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Geetanjali (1993 film)

1993 film by Shakti Samanta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11058105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Geetanjali is a 1993 Hindi-language romance film, produced and directed by Shakti Samanta under the Shakti Films banner. It stars Jeetendra, Rekha and music composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Plot

Geetanjali is the story of two twin sisters Geeta and Anjali. Geeta is a music teacher and Anjali is a world-renowned famous dancer. Sagar is a college professor who has come to his sister's place to spend his holiday. There he meets Geeta, they fall in love and get married. In the course of time, they have a child. Geeta is of a very suspicious nature. Whenever Sagar comes late, she suspects that he must be having an affair with his female students. One of the students, Kaveri, flirts with Sagar, so that he will pass her in the exams.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Geetanjali (1993 film)” as 1993 film by Shakti Samanta. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Geetanjali, film and Shakti can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1993 film by Shakti Samanta. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11058105. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Geetanjali (1993 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.