On the event of Rekha's 65th birthday celebration, here's a glance at her history, Rekha: The Untold Story, composed by Yasser Usman. The book endeavors to deliver her phenomenal character however it takes the commonplace course that kept tattle and fan magazines of a specific period available for use – Rekha's lascivious individual life.
From the hour of her teenaged Bollywood debut in Anjana Safar to Super Nani, Rekha has lingered too huge in the national cognizance. In some sense, she is a commendable return, or an inheritor on the off chance that you see it that way, to the great courageous women of the yesteryear like Madhubala and Meena Kumari. Unpleasantly, with the last mentioned, she shares much for all intents and purpose. For both, superstardom came at an extraordinary individual expense. Love, connections and residential happiness were difficult to find. Men were immediately their raison d'etre and adversary.
On her 65th birthday celebration, we investigate her life story, Rekha: The Untold Story, composed by Yasser Usman, which endeavors to deliver the unprecedented character however it takes the well-known course that kept tattle and fan magazines of a specific time available for use – Rekha's lascivious individual life.
Like Meena, Rekha had a troublesome adolescence. While Meena's abba left her in a halfway house just to return and discover ants creeping everywhere throughout the infant's body, Rekha's dad, the incomparable Gemini Ganesan's blessing to Rekha was far more awful – the deep rooted revile of being Gemini Ganesan's ill-conceived girl. Rekha's need of and assurance from men for an amazing duration can be seen through the wrongness crystal.
As though the youth things wasn't sufficient, Rekha's own life as a star turned into a ground on which numerous a battleground was battled. Unexpectedly, the beguiling excellence or diva as we probably am aware her today wasn't perceived as one in her initial years. Shashi Kapoor was constrained to call her "dim, stout and awkward" and thought about whether she was "regularly going to make it."
Rekha, who has done a stunning 180 movies and upwards, came when on-screen characters like Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh and Mumtaz were administering the marquee. In any case, there was something normal about the new contestant. Her exhibitions, regardless of whether it is Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Ghar (for the record, the film is her undisputed top choice and she depicted it as her significant leap forward in "genuine acting"), Umrao Jaan or Ijaazat, mirror the torment, despairing and the lived encounters (of dismissals and heartbreaks) of a vexed life.
"Tum namkeen ho, aur namkeen cheezon ka swaad hamesha zyada yaad rehta hai," Meena Kumari is once accepted to have told Rekha. That announcement gives testimony regarding Rekha's suffering popularity and life span.
She is frequently depicted as a mystery. However, looking at the situation objectively, dislike she's Greta Garbo who warded off herself from the meddlesome press. She was available but, perpetually mysterious. Such a large amount of Rekha and her different undertakings and unconventionalities are out in the open area. We know such a great amount about her and still there's an inclination that we don't have any acquaintance with her enough. That clarifies the film crazed India's limitless want and limit with respect to Rekha-mongering. That likewise clarifies why in any honor service, if Rekha is in front of an audience there's a compulsory shot of a timid Amitabh Bachchan and the other way around.
Regardless of her long unlucky deficiencies from screen, she stays a significant draw. Is Rekha, at that point, in the news only for her alleged issue with Amitabh? The appropriate response is a vehement 'no.' She might be the unending Other Woman in the genuine Silsila of the Amitabh Bachchan adventure however to the extent her Bollywood rep goes, Rekha is the First Lady.
Much like Amitabh, Rekha is the main star of her age who has voyage well throughout the years and matured smoothly. The key distinction among Rekha and her counterparts is that while others wear their age on their sleeves, Rekha looks for all intents and purposes imperishable. Many consider her to be an evergreen wonder, best and in her very own group. Among the more youthful parcel, she directions a 'contact the feet' sort of love.
How did Rekha become so venerated a figure from the "national vamp", in Anupam Kher's brilliant words? Rekha-slamming was at one time a most loved game of the negligible disapproved of motion picture individuals. She was called intolerable names – man eater, dark widow and marriage breaker. This is the equivalent Rekha who supposedly abetted the suicide of her better half.
At the core of India's Rekha love is our tranquil acknowledgment of her as an old, if breathtaking, matron. It's heartbreaking and even ridiculous that despite the fact that she was never thought of as the ideal spouse material she has consistently gone into the domain of a mother figure by method for her widowhood and by and large status in the business plan of things.
At 65, Rekha is at long last tamed. She has transformed into the "Bharat ki nari" that Subhash Ghai was so certain she won't become. It is amazingly that despite the fact that she conveyed the "injuries" in her heart, as her Umrao Jaan executive Muzaffar Ali put it, she is definitely not a "broken individual at last."
Plainly, the agony of being Rekha far surpasses the delights of her fame. There's a cost to pay for popularity and no one realizes that just as the little girl of Gemini Ganesan.
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