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Here is a lovely song composed by the (very talented but unfortunately almost forgotten) Chitragupt for the film Kangan (1959). The film had a decent star cast of Dadamuni Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy. The film nor its music created big waves at the box office, yet it has some charming numbers by Geeta Dutt.

No other female playback singer would have sung songs with such a wide range of variety of emotions for the same film.

1) Aag lagaana kya mushkil hai – A club song in a highly westernized tune filmed on Nishi
2) Bees baras tak laakh sambhaala – A dance song based on folk music filmed on Helen
3) Javaab nahin gore mukhde par til kaale ka (with Rafi sahab) – Fun-filled romantic song filmed on Shammi
4) Likh padh padh likh likh padh ke – (with Usha Mangeshkar) – A song for loving mother teaching her kid filmed on Nirupa Roy

The lyrics are by Rajinder Krishan, another great artist. Very few music lovers talk about lyricists in general and Rajinder Krishan in particular.

Geeta Dutt’s songs with O P Nayyar, S D Burman and Hemant Kumar are relatively more popular. Yet, the fact is that she sang the most songs for Chitragupt, about a hundred of them.