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October 27th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Famous TV Star Gauhar Khan says: - “Rekha has so much dignity around her and she is presentable on all occasions. In all her movies she has portrayed all her characters with so much depth.”
I also loves the way Rekha dresses up. “As a kid also I would wait up to watch the award ceremonies as I was always curious to know what Rekha would turn up in.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Film historian Gautam Kaul says:- “Rekha is nearest to the parallel of Swedish actress Greta Garbo… they both came from poor backgrounds and climbed great heights… As an artist she was first noticed in ‘Ghar’ and after that she was no more termed as only a voluptuous artist in Hindi cinema because then came films like ‘Khubsoorat’ and ‘Umrao Jaan’ that set her apart,” “She is enigmatic… because she is hard to get. She only moves in a small circle of senior film people and she shuns the media. That’s also because she is a tragic figure with failed relationships… none of which succeeded, so she has withdrawn into herself. The only place she is now noticed is award functions, which are also picked and chosen. But she still doesn’t give any interviews,” and She is also known for her lifestyle and glossy image.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Renowned film Critic Omar Qureshi says:- “Rekha is a diva… In fact, the term diva (in India) was coined for Rekha. The way she has metamorphosed herself from what she was when she came into the industry is mind blowing… She has worked on her language, body, diction, everything and apart from that she’s a fantastic actress.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Dr. Snehlata Pandey (Mother of Actor Chunkey Pandey)says:- “There was a special ‘Rekha Diet’, Her looks and style are copied throughout India and she even has her book (on yoga and exercises) called ‘Rekha’s Mind and Body Temple’ (1983). She has remained a mystery and what keeps her a legend is that how she has kept it intact so beautifully. She is a complete Jane Fonda.She still inspires the current league of actresses.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Miss India Gul Panag says:-“She is a very good actress… I enjoy seeing her movies. She is very humane and caring. I wish her blessings and good wishes for her birthday.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:54 am
India top Item Girl Rakhi Sawant says:- “There is no one in the industry to compare with Rekhaji as a beauty and as a performer… she is so good. For me, she is the perfect style icon. ‘Jitna chamak unke face par hai, kisi ke chehre par nahin’ .
“She has a perfect nose, pretty eyes and the best part is that she does her make-up on her own. She is in perfect shape. I just love her and adore her. I think she should have a wax statue at Madame Tussaud’s. I wish her a very Happy Birthday.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Top Model cum Actress Mugdha Godse says:- “I admire her and she is the one actress I look up to. I love her unforgettable films like ‘Khoobsurat’. She’s a living legend. I wish her many more happy birthdays and wish to see her more often on the silver screen.”
October 28th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Muzaffar Ali (Director of Umrao Jaan) says:-. She is a dreamer… she lives in her own world. She imagines a lot of things that suit her psyche as an actor. She is a very genuine, warm and a very sensitive person… And no denying the fact a very good learner. It has been an amazing experience to work with her; she is a perfect actress.
Over the years, Rekha has become a reclusive personality. She now loves to be with herself; you can catch a rare glimpse of her at the award functions where she walks in as a quintessential Indian beauty donning a gaudy banarasi saree with open, rumpled hair and down-to-earth persona, even as the onlookers gawk at her in awe, amazed by her charm.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Director Mahesh Bhatt says: - “Rekha” is a rare gem,” “If only I had a suitable script for her, I would cast her without any delay”.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
SHAHRUKH KHAN Says:-
“Like most of us my age group, I have also been in love with Rekha from childhood. She is an extremely beautiful woman. I used to think she was first an extremely good dancer and then a great actor. But those were my boyhood impressions. As I grew up and understood a bit of filmmaking, my ’sequential impressions’ changed and I realised that she is a great actor first, then a dancer. “People say Rekha was her best in Umrao Jaan. But my memories of her remain intact from Mr Natwarlal than Umrao Jaan, where she looked inexpressively beautiful. That’s because in Umrao Jaan, you expect her to be a thespian, a great dancer, one with amazing style and adaayen. But in Mr Natwarlal, there is this one scene (it’s still so fresh in my mind), where she boards a plane with her cattle. There is so much innocence…” “Very few people know what Rekha is all about.
She has kept the world at bay and lets them know what she wants them to know. I have always wondered how she does it. The first time I met her was at Rakesh Shreshta’s studio. I was a new-comer, but she was kind and sweet to me. I remember, once she said she wanted to have coffee with me and my family in Delhi. So, one day she very sweetly called up my in-laws in Delhi and fixed up a date with them. I quite liked that about her. When people reach a certain level, they are very stingy with their compliments and very patronizing, but Rekha is different. She showers you with compliments and makes you feel positive.
Rekha brings a smile to your face, which I think is a quality that all of us, specially the entertainers, should achieve. “There are many other stars and there will be plenty more but Rekha, with her enigmatic personality, remains the original diva of the Hindi film industry. She is what stars are made of.
She is a true-blue star of all eras. I am a disbeliever in things like ‘mystique’ and ‘enigma’ of a star. I believe that the more upfront and clean you are the more normal you come across. It is not special to be special but special to be ordinary. But on the other extreme; there is a lot of beauty in celebrity, requires a lot of power, grit and goodness. And that’s Rekha for me. the fact that it’s special to be special. I think Rekha’s would be a very, very special life. And, to be able to lead such an enigmatic life while sustaining your Her attraction is her enigma.”
Rekha ji is a “capable, disciplined actress with immense range, ability and mastery of precise detail.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
The discovery of Rekha
Rekha is a common Indian name. Perhaps the oldest reference to the word is in the Ramayana the Lakshman Rekha, the line Sita was not to cross. In the event, she did, and the rest, as we all know, is history. Of course, here I’m talking about the name Rekha and not lines and circles. That’s stuff for kids in geometry class.
And again, there are Rekhas and Rekhas. For now, let me concentrate on the one and only, the seemingly ageless screen goddess, and how I met her.
I think it was in 1988. I was returning from a business trip and had boarded the Air India flight at JFK airport in New York. I had an aisle seat in the last row of the 747’s upper deck. As a habit, I don’t drink or eat much on flights. Flying east, it’s even more important to get some rest because one loses so much time. In any case, my days of flirting with the air hostesses and ogling leggy Europeans are over. So it’s a pretty set routine. Get rid of jacket, tie, shoes. `Do not disturb’ sticker on the backrest, mask over the eyes, cottonwool in the ears. Get a little shut-eye. When I woke up, the German in the next seat was getting ready to disembark we had reached London. The hostess announced that transit passengers were to stay on board. I shifted to the window seat and went back to sleep.
Suddenly there was a commotion. A smart young woman had come in and the hostesses were fussing over her, falling over each other in escorting her to her seat. She came and stood by my seat, surveyed the entire cabin as an empress would survey her subjects. “Do you mind shifting? I prefer the window seat.” She appeared to address no one in particular. I could’ve ignored her, but I didn’t. I was in the wrong seat anyway. So I complied and she sat down, looking more out of the window than at the crowd courting her. She seemed lost in her own thoughts. Finally, the hangers-on left after enquiring a hundred times if she needed anything.
I was wondering who she was. The face was very familiar and yet I couldn’t recall the name. I kept glancing sidewaysand her presence bothered me because I couldn’t recognise her. Even she turned her head several times and smiled vaguely. Obviously, she was waiting to be recognised. Maybe it bothered her too. Without her admirers, she looked so vulnerable.
Soon the seat-belt sign went off. Again there was a row of callers, some just saying hello, others asking for autographs. Several times I had to get up so someone could have a picture taken with the queen. I could’ve asked who she was but didn’t want to show my ignorance. Obviously she was important. I sneaked a look at the signatures being doled out. It was only a scrawl. God, what was happening? Half the passengers in the aircraft knew this gorgeous woman, and here was this country hick, sitting next to her, who didn’t even know her name.
The meal service started. I couldn’t concentrate on the food. She seemed to be enjoying her rice and chicken curry, eating with her fingers like a native Madrasi for us North Indians, everyone below the Vindhyas is a Madrasi. Butof course she was a Madrasi! How could I be so naive? She was none other than the the famous film star Rekha Ganesan. Still not sure of my great discovery, I asked very tentatively, “Aren’t you Rekha?” “Indeed, I am” she laughed heartily, “I was beginning to get a complex; I thought you’ll never recognise me. You know, for us filmi folk, this is very important. We might say we dread it; secretly we love it. We revel in the adulation.”
The rest of the flight was very enjoyable. Suddenly she was a new person; no aloofness, no hauteur; just a normal, sensitive human being. This candid superstar turned out to be an excellent conversationalist and she found a good listener in the next seat.
Krishan Kalra
December 9th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
If I was granted several lives by God above and several wishes to fulfil in all those lives, provided I am also gifted with the gifts I have been given to choose from in this life, I would select just a few, very few to be called very few. And one of my choicest wishes would be the wish to look at Rekha, keep looking at her, sit with her, talk to her, look at her gorgeous face, into her mesmerising eyes which have the power to see beyond seeing, hear her voice which has the intensity to bring any human feeling alive, to wonder and keep wondering about the “million circles” (what a title for a book on her life, a life only the chosen ones of Him above can dare to live, are acutely aware of). And His being present with her all the time, through good times and lean times, through dreams and hell fire on earth, through the snow that soothes the soul, through the raging fires that threatens the body and the spirit. I would like to sit before her and would consider myself blessed even if I unravelled a few circles among the million circles she says she has lived through, lived to the full, lived to mystify, mesmerise, make the most hardened non-believers to believe in the glory and goodness of God which He sometimes shows in just one creation, a creation He creates just once in several millenniums, Rekha.
These and several other glorious thoughts swept across my mind (always thirsting to find some new glories of God like Rekha). She had just returned after a concert tour of almost all the major states of America. She had come back home after completing a fascinating forty nights of singing and dancing, songs and dances from almost all the major milestones of her career. There were other major modern generation stars as part of her show but a general genuine survey conducted after the tour was over revealed it was “the Rekha show” all over.
There was Akshay Kumar and Manisha Koirala and Arshad Warsi and Sonu Nigam, the singer who is also a star these days, too, but even they had to agree that it was “the Rekha show” all through. They had to because the survey also revealed that the audience everywhere was in the age group of fifteen to twenty-six. They had seen all the other stars flying in and flying out, flitting in and flitting out of stages like robots on display.
They were now craving to see what the mystery of this mesmerising woman who was slowly growing into a myth who their parents and elders had revelled about was. At the end of all the shows Rekha felt highly gratified to both God and man, soul-satisfied and filled with the quality of confidence she had never felt before because she was given the feeling of being wanted more and more and many times more. Every one present at her show screamed “Rekha Rekha” long after the show was over. Their dils beat for her. Their dils asked for more and more of Rekha, only Rekha.
The first time Rekha went out on her shows abroad was in 1986. It was a grand success. She planned her second show in 1991 but some tragic disturbances came her way and she had to postpone the show by a year. She went back in 1992 and came back with baskets full of dils full of love, so much love that it changed her life completely. It was a gift she had hardly expected. It gave her a heady healing power that helped her overcome all the ugly circles in the million circles her life has taken.
The temptations to do other Rekha shows kept mounting. They wanted more of Rekha again, the amazing Rekha and her mystique. But she took her own time. She always believes in being in the right place at the right time. She waited for seven long years for the right time — 1999. Nothing exceptional was happening in her exotic and extraordinary life. There was no big hit behind her. She was not making news. There was nothing that was inspiring her to reach her mysterious goal which only she knows. She thought of the shows she did in 1986 and 1992. What she had started had become a craze, a way of making money, a way of life for the stars of today.
She took a decision one day. She would do another Rekha show in America after seven years. A strange sense of excitement gripped her. She and her right hand woman, Farzana Jaffri, took things in their hands. They planned everything from the way the concerts would go, the stars who would go with her, the songs she would sing and dance to the way she would mingle with the audience. Her team left for America and once the show started Rekha literally cast a spell on her audience with her miraculous doings. She was flooded with praise from all over, even from the media wherever she performed and Rekha lived upto all the adjectives and adulation she was showered with. She sang and she danced and she held the audience in sway, in the palms of her hands. Her show was seen not only by Indians and Americans who form the majority of the audience at such shows. Her audience came from different parts of the world, from Geneva, from Spain, from Portugal, from the Espaniacs and an entire new generation of youth from different parts of the world for whom Rekha was a revelation. And the enthralling, elevating, enchantress wowed them to their heart’s content. “Magic, magic, more magic,” the audience screamed and she worked magic, especially with her songs from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Silsila, Ghar, Suhaag, Mr Natwarlal and Umrao Jaan. Some even believed she was the reincarnation of Umrao Jaan, the beautiful courtesan who won the hearts of men. Everything she did on stage proved that she was born special, a belief she holds very close to her heart, a belief which keeps her going on and on and on during the last twenty-seven years. There are people who celebrate all kinds of occasions in their lives, all kinds of feasts and galas and events and rituals but for the ravishing Rekha “the Rekha show” this time was “more than all the best festivals put together, a festival I would love to celebrate again when my innerself inspires me again.”
“The Rekha show” has added several mystic circles to the million circles, the million seasons, the million feelings and lives she has lived in just one life. What a wonder woman!
Ali Peter John
January 8th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Actor Upen Patel says:-Rekha is the REKHA. Everything about her is mysterious and alluring. Her style, grace, the way she is portrayed in films. She is also my dad’s favourite actress.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
India’s Top most Dress designer Ritu Beri says:- Diva Rekha is my favorite celebrity client. Really she is a true style icon.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Designer Prabal Gurung says that it is Bollywood diva Rekha is on top of his wish list.
I would love to dress an amazing saree for Rekha. Dressing for incredible women would be a dream come true,I have always thought Rekha looked so beautiful in her traditional sarees.
February 15th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Sonia Mehra (Daughter of late Actor Vinod Mehra) says :- We are very fond to each other. Rekha Ji is my God Mother .I don’t get to meet her very often these days so it was Nice to meet heart the Awards.My father and Rekhaji were just Close Friends. & After my Father’s Death. Rekha ji is there for my Mother (Kiran Mehra) my Brother Rohan and me.Rekhaji is always looking out for me. She is like my Second Mum and She is always there for me .She is my Idol.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Sayed Fida Hussain Shah (very famous Journalist of Pakistan) says:-Being a show biz journalist,fashion critic,compere,living in Matiari,Sindh,Pakistan,yeah let me confess that i love to comment Rekha ji,due to her soften image and sensous power,how she portray herself as a glamourous actress with such a great elegance and grace,her Knati warm brand sarhi,bindi on her fore head gives her such a superb image of typical indian woman,recently iwas watching Marlyn Miro,American actress’s un publsihed fotos before her death,can u belief that in Khoon Bhari Maang,and even in Madam X,Rekha was looking replica of Marlyn Minro,she used same shades of lipstick and eye shadows wat Marlyn is used,but in films,Muzaffer Ali’s Umrao Jaan,and Shashi Kapoor’s Utsav,she portrayed a very different calibre,in Jhooti and her film Khoobsoorat,she has portrayed a typical doestic girl,in Silsila,she was true beloved,wat i love most about her that even she deliver her shot with her eyes and lips also,even her lipstick speaks itself very well,even today,she seems more icon look than Sushmita Sen and Aishwairya Roy,whenevery Aishwariya remind her umrao jaan,she realise that she could not do that film wat Rekha did in the old version,and if she gets teears in her eye,it is best tribute to Rekha jinow its unfortunately writers have vanished,in this age,its time to write special and fully dedicated roles for Rekha ji,it has no doubt that she has given meaning chapter to indian cinema.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Famous Photographer Jayesh Seth says:-Did you know that Rekha had started the personalized theme based photo shoot fad in Bollywood. The camera loves her and she loves the camera. She is completely in love with her beauty and is proud …
February 21st, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Actress Udita Goswami says: - I always dreamed of playing the role of Umrao Jaan, which was played by veteran actress Rekha in the 1980’s blockbuster. But now that the movie has been remade with top Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai in the lead and proved to be a flop she has given up all hopes of ever getting to do that role. “I always wanted to do that role. I was so taken in by the dignity and sensuality of Rekha that it became my dream role.”Apart from different roles, the actress has been doing her own stunts of late.
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Beautiful Katrina Kaif says:- Rekha is the most Beautiful Woman in this World.
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Top Actress Vidhya Balan says:- I admire Rekha ji a lot. She epitomizes the quintessential Indian woman who is vulnerable, desirable, strong, sensuous and so much more. Beyond the obvious South Indian connection of the Kanjeevaram and open hair, to be likened to someone like her, who epitomizes the quintessential Indian woman, is humbling.” I wants to be remembered like her and like Rekhaji I would like to lead life on my own terms and be remembered forever. But I am not so sure how many from today’s brigade will be remembered for so long.”
March 5th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Shilpa Shetty Says: - Rekha had always been a source of inspiration. According to me, she is the perfect Bollywood diva. There’s such a mystique surrounding her. We’ve constantly been in touch to discuss many things,”
Our friendship has gone beyond sharing beauty tips to another level of sharing confidences and philosophies of life. After my spa opening, Rekha sent a letter to me that stating Shilpa was doing everything that she (Rekha) always wanted to do. “It was one of the most heartwarming moments of my life. The two of us are now very close.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Gautam Rajadhyaksha says:- “She is the ultimate cover girl”
She is a great observer and has an elephantine memory. She doesn’t miss a nuance, a word or an action. She remembers and absorbs everything. She can recall what you wore at a certain meeting. From this fat little girl, she metamorphosed into a woman. She had style and class. And in that process, she did some of her best films like Umrao Jaan. When you are talking to her, she is absorbing everything. Sometimes, she has no idea what you are talking about. But she is a good listener. She’ll absorb it, go home, go to a bookstore and buy herself a book that’ll tell her more about the subject. When you meet her next, she’ll be more knowledgeable about the subject. Work is worship for her. I don’t think she has any kind of life or any interest beyond it. She says that beyond work she doesn’t know what to do. And she is eager to create a new image to keep her audiences happy. She is the ultimate cover girl she has reached a plateau now. She has settled down. She understands she is not the golden girl that she was. But she wants to retain her dignity. You will not find her doing ads. She has got so many television offers. She’s intelligent in so many areas whether it is designing jewellery, or clothes or makeup. Her psyche is maturing to the extent that she has so much to show. It’s pity that we don’t have films that Ingrid Bergman or Bette Davis did right through their careers. 50 is just another figure in her life. She is far mature than that. Yet, there are times when she appears childlike. I am privileged to know the real Rekha. She is a very shy person despite what people may think. She takes a long time to open up. She has been hurt too often. It’s a façade that she puts up in public and audiences buy it when she travels she visits museums and tries to learn things. The interviews she gives are interviews that people love to get from her. Over the years, she should be given a chance to express herself in another field — maybe writing. She may not be a great writer but she is great raconteur. But she needs to get things said because she has several lifetimes rolled into one.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Famous Photographer Ashok Salian says:- I first met Rekha in 1993. I’ve been an advertising photographer, but by then I was experimenting with film photography. I had shot all the big names, but had never worked with Rekha. Suddenly, she called me herself, instead of the magazine! She had seen my work and wanted to work with me.
I told her I was too busy, and couldn’t come down for the shoot. Advertising was my career, and film shoots were done on the side, after work. But she was adamant, and said she’d come down to the studio! This was unprecedented behaviour from the filmi crowd, and I was intrigued.
She reached my studio at five, on the dot. She has always been punctual, and this professionalism is something the film industry lacks entirely. It is an irresponsible industry, and all the rumours about her lack of professionalism are untrue. There are tales of Amitabh Bachchan, being the thorough professional, but he’s always been late for my shoots The first thing that strikes you about her is simplicity. Which is a bizarre word to use for someone who has lived a glamorous life. She has never thrown me any attitude.
I was her exclusive photographer from 1993 for the next five years. We shot frequently, often on consecutive days. We’d do about three-four shoots in a month, which is a lot! Most of our sessions were long. I’ve have shot several hundred reels of Rekha! After those five years, I took a sabbatical from film photography. I was tired of the people, the unprofessionality, and just thought I could spend my evenings better without them. Recently, a few years ago, I shot with her again and we just clicked. Nothing has changed between us. It’s wonderful working with someone who loves photography; a lot of film stars treat it like a chore, like its something to get through as soon as possible.
She revels in it, enjoys working at it, and is very inquisitive about the process itself, which makes my job a lot easier. I’ve never spoken technically with her, so I’m not sure how much she understands it, but I can assure you she understands light — at least she understands light that will complement a shot. That is no mean feat. Aesthetically, she’s very organised. As we fiddle with the idea of a different ‘look’, she’ll vanish with her makeup bag, play around barely for fifteen minutes, and come back with a completely new look — which includes makeup, costume, and light. That’s phenomenal! And the energy! She can go on and on. We’ve often shot up to eight different looks in one evening. At the end, I’ve often had to yell, “Stop!” because of exhaustion, but she keeps herself switched on so entirely, and completely. We’ve all had bad days, but she’s so committed. I’ve worked with her while she’s unwell, and the effort she’s put into the shoot is just so special. She’s a narcissistic beauty, surely in love with herself. She knows she’s gorgeous, she enjoys the attention, and she knows the power of a good still, of looking incredible in a single frame. Most of the others are dismissive of still photographs. Akshay Kumar is a rare exception, and preens for the lenses a lot like her, he enjoys it. In fact, I always refer to Akshay as the Rekha of the male bastion!
March 15th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
famous Photographer Ashok Salian says:-
I never shot her in her youthful days. Maybe the fact that I’d shot successfully with other mature beauties like Dimple Kapadia is what gave her the idea to work with me. Like a photographer loves to work with a beautiful model, a good model will have preferences for certain styles of a photographer. The relationship is one of trust, and we have been rather implicit with each other. Her warmth was a huge help. Unlike most actresses, Rekha has a brilliant personal wardrobe. A lot of beautiful actresses — Madhuri Dixit comes to mind, she’s sublimely gorgeous but oh so simple, and her dress sense is so casual, she never made an effort — wear awful clothes off-screen, but Rekha is immaculate. Her collection of saris and jewellery is fascinating. Whenever I’ve run into her at a party, she’s been surrounded by a fan following. Throngs of admirers gather around and follow her, even if they’re all industry people used to celebrity. She just has this aura. She has an androgynously sensual appeal, and is liked universally, across the upper echelons of class and the masses. I think she can switch her charm on and off at will, the artificial filmi façade and the simple girl, depending on the situation. She had a rather peculiar habit, which never stopped freaking me out. We used to shoot Polaroids of the shoots, and dozens and dozens would gather after the day. She’d collect all these Polaroids and make sure I signed them. Each and every single shot! It was crazy! And she’d never forget! We’d have completed a long shoot, and she’d make me sign all the pictures! I still can’t believe it, and she did it every time. It took me ages to just get through all the signing, with her looking on like an eager, but meticulous, little girl. Crazy! One word to describe her would be `stunning’. She just is. Imagine, 50 years old. It’s not like she hides her age, but she has just maintained herself so well. After 40, you see a face start to droop, but she is so unbelievably fit, has such immense energy. It’s fascinating. She’s an icon, and the incredible thing is that she’s been an icon for decades now, but is still as enchanting. I applaud her, and wish her a very happy birthday.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Gautam Rajadhyaksha says:-
I met Rekha pretty late, many years after she came into films. She was off the press because she had a huge problem with another magazine. I sent her a note and she spoke to me. She’s a very private person. At that time, her mind and body temple fitness regime was in the news and those were the pictures that I shot. The whole article was on her concentration on becoming the body beautiful. The relationship we share through the last 20 years is very beautiful. She is a very nice, sensitive and warm person. Over the years, she has become more beautiful as a human being. And that reflects as a refinement of her presentation. One can talk of her graph as a crude, loud and fat South Indian girl — very ‘namkeen’ as Meena Kumari called her. Meena Kumari had said ‘meetha kitna khaoge namkeen bahut khaya jata hai.Rekha called her Meena appa. She was friendly with the older lot of actresses. So I think that namkeen quality is very well in its place. But I think somewhere the knocks that life gave her sobered her down. They are a revelation that life is much more than glamour, money and being adored by men. She has led a lavish life with cars, bungalows, making acchar, going to [director] S S Vasan’s place for Dassera and getting a little gift there, her mother taking her and her siblings for a samosa treat in the Chennai airport and the endearing family traditions. She enjoyed it all, but with that was a feeling of being neglected when her father Gemini Ganesan moved on to other pastures. Her mother did not have time for her children because she wanted to dedicate her time to her slipping career. One story goes that whenever anybody gave them any gifts, the kids would buy stuff and whatever was left, they’d put them in these acchar jars. They would stuff money there to prevent bad times. Rekha was recalled from boarding school and told that she would have to work. Even then, for about a year, there was no work. They’d dip into these acchar jars, which could hardly be called savings. They were just leftovers from other expenses. Then a time came when she lived her dreams, became a star and was loved by people. The film Ghar changed her. With her signing amount, she bought a house. She said that suddenly she had to do something for the house. She stopped wearing garish clothes and she withdrew into herself. That must’ve been the time when the external metamorphosis must’ve taken place. That was the turning point in her life.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Dream Girl Hema Malini ji Says:- Rekha is very good friend of mine. We have always been there for each other during the good and bad phases of our lives.”
We have never competed with each other. We both share a good rapport as we both are from South India. Just like my mother, her mother was very keen to bring her in cinema. Her mother came to me first when they landed in Mumbai. Her mother and my mother share same birth date. Even today she calls up to chat. We have very sweet bonding.
April 11th, 2010 at 9:43 am
The very famous Boxer Vijender Singh says: - The best part of the Padam shri award ceremony was Rekha. Rekhaji is still a Diva and so beautiful. I am a Big fan of her and we both spoke for a long time. Really it was the Great day of my Life.
April 17th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Chitrangada Singh says:- “Right from my childhood I have been a great fan of Glamour’s Rekha. I used to idolize her and after her terrific performance in Khoon Bhari Mang, I wanted to be every bit of her. But my all time favourite was her glamorous look in Umrao Jaan,”
April 25th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Sonam Kapoor says:-Apart from my Papa who’s my “mentor, philosopher and guide” my life influenced by Rekha.Her enduring “aura” and magnificent screen presence fascinates me a lot.
May 12th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Oscar Winner Resul Pookutty says: - I am sooo excited when I got to sit with Rekha at the Padma Shri awards in Delhi. “We’ve met before and I have exchanged pleasantries with her – she said she loves me. I can’t even believe that I sat next to her.
May 12th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hollywood actress Noureen DeWulf says:-I love Bollywood. I grew up watching Bollywood films like ‘Sita Aur Geeta, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Coolie and so many. There is a lot of talent there and if an opportunity is there and presented in a right format, I’d love to do a Bollywood film,” It my great wish that I share screen space with ageless beauty Rekha. “I’d love to work with Rekha. I like her. She is so beautiful and she is a great actress. I love (her) ‘Silsila’ a lot… I’ve watched it so many times.
June 1st, 2010 at 11:45 am
Director Pradeep Sarkar says:- Rekha is a perfect blend of Beauty and Glamour.
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:46 am
Fashion Designer Manish Malhotra says:-”Rekha is a living legend. Her metaphoric journey from the time she entered the industry as a teenager to becoming the style diva is so fascinating… it would be wonderful to know about her magnificent journey in her own words,”
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Actress Koena Mitra says: “Rekha is a flamboyant personality and has a lot of mystery around her. There are so many things I would love to know about her.”
July 15th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
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