"Hum aap ki aankhon mein is dil ko basa dein to"
This duet by Mohammed Rafi & Geeta Dutt is from 1957 film "Pyasa". The song is picturised on Guru Dutt and Mala Sinha, the lyricist being Sahir Ludhianvi
An immensely popular song of its time from a commercially unsusccessful film .The song is picturised as a dream sequence. The female singer Geeta Dutt was incidentally actor director Guru Dutt's wife. They had three children together but Guru Dutt later got romantically involved with his protege Waheeda Rehman and supposedly commited suicide in 1964. Geeta Dutt went into nervous breakdown and died of Cirrhosis of liver in 1972 at the age of 41.
Her voice really had a unique tonal quality which we normally refer to as "Khanakti aawaz" in Hindi . This fluid quality of her voice made her quite popular. Inspite of her personal problems she managed to give some terrific songs. Mohammed Rafi's voice as usual is smooth as silk. This is one of those evergreen duets.
Here is the video. Enjoy!
Beautiful song well sung
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