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Roshan Lal Nagrath (or Roshan) was born in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (now part of Punjab in Pakistan). He began music lessons at a young age, and later attended Marris College (Bhatkhande College of Music in Lucknow) under the training of Pt.S.N.Ratanjankar (Principal of the university). In the early 1940s, Roshan joined All India Radio and worked for them as a composer.

In 1948, Roshan came to Mumbai to find work as a Bollywood music director. He struggled until meeting Kidar Sharma, who gave him the job of composing for his film Neki aur Badi (1949). While this film was a flop, Roshan emerged as a player on the Bollywood music scene with the film Baawre Nain, released the following year. For this film, Rajkumari sang all the songs for the leading lady Geeta Bali, where as young Geeta Roy sang just one song, that too a duet for the other heroine Vijayalaxmi. She sang the memorable song “Khayalon mein kisi ke” with Mukesh for composer Roshan, which became the very first hit song of Roshan.

In spite of this success, Roshan did not give many songs to Geeta Dutt (nee Roy) in the coming years. Majority of his songs were sung by either Lata Mangeshkar or Asha Bhonsle. Surprisingly for a low budget film “Agra Road” in the year 1957, he gave as many as six songs (five duets and a solo) to her. The film starred Vijay Anand (Dev Anand’s brother and acclaimed director) and Shakila.

Mohd Rafi sung one of his best yodelling song with Geeta Dutt for this film. The song has some stanzas in Gujrati as well as Punjabi. The song was penned by the veteran lyricist Prem Dhawan.

Enjoy this masti-bhara song!

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There Are 7 Responses So Far. »

1. 

   Coolp 15 October 2009
   02:57:32 pm

   

   Welcome to NG geetaduttfans !

   Thanks for posting some wonderful songs.
2. 

   Giddh 15 October 2009
   06:04:59 pm

   

   Geetaduttfans..great posts and thanks for coming to NG!

   Also, Happy Diwali to all
3. 

   geetaduttfans 15 October 2009
   07:01:22 pm

   

   Thanks Coolp and Giddh. I am glad you guys are enjoying my posts. Happy Diwali to all!
4. 

   Qalandar 15 October 2009
   07:45:52 pm

   

   I had never heard this song before, that’s great…
5. 

   Angels and Belds 15 October 2009
   09:16:00 pm

   

   can i commend rohit for finally doing something sensible in getting GDfans as a member! mazaa aa gaya
6. 

   geetaduttfans 15 October 2009
   10:17:09 pm

   

   Qalandar, there are so many songs of Geeta ji which are very melodious and lovely, but not known to many music lovers. I will keep exploring them here on NG.
7. 

   pardesi 15 October 2009
   11:04:50 pm

   

   Thanks GDF – hope you do not mind the shortening of the name. It was good to see Vijay Anand in the clip, he had a few chances as actor and was not half bad, but of course his directing was much much better than any acting he could do, A lesson here for Farhan Akhtar! Lovely song.

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