Remembering the charming and beautiful Geeta Bali, who left us on this day (January 21), in 1965, she was just 35 years old.
Blessed with a lively and genuine persona, Geeta Bali acted in about 70 films over a 12-year career and was twice nominated for Filmfare Awards.
Born as Harikirtan Kaur in 1930 in pre-partition Amritsar, Punjab, She started her film career as a child actress, at the age of 12, with the film The Cobbler (1942).
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The 1946 film Badnaami (1946) was her first adult role, which also had Balraj Sahni and Pran. Her first success comes with “Sohag Rat (1948)” with Bharat Bhushan and Begum Para, “Dulari (1949),” and “Badi Bahen (1949),” making her one of the most sought after actresses of the time.
Next year, she was cast against Raj kapoor in “Baware Nain (1950),” and against Dev Anand in “Baazi (1951).” Her onscreen pairing with Dev Anand was most successful in films including Jaal (1952), Ferry (1954), Milap (1955), Faraar and Pocket Maar (1956). She worked with Prithvi Raj Kapoor in Anand Math (1952).
Her effervescent charm and impeccable comic timing endeared her to audiences during her remarkable career. Her other notable films were Nishana (1950), Albela (1951), Albeli (1955), and Kavi (1955). Geeta Bali received a Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination for Vachan (1955) with Rajendra Kumar.
Bali met her future husband Shammi Kapoor at the sets of their first film together, Miss Coca Cola (1955), the also done Rangeen Raaten (1956) and Coffee House (1957). In 1955, she married the as-yet-unsuccessful Shammi Kapoor. She became a mother of two — a son, “Aditya Raj Kapoor,” and a daughter, “Kanchan Kapoor,” while her career, although somewhat sidelined, continued.
On the sets of “Rano,” a Punjabi film, the actress contracted smallpox, from which she never recovered, She died on January 21st, 1965, at the age of 35.
Geeta Bali, one of the the finest, bravest and most humane actress from Hindi cinema’s golden era, left us early, but memories of her unswerving curls, chirpy eyes and pixie smile, which breathe life, will live on.
