{"id":3297,"date":"2016-11-23T00:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:24:44","slug":"10-duets-of-geeta-dutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/10-duets-of-geeta-dutt\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Most Loved Duets of Geeta Dutt"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Pictures used in this article are courtesy The Magical Voice of Geeta Dutt Facebook Group<\/a>, geetadutt.com,<\/a> Google Image Search and YouTube)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Geeta Dutt
(Born Geet\u0101 Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri on 23 November 1930)
(Pic: Pakanati Lakshmi Priya)<\/p><\/div>\n

Time has odd ways of showing its power.\u00a0 It changes, moulds, shapes, breaks and creates. Stars rise and fade out, trends come and go but some things rise above the ordinary to maintain their magic, generations through.<\/p>\n

Geeta Dutt, the singer with the dulcet voice dipped in honey and sugar, had the unusual ability to carry the listener away into the world she created with her music. Her characteristic lilt would lend an extra edge to her songs, an added dash of masti, a deeper agony, a tingling laughter, a searing pain… You don\u2019t simply listen to her songs. You feel and live them.<\/p>\n

Today, my journey is through my most favourite duets of Geeta Dutt that create a charming world of evergreen music. She not only holds her ground against her male counterpart \u2013 each one of them a legend in his own right but creates her own space, a unique style, which makes these songs cut a new level altogether.<\/p>\n

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Jai Jagdish Hare<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most spiritual songs of Hindi film music, this adaptation of Jaidev\u2019s Geet Govind<\/em> which delves into five of the 10 avatars of Vishnu, is in a class of its own.\u00a0 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his novel\u00a0Anandmath<\/em>\u00a0penned those exact Sanskrit lyrics and what you hear is the same composition set to tune by Hemant Kumar. Hemant Kumar\u2019s expertise in Bengal\u2019s bhaktigeeti<\/a>\u00a0 coupled with his grip over Sanskrit sloka rendition finds the perfect harmonious converse in Geeta Dutt\u2019s bhaav gayaki.<\/p>\n

The challenge with\u00a0Jai Jagdish Hare<\/em>\u00a0was that two different melodies were running parallel and simultaneously rendered by two singers (Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt) on one single mike.<\/p>\n

It did not help matters that Hemant Kumar was a six-footer and Geeta Dutt comparatively much shorter in height. Moreover, Geeta Dutt had to keep walking towards the mike and away from it to lower and heighten the volume of her rendition. To make matters more difficult, she had to keep climbing on and off a raised wooden plank to match height with Hemant Kumar! (Source of anecdote: Nirmal Phophalia quoting Devi Dutt<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Jai Jagdisha Hare<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Anandmath<\/em>, 1951) \u2013 Hemant Kumar \/ Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt<\/span><\/p>\n