Geeta Dutt (, born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri, November 23 1930 ? July 20 1972) was a prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi films of the 1950s and 60s, and also a singer of modern Bengali songs. Early life Geeta Dutt was born into a rich zamindaar's family as Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri in Faridpur, Bangladesh in 1930. In 1942, her parents shifted to a Dadar apartment in Bombay when she was twelve. There, in their modest flat at Dadar, composer/music director Hanuman Prasad, overheard her singing casually and agreed to impart her training in singing. He launched her in a chorus song in Bhakht Prahlad (1946), where she sang only two lines. But her rendering of those two lines stood out and astonished everybody in the recording studio. Her major assignment was in the following year with Do Bhai. The music of that film clicked in a big way and Geeta became a top playback singer. C