Shankar-Jaikishan were the most popular musical duo to grace the world of Hindi Film music. They understood the taste of the masses, were able to cater to those tastes, and in the process even molded their tastes. During their tenure as music directors, they were exceedingly popular and more than 75 per cent of the films for which they scored music were resounding hits - many have celebrated silver jubilees. They worked as assistants to the celebrated composer pair Husnlal-Bhagatram and imbibed much of their form and structure, which they successfully employed in a refined style. Raj Kapoor introduced Shankar-Jaikishan to the Hindi Film world with Barsaat (1949) and this team continued to give one after other successful musicals. After they established themselves, the careers of many composers of the forties and early fifties were virtually wiped out. Such was the success of this musical duo that they composed music for over 100 films between their prime era from year 1949 to the year 1969.

Shankar-Jaikishan have given very few songs to Geeta ji, most of them being duets/group songs. She did sing two songs for them for the Prem Nath-Nutan starrer Parbat (1952). One was a trio song with Lata and Rafi and the other was a