late afternoon sun poured through the ventilators of the room. It struck both of us that this would make a great shot. When we shot Waqt ne Kiya, I had used mirrors for the effect and when the final product came, it was stunning, capturing the pathos of the song beautifully.

We had shot one scene for a new movie Gauri, with his wife Geeta in the lead, when he died. I had lost a friend and creative
soulmate. I have worked with Shyam Benegal on his Discovery of India series, Govind Nihalani and Pramod Chakravarthy whom I was very fond of. But there was no other Guru Dutt for me.

For my own
I have shot just one movie Huvu Hannu and even acted in it. Why I did not become a more integral part of the Kannada film industry is a question you need to ask the producers of that time who never invited me. They said I was too expensive.

Lovely sight
Leading ladies were all stunning then, you could never pick one as a favourite. However, I was a favourite with them if their compliments were anything to go by. Meena Kumari always told me, ‘Murthysaab, nobody makes me look as beautiful as you.’ Madhubala was, of course, a beauty.

Article- Courtesy of Bangalore Mirror

[parag_sankla]

Hi Madhu ji

First of all many thanks for the lovely webpage http://madhugeeta.tripod.com/ you have built in the memory of our beloved singer Geeta Dutt ji. Your page was one of the inspirations for us when we developed the site http://geetadutt.com. We launched it on 23rd November 2008 in her memory. Many thanks for giving a link to our site on your webpage.

It will be very kind of you if you can help in spreading word around about our site and our new blog section
http://www.geetadutt.com/blog/

Also please visit our YT channel which has over 400 songs of Geeta Dutt ji

http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwgeetaduttcom

We look forward to interaction with you as and when time permits.

Thanks and Best Regards
Parag

On behalf of Geeta Dutt fans team

[hildebrand]

I have written and posted a new article on rajkumari-geeta duets on the website. hope all like it.

The link is: http://www.geetadutt.com/rajkumari.html

Please share the link with friends whom you think would like to know about the duo.

[parag_sankla]

An excellent article on Geeta ji by our friend Shri Vipin Chandra ji originally written for our website has appeared in the India Link magazine. Thanks to the editor Shri Kuldip S Bagga ji. The PDF file of the magazine is shared below. The article is from page 58 to page 60.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tjp98x

Best Regards
Parag