Rekha (Tamil: ரேகா, Hindi: रेखा, Urdu: ریکھا), born October 10, 1954, is a National Film Award-winning popular Bollywood actress. She is considered to be the eternal Diva of the Bollywood film industry. Throughout the 1970s till date she has been considered as a Sex Symbol icon, known for her beauty, acting talent and dancing skills. She has acted in over 180 films in her career, taking part both in the Indian mainstream cinema as well as in parallel cinema, having commercial success as an actress, as well as critical acclaim for her strong performances down the years.
Born in 1954, in Chennai, India, Bhanurekha Ganesan (later known simply as "Rekha") is the daughter of renowned Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan and the Telugu actress Pushpavalli. Her father enjoyed phenomenal success and Rekha was to follow in his footsteps.
Rekha's parents were not married, and her father did not acknowledge his paternity during her childhood. It was during the early 1970s, when she was looking for a...
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Krrish is a Bollywood science fiction superhero film directed by Rakesh Roshan, which released on June 23, 2006. The film is a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya. The movie stars Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha and Preity Zinta in a special appearance. It has been subsequently dubbed in Tamil and Telugu.Rohit (Hrithik Roshan) and Nisha (Preity Zinta) are married and they have a child, Krishna. Rohit apparently dies in a lab accident in Singapore and Nisha also dies shortly after childbirth at the news of her husband's apparent death. The child, Krishna, starts growing up under the care of his grandmother Sonia (Rekha). As he is growing up, he discovers that he has inherited the superpowers that were transferred to his father by the alien Jadoo in the previous installment, Koi... Mil Gaya. The movie shows how Krishna (Hrithik Roshan) deals with his powers and saves the world from a megalomaniac scientist, Dr. Siddhant Arya (Naseeruddin Shah).As the head of a large...,
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Parineeta (Hindi: परिणीता, Urdu: پرنیتا, translation: The Married Woman) is a Bollywood musical adaptation of the 1914 Bengali novella, Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar, based upon a screenplay by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the movie featured Saif Ali Khan as Shekhar, Sanjay Dutt as Girish, Vidya Balan as Lalita, and Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator.
This movie was well received all over India and abroad .
This film adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 novella, Parineeta, places the story in Kolkata of 1962. This adaptation (which deviates slightly from the original storyline of the novella ) centers around a young woman, Lalita (Vidya Balan), who was orphaned as a child. She lives with the family of her uncle, Gurucharan (Achyut Potdar). Gurucharan has a daughter, Koel (Raima Sen), who is very close to Lalita.
When Gurucharan had a heart attack three years prior, he had to borrow a large sum of money from his neighbor, Navin Rai (...
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Koī... Mil Gayā (Hindi: कोई मिल गया, Urdu: کوئ مل گیا, translation: I Found Someone) is a 2003 Bollywood science fiction film, directed by Rakesh Roshan (who also has a cameo role), starring Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, and Preity Zinta, and released on August 8 2003. The film shares many plot elements with Steven Spielberg's E.T. and Satyajit Ray's The Alien, and may have been inspired by them. (Incidentally, E.T. was itself inspired by the script for the The Alien.[citation needed]) Some scenes also appear to have been inspired by Flubber. Koi... Mil Gaya is said to have inspired an Indonesian television series Si Yoyo, which also features a miraculous alien visitor. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Denmark NatFilm FestivalRakesh Roshan has produced a sequel to the film titled Krrish, which opened worldwide on June 23, 2006 and has also become successful.
A Sindhi scientist named Sanjay Mehra (played by the film's director Rakesh Roshan) creates a...,
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Bhoot is a Bollywood film released in 2003. "Bhoot" ( भूत )is the Nepali and Hindi word for ghost and the movie deals with the supernatural. It was directed by Ram Gopal Varma and stars Urmila Matondkar and Ajay Devgan. It was perceived to be different from a typical Bollywood movie as it did not contain songs. It became a hit and was remade in Tamil under the title Shock starring Meena and Prashanth.
The film revolves around Vishal (Ajay Devgan), a stock analyst, and his wife Swati (Urmila Matondkar). The two are in search for a flat in Mumbai. Vishal finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building. However, the apartment has a horrifying past. The previous occupant of the flat, a young woman had killed her child and jumped from the balcony and died. Swati learns about this incident shortly after moving in and becomes oddly fixated with the story. Then, a series of inexplicable experiences drive Swati to near madness.
Vishal becomes helpless and convinced...
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Dil Hai Tumhaara (Hindi: दिल है तुम्हारा, Urdu: دل ہے تمہارا, English: My Heart Is Yours) is a 2002 Bollywood romantic comedy and family film starring Rekha, Preity Zinta, Mahima Chaudhry, Arjun Rampal, Jimmy Shergill and Alok Nath.
The film is about two sisters, Nimmi and Shalu (Mahima Chaudhry and Preity Zinta) and their individual relationship with their mother, Saritaji (Rekha). Unknown to the two girls, Shalu and Nimmi are only half-sisters, as Shalu is the daughter of Saritaji's husband with the woman he had been having an affair with. Her hidden parentage causes Saritaji to openly pay more affection to her own daughter while ignoring Shalu.
Eventually a young man named Dev Khanna (Arjun Rampal) enters both their lives. Dev and Shalu initially do not get along but soon fall in love. However, circumstances make Nimmi believe that Dev is in love with her, not Shalu. Her mother, only aware of Nimmi's side of the story, offers a marriage proposal to Dev's father (Nath). When...,
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Zubeidaa (Hindi: ज़ुबैदा, Urdu: زبیدہ) is a 2001 film directed by Shyam Benegal and written by Khalid Mohammed. Zubeidaa stars Karisma Kapoor, Rekha, Manoj Bajpai, Surekha Sikri, Rajat Kapoor, Lillete Dubey, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal and Shakti Kapoor.
It is the concluding chapter in a trilogy that began with Mammo (1994) and continued with Sardari Begum (1996).
The author of the books was killed when the movie came out. It is widely believed that the family of the Raja portrayed in the film did not want the story publicized. The movie hints to this at the end.
The film garnered a Best Film (Regional, Hindi) citation from the National Film Awards and won Karishma Kapoor a Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics').
Zubeidaa is the story of a young man’s search to understand his mother who is not known to him. Zubeidaa (Karisma Kapoor) is the only daughter of a filmmaker Suleman Seth (Amrish Puri). Zubeidaa acts in films secretly but when her father finds out he forbids her to carry...
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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 motion picture directed by Mira Nair. The film takes its title from the ancient Indian text, the Kama Sutra, but this only serves as a common link between the characters. It is a sweeping drama with a powerful story about relationships.
During filming in India, the name of the project was not revealed to government officials who would have denied the petition to film in India had it been called "Kama Sutra." Instead, it was called "Maya & Tara." Since government officials made many periodic visits to the set to ensure 'proper Indian film etiquette' — as is true with all films made in India — the cast had to improvise fake scenes which avoided the nudity and sexuality central to the story. Upon completion, authorities screened the film and it was subsequently banned in both India and Pakistan because of the erotic scenes that contained heterosexual as well as homosexual elements (the lesbianism was depicted in an explicit scene, whereas the...
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Ijaazat is an acclaimed 1987 Indian Hindi film directed by Gulzar. It starred Rekha and Naseeruddin Shah in a leading role.
The movie is a powerful story of a person who wastes his life for the sake of a mentally unstable woman. The story is very sad and heart breaking, with an end worth watching. Actor Nasseruddin Shah and Rekha's convincing performances are admirable. The overall plot is this: Mahinder (Nasseruddin Shah) loves Maya (Anuradha Patel). She refuses to marry him because she doesn't believe in marriage. So Mahinder gets married to his childhood friend Sudha (Rekha). He tells her about his relationship with Maya. These circumstances create difficulties in their married life. Eventually, Sudha leaves Mahinder and continues working as a teacher in another town. After many years they accidentally meet in a railway station waiting room and discover some truths about their lives without each other.
The film has four songs sung by Asha Bhosle, who is the only playback singer in...
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Silsila is a 1981 Bollywood movie directed by Yash Chopra. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bhaduri, Sanjeev Kumar and Rekha. The film is said to be based on Amitabh Bachchan's personal life as in late 70's and early 80's, the romance between Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha was the most talked about news from Hindi film industry.Orphaned at very young ages, Shekhar and Amit Malhotra are survivors and lead independent lives with Shekhar being a Squadron Leader with the Indian Air Force, and Amit a struggling writer. While Shekhar has fallen in love with lovely Shobha, Amit woos an attractive Chandni. Both brothers plan to marry together. But fate has something much worse in store for them when Shekhar is killed in a plane crash, leaving behind a pregnant and devastated Shobha. Taking pity on Shobha's plight, Amit marries her and writes to Chandni to forget him. This news breaks Chandni's heart, and she goes on to marry Dr. V.K. Anand, who is very much in love with her....
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Umrao Jaan (Urdu: امراؤ جان, Hindi: उमराव जान) is a Bollywood film released in 1981. It is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jan Ada (1905), written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa. The film starred Bollywood actress Rekha.In the year 1840, a young girl named Amiran (Seema Sathyu) is kidnapped from her family by their neighbour, Dilawar Khan (Satish Shah) and sold to Madam Khanum Jaan (Shaukat Kaifi) who owns a brothel where she trains courtesans (tawaif). Amiran, renamed Umrao Jaan, learns to read, write, dance, sing, and charm wealthy men. She is no common prostitute, but a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste.A grown-up Umrao Jaan, (Rekha), catches the eye of Nawab Sultan (Farooq Shaikh), and the two fall in love. But the Nawab must marry to please his family, and Umrao's heart is broken.She meets a dashing bandit chieftain, Faiz Ali (Raj Babbar), who wooes and wins her. She flees with her dacoit, hoping to marry him and leave the world of the courtesan far behind. But her...
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Kalyug is a Hindi film made in 1981, and was directed by Shyam Benegal. The film is known as a modern day version of an Indian mythological epic Mahabharat. The screenplay and plot was quite different from Mahabharat. However, the characterization and the critical events had a striking similarity with the epic. Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Raj Babbar, Supriya Pathak, Anant Nag, Kulbhushan Kharbanda played the major roles.
Urmila Matondkar appeared as a child artist.
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Jaani Dushman is a 1979 Bollywood popular horror film with a large starcast including Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Mehra, Sanjeev Kumar, Neetu Singh, Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Aruna Irani, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor and Premnath. It was directed by Rajkumar Kohli.
Jwala Prasad is to marry the girl of his dreams. On the day of the marriage, she dressed all in red, as is the tradition in India. Just before the wedding she slips off to meet her real lover. When Jwala finds out, he is so enraged at he turns into a monster and kills both the to-be bride and her male friend. The saga does not end here, and this monster continues to terrorize the region, first abducting brides dressed in red just before the wedding procession stops at a Mandir (temple). When a to-be groom finally confronts and kills the monster, it leaves the body of Jwala Prasad and possesses the body of its killer. And the terror continues. Years late another male has now killed this creature, and...
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Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (Hindi: मुक़द्दर का सिकंदर, Urdu: مقدر کا سکندر) is a 1978 Indian Hindi film. Directed by Prakash Mehra, it stars Amitabh Bachchan in his 3rd out of 6 films with Prakash Mehra to date. The films also stars Vinod Khanna, Raakhee Gulzar, Rekha and Amjad Khan.Orphaned and abused at a very young age, a young boy faces the harsh side of life as he struggles to make a living by slaving day and night. He gets empathy from a little girl, Kaamna, in whose house he works. Her dad, Ramnath, does not like him, and asks him to leave. He is adopted by a Muslim woman, Fatima, who decides to name him Sikander. Shortly thereafter, Fatima dies, leaving young Sikander with the responsibility of looking after her daughter, Mehroo. Years later, Sikander has grown up (Amitabh Bachchan) and amassed a fortune by turning in smuggled goods to the police, and getting generous rewards. He has still not forgotten Kaamna (Raakhee) from his childhood. He finds out where she lives, and buys the...
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Rekha Ganesan was born in Chennai, India
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