प्रेम बिना यह जीवन ख़ाली

“Prem Bina Yeh Jeevan Khaali” is one of the songs from Geeta (1940), a Hindi–Marathi bilingual social drama produced by Circo Productions and directed by P. Y. Altekar. The film starred Chandra Mohan and Durga Khote, with a story built around the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. The music was composed by Datta Koregaonkar (also known as K. Datta), and the lyrics and dialogues were written by S. K. Kallah.

“Prem Bina Yeh Jeevan Khaali” was set to music by Datta Koregaonkar (K. Datta) for the 1940 film Geeta, one of the ten songs he composed for the picture.

The words of “Prem Bina Yeh Jeevan Khaali” were written by S. K. Kallah, who provided both the song lyrics and the dialogues for Geeta (1940).

Geeta (1940) follows a discontented man who deserts his pious wife Durga—a devoted follower of the Bhagavad Gita—and draws their young son into a life of crime. Years later the grown son, seeking revenge, comes face to face with his own younger brother, now a prosecutor, leading to a climax of repentance.

Geeta reunited Chandra Mohan and Durga Khote on screen. In his November 1940 review in Filmindia, Baburao Patel was critical of the production overall but singled out Durga Khote’s acting as “sparkling” and called Chandra Mohan “irresistible, inimitable and incomparable.” The songs survive as an early-talkie record of composer Datta Koregaonkar’s work.