Ever Green Songs on Geeta Bali - Page 6

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Very good dialogues from movie jaal

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGRATG5oUhw

Geeta bali in Mr India in 1961 (just notuced pictures are not showing up here but if you click at pictures it shows up in new window... I deleted pictures above but will leave these ones)

Mehfil mein meri kaun yeh diwana aa gaya

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b52lLgeG8Ww

Mohabbat ki bus itni daastan hai

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OFmoLJNQarI

wow !!! this is such a great topic and with such nice info and articles !!
thanks dollyji and manjuji !!!
cant you make this a sticky topic?

Geeta Bali : That Amazing Vivaciousness
Dinesh Raheja

Geeta Bali's dancing eyes and her animated, expressive face which mirrored her soul were her most outstanding features. Yet life was snatched away from this vibrant personality at an achingly young age of 35. It is some consolation that Geeta crammed a lot into her short life: 70 odd films in a ten-year career. She married struggling actor-turned-megastar Shammi Kapoor and mothered two children: a son and a daughter. Today, she is remembered as a wonderfully natural actress and a fabulous human being.

Famous songs picturised on Geeta Bali
Song	Film	Singer
Chup chup khade ho zaroor koi baat hai	Badi Bahen	Lata Mangeshkar
Sun bairi balam sach bol re	Bawre Nain	Rajkumari
Chaandni aayee banke pyar o saajna	Dulari	Shamshad Begum
Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer bana de	Baazi	Geeta Dutt
Suno gajar kya gaaye	Baazi	Geeta Dutt
Shola jo bhadke	Albela	Lata Mangeshkar, Chitalkar
Bholi soorat dil ke khote	Albela	Lata Mangeshkar, Chitalkar
Chaandni raatein pyar ki baatein	Jaal	Lata Mangeshkar
Hum pyar mein jalne walon ko	Jailor	Lata Mangeshkar
Sari sari raat teri yaad jagaye	Aji Bas Shukriya	Lata Mangeshkar

True, Geeta's reputation as an actress rests more on her performances than her roles. Natural, spontaneous and gifted with a spot-on sense of comic timing, she never really found a vehicle worthy of her talent. Largely a shade better than the movies she starred in, she frittered away her talents in B-grade films. Probably the fact that she was born into a family that had to struggle for sheer survival and the fact that she reached the top through sheer grit had Geeta stress on quantity rather than quality. Film lore has it that when mentor [filmmaker] Kidar Sharma first met Geeta, she was living with her family in somebody's bathroom! Geeta, who was born Harikirtan Kaur, had done a few small-time dancing roles in pre-Partition Punjab in films like Badnami, before moving to Mumbai. Impressed by her off-screen vivacity, Sharma cast Geeta in his Suhaag Raat (1948). Audiences related to her instantly and watched wide-eyed as she nonchalantly tossed her unconscious hero, Bharat Bhushan over her shoulder in a scene. Soon, Geeta was inundated with contracts (that's what they called film offers then). She accepted most. She won raves even in supporting roles like in the 1949 Suraiya starrer Badi Behan and the Madhubala starrer Dulari. In 1951, she became a major star with Guru Dutt's first hit, Baazi (she went on to do three other films under his direction). Geeta played gangster's moll with a golden heart to Kalpana Kartik's conventional heroine. But Geeta played her role with such gay abandon that hero Dev Anand divulges, "People came repeatedly to theatres to see Geeta's spirited dancing to Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer bana de. Geeta proved she could do tragedy (Sharma's Raj Kapoor starrer Bawre Nain) or and play the lighthearted heroine to comedian Bhagwan in the super successful AlbelaAlbela's swinging C Ramchandra composed songs like Shola jo bhadke and Sham dhale mere khidki tale made front-benchers dance with the stars and even fling coins on screen. Pug-nosed Geeta was no conventional beauty, but that transparent face and that smile constantly flirting on her lips made sure you couldn't tear your eyes away from her. Watch Geeta Bali in the Guru Dutt-directed Jaal (1952). Dev Anand, a cigarette-smoking smuggler on the run from the police, tries to entice morally upstanding heroine Geeta into his web. Geeta evocatively communicates her struggle against, and her eventual surrender to, handsome Dev's seduction call Yeh raat, yeh chaandni phir kahan. Famously down-to-earth despite her star status, Geeta was the antithesis of the coy 1950s' heroine. She often drove herself to her premieres in an open jeep. Those who knew her claim she was a Samaritan who touched the lives of whoever she met. She is said to have personally groomed Mala Sinha, then a newcomer. To date, 35 years after her death, her secretary Surinder Kapoor's (Boney Kapoor's father) productions begin with a shraddhanjali to Geeta Bali. Shammi Kapoor entered her life when they worked in the quaintly named Miss Coca Cola and Coffee House together. On an impulse, Geeta played a small role of a man in Sharma's Shammi Kapoor starrer Rangeen Raatein. On the film's Ranikhet outdoor, Shammi and Geeta fell in love. Kapoor was a year younger to her and was not yet a star, but the twosome were hell bent on marrying each other. Geeta had worked with Shammi's eldest brother, Raj Kapoor in Bawre Nain, and with his father, Prithviraj Kapoor in Anand Math, Shammi was unsure about their reaction to this match. But on August 23, 1955, with producer-director Hari Walia as witness, the couple were married at the Banganga Temple at 4 am. Geeta continued to work after marriage in a few films like Sohrab Modi's Jailor (1958), where she won raves as a blind girl. With Shammi Kapoor turning into a huge star and the birth of her two children Aditya (nicknamed Mickey) and Kanchan, she eased her workload. The desire to do that one fulfilling role she would be remembered for prompted Geeta to attempt the production of a classic for herself. She started Rano, based on Rajinder Singh Bedi's famous novel, Ek Chaddar Maili Si, based on a widow's remarriage to her brother-in-law. Upcoming star Dharmendra played her hero. Geeta, who had not been vaccinated for small pox, contacted the dreaded disease while shooting the film. The best care was rushed to her, but her fever apparently reached 107 degrees. Her doctor saw a picture by his patient's bedside and asked who the pretty lady was. The disease had so wracked Geeta's frail frame that he didn't recognise her as the same person! Geeta Bali passed away on January 21, 1965, leaving behind eight-year-old Aditya and three-year-old Kanchan in the care of a devastated Shammi Kapoor.

Ironically, she was cremated in Banganga, not far from where she was married.

Geeta Bali's Landmark Films
Year	Film	Hero
1948	Suhaag Raat	Bharat Bhushan
1949	Badi Bahen	Pran, Rehman, Suraiya
1950	Bawre Nain	Raj Kapoor
1951	Baazi	Dev Anand
1951	Albela	Bhagwan
1952	Jaal	Dev Anand
1955	Vachan	Balraj Sahni
1958	Jailor	Abhi Bhattacharya

Originally posted by: *dolly*

you mean geeta bali....you can start from the page one to know about her..she is a actress from older movies..have given great hits and performences..she was also married to shammi kapoor( if you know who that is)..she died in 1965 i think...rest you can read in this thread..

Thanks.. I read the article.. I havent seen any of her movies or heard those songs..🤔.. But i do know Shammi Kapoor.. 😳

Meena try to listen tsome of the songs from last 5 movies in the link of song on page 5 you may like them. You can watch initial links of songs on you tube too.

Originally posted by: Meena1

Thanks.. I read the article.. I havent seen any of her movies or heard those songs..🤔.. But i do know Shammi Kapoor.. 😳

Geeta Bali was born in late 1920s in pre partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, she was a Sikh, her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films. She became a star in the 50's. In 1955 she married Shammi Kapoor who was 2 years younger than her but not yet a star. She had also worked earlier with her brother in law Raj Kapoor in Bavre Nain and with her father in Law Prithviraj Kapoor in Anand Math. Her secretary was Surinder Kapoor, father of producer Boney Kapoor and actor Anil Kapoor. She had two children with Shammi, before she died on Jan 21 1965 of small pox. She left behind a son Aditya aged 8 and a daughter Kanchan aged 3.

Later her niece Yogeeta Bali also made it into films before marrying Kishore Kumar, and then after a divorce with Kishore Kumar she married actor Mithun Chakravorty