Actor, singer, composer, story and screenplay writer and film maker. No, we are not talking about the legendary Kishore Kumar here, its Shri Nath (S.N.) Tripathi. He was a man of many talents. S. N. Tripathi's main scope of film music was the much-neglected, much scorned mythologicals to which he brought an aura of credibility thanks to his exquisite tunes based on Indian classical music.

Playback singer Geeta Dutt's association with this veteran composer goes a long way. In her debut year itself, Tripathi ji gave her a song for the film Manasarovar (1946). It was her first song with the legendary singer Mohd. Rafi. The song was "Jai hind, yeh hind ki kahaniyaan" with Binapani Mukherjee as the third singer. The two legendary singers, Geeta Dutt and Mohd. Rafi went on to sing more than 150 duets together in the coming years. A detailed discussion about Geeta's duets with the legendary Mohd. Rafi can be found here.

It seems that Tripathi did not compose any music during the year 1947 and he had just one film “Shri Ram Bhakt Hanuman” in 1948. There is no information if Geeta sang any song for him during these two years. In 1949, we have a beautiful solo “Mere daras deewane nain” for the film Veer Ghatotkach.