Geeta Dutt

Born:23 November 1930

Died:20 July 1972

She was a prominent Indian playback singer and a famous bengali-hindi classical artist, born in Faridpur before the Partition of India.
She found particular prominence as a playback singer in Hindi cinema. She also sang many modern Bengali songs, both in film and non-film genre.
In 1946, she got the first break with an opportunity to sing in the mythological film Bhakta Prahlad for which Prasad was the music director.
She is supposed to have sung over 1200 songs in Hindi films.
In addition, she has sung songs in many Indian regional languages including Marathi, Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri and Punjabi. She has sung in Nepali evergreen movie Maitighar.
A postage stamp, bearing her face, was released by India Post to honour her on 3 May 2013.

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