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Rekha: The suffering notoriety and agony of Bollywood

On Rekha's 66th birthday celebration today, here's our tribute to the Umrao Jaan star's confounding life and how a film fixated India takes a gander at her, with amazement and tons of riddle.

Rekha, who has done a stunning 180 movies and upwards, came when entertainers like Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh and Mumtaz were administering the marquee. 


From the hour of her teenaged Bollywood debut in Anjana Safar to Super Nani, Rekha has lingered very huge in the public cognizance. In some sense, she is a commendable legacy, or an inheritor on the off chance that you decide to see it that way, to the exemplary champions of the yesteryear like Madhubala and Meena Kumari. Awfully, with the last mentioned, she shares a lot of practically speaking. For both, superstardom came at an extraordinary individual expense. Love, connections and homegrown euphoria were rare. Men were immediately their raison d'etre and enemy. 


On her 66th birthday celebration, we investigate her history, Rekha: The Untold Story, composed by Yasser Usman, which endeavors to deliver the unprecedented character however it takes the natural course that kept tattle and fan magazines of a specific period available for use – Rekha's scurrilous individual life. 


Like Meena, Rekha had a troublesome youth. While Meena's abba left her in a halfway house just to return and discover ants creeping everywhere on the infant's body, Rekha's dad, the incomparable Gemini Ganesan's blessing to Rekha was far more awful – the long lasting condemnation of being Gemini Ganesan's ill-conceived little girl. Rekha's need of and insurance from men for a mind-blowing duration can be seen through the wrongness crystal. 


As though the youth stuff wasn't sufficient, Rekha's own life as a star turned into a ground on which numerous a landmark was battled. Incidentally, 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 ignoble" and contemplated whether she was "ever going to make it." 


Yet, make it, she did. 

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Rekha packed away the National Award for her exhibition in Umrao Jaan. 


Rekha, who has done a stunning 180 movies and upwards, came when entertainers like Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh and Mumtaz were administering the marquee. However, there was something normal about the new participant. 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 advancement in "genuine acting"), Umrao Jaan or Ijaazat, mirror the torment, despairing and the lived encounters (of dismissals and heartbreaks) of a grieved 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 regularly depicted as a conundrum. However, looking at the situation objectively, dislike she's Greta Garbo who got herself far from the meddlesome press. She was open but, everlastingly mysterious. Such an extensive amount Rekha and her different issues and unconventionalities are out in the public 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 regards to Rekha-mongering. That likewise clarifies why in any honor function, if Rekha is in front of an audience there's a required shot of a timid Amitabh Bachchan and the other way around. 


Notwithstanding her long nonattendances 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 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 voyaged well throughout the long term and matured effortlessly. The key distinction among Rekha and her counterparts is that while others wear their age on their sleeves, Rekha looks essentially ever-enduring. Many consider her to be an evergreen delight, best and in her very own class. Among the more youthful parcel, she orders a 'contact the feet' sort of adoration. 


Rekha Despite her long nonattendances from screen, she stays a significant draw.


How did Rekha become so loved a figure from the "public vamp", in Anupam Kher's bright words? Rekha-slamming was before a most loved game of the insignificant disapproved of film individuals. She was called grievous names – man eater, dark widow and marriage breaker. This is a similar Rekha who purportedly abetted the self destruction of her better half. 


At the core of India's Rekha love is our peaceful acknowledgment of her as an old, if fabulous, matron. It's unfortunate and even absurd that despite the fact that she was never thought of as the ideal spouse material she has flawlessly passed into the domain of a mother figure by method of her widowhood and by and large position in the business plan of things. 


At 66, 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 shockingly that despite the fact that she conveyed the "injuries" in her heart, as her Umrao Jaan chief Muzaffar Ali put it, she is certainly not a "broken individual at long last." 


Unmistakably, the torment of being Rekha far exceeds the delights of her fame. There's a cost to pay for notoriety and no one realizes that just as the little girl of Gemini Ganesan.

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