| Profile of Geetha BaliShe is known as
the finest dancer, singer and the actress film industry had in the 40's and the 50's.
Originally, Harikirtan Kaur, she started her film career at the age of 12 in The
Cobbler followed by her feature debut in Majnu's Badnami and became popular
with her reel name Geeta Bali. This lively dancer starred many films includingKidar
Sharma's Suhaag Raat, Guru Dutt's Bazzi, Bazz, Jaal, Sailaab
and the hit musical Albela. Sohrab Modi's Jailor named her the dramatic
queen with her famous portrayal of a blind girl.
In Banware Nain she used an eloquent gestural style
to play the country girl betrayed by the hero, matched only by her contemporary, Nimmi.
She made a great team with Shammi Kapoor, the man she married later. Her death caused the
novelist Rajinder Singh Bedi to stop his directorial debut based on his classic Ek
Chadar Maili Si. |
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