Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri was one of 10 children born to a wealthy zamindar family in a village named Idilpur, Madaripur Subdivision under Faridpur district in Bengal, British India presently under Gosairhat Upazila of Shariatpur District, Bangladesh.

During Geeta's recording of songs for the movie Baazi, she met its young up-and-coming director, Guru Dutt.

She also cut a number non-film discs, singing to the tune of notable music directors like Sudhin Dasgupta and Anal Chatterjee.

[5] This shattered Geeta, who then suffered a serious nervous breakdown and ran into financial problems[citation needed].

She performed a leading role in a Bengali movie, Badhu Baran (1967), and sang admirably in Anubhav (1971), to the music of Kanu Roy.

In addition, she has sung songs in many other Indian languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri and Punjabi.