“Geeta (Roy) Dutt may have had the sketchiest of training, but she succeeded as a singer because she knew that playback singing is not so much about technique as it is about taking the listener along into the world of feelings,” writes Ganesh Anantharaman in his book Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song.

Piya Aiso Jiya Mein (Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam)
Music: Hemant Kumar
Singer: Geeta Dutt

(All pictures used in this article are courtesy Geeta Dutt’s son Arun Dutt, The magical voice of Geeta Dutt Facebook Group, Geetadutt.com and Priya Lakshmi)  

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