Bhanurekha Ganeshan was born on 10th October 1954 Unlike most actresses, Rekha started her
career as a child artist. She later revealed that this was more out of need
than her desire. After initially struggling to come to terms with the industry
norms, she soon established herself. Her first movie was the Telugu film
Rangula Ratnam where she played the role of a child. Goa Dalli CID 999 was her
first successful hit as a lead heroine, where she was paired opposite
Rajkumar. Do Shikaari, which had quite a
lot of songs, was her first Hindi movie. She had to share a kissing scene with
actor Biswajit, which she later revealed to have done owing to her naivety back
then.
According to the norms back then, Rekha was deemed to be too
fat, not having a complexion or face for cinema and was termed an ugly duckling.
As is the problem with heroines from down south, Rekha too had her share of
troubles reciting dialogues in Hindi.
After working and drawing some praise for her performances
in movies such as Praan Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye and Do Anjaane, she still had
to bear a lot of criticism. She was criticised for her physical features and
comparisons with her contemporaries made her sadder.
Her portrayal of a gang raped married woman in Ghar is
considered by many as the turning point for her career. The movie did very well
at the box office and her performance, chemistry with Vinod Mehra and the
brilliant song sequences were widely praised. She later played myriad variety
of characters in movies such as Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Khubsoorat, Silsila and
Umrao Jaan; all of which were huge hits. The significant factor about all these
films was the portrayal of roles. While in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar she played
Zohra Bai a courtesan, in Khubsoorat she had to play a girl next door. Yash
Chopra cast her in a very complex role of a slightly unfaithful wife in Silsila
while in Umrao Jaan she had the central character of a courtesan. The choice of
roles coupled with her linkups with her co-stars Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod
Mehra ensured that she stayed in the media limelight.
She moved to a slightly unconventional genre of parallel
cinema in the mid 1980’s. While some of the movies had a bold theme, they all
worked for her. She got to share the screen space with some of the finest
directors of the era. After parallel cinema, she tried her hand at action
movies by starring in films such as Madam X, Khoon Bhari Maang (Which fetched
her filmfare award) and Khilaadiyon Ka Khiladi.
Rekha sparingly appeared in movies since the turn of the
century. She did few films such as Lajja, Bachke Rehna Re Baba, Koi… Mil Gaya
and Krrish. Her achievement stems from the fact that she has worked in as many
as 180 films over a career spanning 4 decades.
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