Gita Ghatak (Geeta Ghatak

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Ganguly) (23 January 1931 – 17 November 2009) was an Indian actress and singer. She mainly acted in Bengali cinema. Gita Ghatak was also an exponent of ''

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' ( bn, রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Li ...

''. She had her primary lessons in Tagore songs from celebrated artistes like Sailajaran Majumdar and Indira Debi Choudhurani, having a brief stint in

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too in her long music career of 65 years. She was closely associated with the

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, Kolkata. She was also a teacher at South Point School, Kolkata (where she taught all sorts of subjects including English, mathematics, as well as music). Her husband Anish Chandra Ghatak was the nephew of noted Bengali movie director

Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembe ...

Career

Her notable works include Meghe Dhaka Tara,

Bari Theke Paliye ''Bari Theke Paliye'' (English-language title: ''Runaway'' or ''The Runaway'') is a 1958 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak. It stars Parambhattarak Lahiri, Kali Bannerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Padma Devi, and Gyanesh Mukher ...

, Ekti Nadir Naam.

Selected filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghatak, Geeta 1931 births 2009 deaths Indian film actresses Actresses in Bengali cinema Rabindra Sangeet exponents Indian women playback singers Bengali-language singers Actresses from Kolkata Ritwik Ghatak Singers from Kolkata 20th-century Indian singers 20th-century Indian women singers 20th-century women composers 19th-century women composers 20th-century Indian screenwriters