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Rekha is a Actor and Writer Indian born on 10 october 1954 at Chennai (Inde)

Rekha

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Birth name Bhanu Rekha Ganesan
Nationality Inde
Birth 10 october 1954 (69 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards

Rekha Ganesan (born 10 October 1954), better known by her stage name Rekha, is an Indian film actress who has mainly appeared in Hindi films. Noted for her versatility and acknowledged as one of the finest actresses in Hindi cinema, Rekha started her career in 1966 as a child actress in the Telugu film Rangula Ratnam, though her film debut as a lead happened four years later with Sawan Bhadon. Despite the success of several of her early films, she was often panned for her looks and it was not until the mid-to-late 1970s that she got recognition as an actress.

Rekha has acted in over 180 films in a career spanning over 40 years. Throughout her career, she has often played strong female characters and, apart from mainstream cinema, appeared in arthouse films, known in India as parallel cinema.
She has won three Filmfare Awards, two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress, for her roles in Khubsoorat (1980), Khoon Bhari Maang (1988) and Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996), respectively. Her portrayal of a classical courtesan in Umrao Jaan (1981) won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. Though her career has gone through certain periods of decline, she has reinvented herself numerous times and has been credited for her ability to sustain her status. In 2010, she was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Biography

In 1990, Rekha married Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Aggarwal. A year later—while she was in London—he committed suicide, after several previous attempts, leaving a note, "Don't blame anyone". She was pilloried by the press at that time, a period which one journalist termed as "the deepest trough in her life." Bhawana Somaaya observed the period speaking of "a strong anti-wave against the actress — some called her a witch, some a murderess," but added that soon "Rekha came out of the eclipse once again unblemished!"

She was rumoured to have been married to actor Vinod Mehra in 1973, but in a 2004 television interview with Simi Garewal she denied being married to Mehra referring to him as a "well-wisher". Rekha currently lives in her Bandra home in Mumbai.

Usually with

Jeetendra
Jeetendra
(27 films)
Ranjeet
Ranjeet
(26 films)
Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor
(16 films)
Aruna Irani
Aruna Irani
(24 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rekha (182 films)

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Actress

Fitoor
Fitoor (2016)

Directed by Abhishek Kapoor
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Katrina Kaif, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rekha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Tabu, Ajay Devgn
Roles Begum
Rating54% 2.702232.702232.702232.702232.70223
Based on Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, the story revolves around a young boy- Pip- and events that change his life completely.
Shamitabh
Shamitabh (2015)

Directed by R. Balakrishnan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, Akshara Haasan, Rekha, Abhinaya, Mahesh Bhatt
Roles Self
Rating66% 3.348073.348073.348073.348073.34807
Daanish (Dhanush), born mute in rural Igatpuri, loves films. He acts out scenes before his class, amazing his peers and teacher, and spends all his time in the local Paradise theatre. He even tries to board a Mumbai bus to go become a film star but is pulled off by his mother's friends. When he grows up, Daanish brings pakodas to the local video-store owner and watches films every day. His mother feigns illness and keeps him from going to Mumbai but when she dies, Daanish leaves for Mumbai.
Super Nani
Super Nani (2014)

Directed by Indra Kumar
Genres Drama
Actors Rekha, Sharman Joshi, Randhir Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajesh Kumar, Shreya Narayan
Roles Bharti Bhatia (Chunni)
Rating47% 2.374132.374132.374132.374132.37413
The movie begins with a guy called Mann (Sharman Joshi) video interviewing some people for a job. He gives them the job description and they ask how much the salary is. He replies saying nothing which leaves them all shocked. They question him and he says there are many people who do this job for nothing in this world, our mothers. They all praise their mothers and agree that mothers are the ones who do this job and that too for free.
Krrish 3
Krrish 3 (2013)
, 2h32
Directed by Rakesh Roshan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Superhero films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Oberoi, Rajpal Yadav, Arif Zakaria
Rating53% 2.651382.651382.651382.651382.65138
Scientist Rohit Mehra lives with his son Krishna "Krrish" Mehra (both played by Hrithik Roshan) in Mumbai. Krishna is married to Priya (Priyanka Chopra) who works as a journalist for Aaj Tak. Rohit works in a research institute for the Indian government and Krishna, while moon lighting as the superhero Krrish, is regularly fired from various day jobs due to lack of attendance. Rohit is researching on a device that will bring life to dead tissues by the use of solar energy. Despite several attempts, he fails to complete the experiment due to the high intensity of sun rays. On a usual day, Krishna loses his job from the security wing of a company when he hears news about an aeroplane whose front tyres are stuck due to some malfunctioning which creates high risk, even if landed, it may explode and so will the passengers inside. Krishna immediately changes himself to Krrish and saves the plane from accident by holding the component to make tyres free to roam.
Thalaivaa
Thalaivaa (2013)
, 3h3
Directed by A. L. Vijay
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action
Themes Gangster films
Actors Vijay, Amala Paul, Sathyaraj, Rajeev Govinda Pillai, Abhimanyu Singh, Ragini Nandwani
Roles Ganga Ramadurai
Rating62% 3.1484253.1484253.1484253.1484253.148425
Vishwa (Vijay) is a dancer who lives in Sydney, Australia. He also manages a water distribution business there with his childhood friend Logu (Santhanam) and his dance team members. He is the son of Ramadorai (Sathyaraj), a Mumbai-based don who fights for the rights of the Tamil-speaking migrants in the city. Ramadorai had sent Vishwa away to Australia when he was a child for his safety and although they are in regular contact, he lies to Vishwa that he is a businessman.
Money Money More Money, 1h51
Directed by J. D. Chakravarthy
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors J. D. Chakravarthy, Chalapathi Rao, Mukul Dev, Brahmanandam, Gajala, Tara Alisha Berry
Roles Geetha Madhuri
Rating45% 2.2516352.2516352.2516352.2516352.251635
Four small time crooks, Chakri (J. D. Chakravarthy), Raghu (Bramhaji), Abbas (Mukul Dev) and Gogineni Gangaraju aka Goga (Kevin Dave) turn towards kidnapping for some quick money. They kidnap Megahana (Tara Alisha), daughter of a millionaire Jagadish (Nagababu) and they demand money (1 crore). They are forced to barge into the home of a vegetarian family of 35. The head of the household is Khan Dada (Bramhanandam), a ex-don and rival of Chakri.
Sadiyaan
Sadiyaan (2010)
, 2h42
Directed by Raj Kanwar
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rekha, Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Luv Sinha, Feryna Wazheir, Javed Sheikh
Roles Amrit Kaur
Rating46% 2.3218752.3218752.3218752.3218752.321875
During the 1947 partition, the Lahore based family of Rajveer (Rishi Kapoor) and Amrit (Rekha) has to flee Pakistan and settle in Amritsar, Punjab. In the house that they get to stay, Amrit finds an abandoned baby boy of the Muslim family who owned the house but fled to Pakistan because of communal riots. Amrit raises the boy as her own and he grows up to be Ishaan (Luv Sinha). During a summer camp visit to Kashmir, Ishaan falls in love with Chandni (Ferena Wazeir). When he goes to her house to ask her hand in marriage, her father (Deep Dhillon) and uncle (Ahmed Khan) tell him to forget her as they are against her marrying a Sikh boy. When Amrit and Rajveer come to know about this they finally declare the truth to Ishaan that he is a Muslim in reality and not their own child. He doesn't believe them and Chandni's parents refuse to believe it without proof. The old couple then decide to track Ishaan's real parents down and also succeed. Ishaan's real mother, Benazir (Hema Malini) comes down with his real father (Javed Sheikh) to take back custody of a now grown up Ishaan. Chandni's parents immediately agree to the marriage when Ishaan's real parents visit their house. What complications arise when Ishaan's parents start making plans to take back Ishaan and his bride back to Pakistan and how they are handled by the principal characters forms the rest of the plot.
2 Harihar Nagar, 1h41
Directed by Paul Michael, Lal
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Mukesh, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Siddique, Lena, Ashokan, Raai Laxmi
Roles Sister Josephine (guest appearance)
Rating65% 3.2874853.2874853.2874853.2874853.287485
The movie starts with a flashback, in front of a church, in 1980 when the four main characters were children. This scene the beginning of their friendship. Thomas Philip (a.k.a. Thomas Kutty) loses money to a scam artist, who responds to his complaints with violence. He is rescued by the other three who respond to his calls of distress. They then invite Thomas Kutty to join their group who, above all, vow never to cheat on one another. The scene is transitioned by the quote "Thomas kutty Vittodaa!" (Thomas kutty, time to run!) once the scam artist brings his friends to return the beating he got.
Dasavatharam, 3h5
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Origin Inde
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Transport films, Musical films, Political films, Disaster films
Actors Kamal Haasan, Asin Thottumkal, Mallika Sherawat, K. R. Vijaya, Nagesh, P. Vasu
Roles Meenakshi Ragavendra
Rating72% 3.6473253.6473253.6473253.6473253.647325
Bio-scientist Govindarajan Ramaswamy speaks at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. He begins by reciting events from the 15th century in Chidambaram, when King Kulothunga Chola II, a Saivite, persecutes Vaishnavites and intends to destroy an idol of Govindaraja. Rangarajan Nambi, a Vaishnavite, protects it and offends the king, who orders Rangarajan to be executed by being submerged into the sea with the idol, succeeding.
Yatra
Yatra (2007)

Directed by Goutam Ghose
Actors Rekha, Nana Patekar, Deepti Naval, Rekha, Romit Raj, Jeeva
Roles Lajvanti
Rating61% 3.094423.094423.094423.094423.09442
Dasrath Joglekar (Nana Patekar), a celebrated writer, travels to Delhi to receive the prestigious Literary Award. During the journey he meets a young film maker (Nakul Vaid), an ardent fan of Dasrath’s writing and the encounter brings back memories from the past. Both of them travel back in time, remembering characters from Dasrath’s celebrated novel Janaza, reconstructing the true story of the novel's protagonist – Lajvanti (Rekha) from their own perspective. Fact and fiction merge to create a new journey.
Om Shanti Om, 2h42
Directed by Farah Khan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Ghost films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Kiron Kher, Shreyas Talpade, Arjun Rampal, Javed Sheikh
Roles Self, special appearance in "Deewangi Deewangi" (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3511853.3511853.3511853.3511853.351185
Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) is a junior artist in the 1970s Hindi film industry, in love with film star Shanti Priya (Deepika Padukone). One evening, Om views the premiere of Shanti's film Dream Girl, posing as Manoj Kumar. Later that night, Om becomes drunk and describes his vision of himself as a famous, wealthy film star winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actor to his friend Pappu (Shreyas Talpade) and some local children. At the shooting of a later film, Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where of the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. One day, after following Shanti, he overhears her and producer Mukesh Mehra's (Arjun Rampal) conversation, that Mukesh and Shanti have married in secret and Shanti is pregnant and expects a traditional wedding. Mukesh pretends to be happy with the news, and invites Shanti at the set of their soon-to-be-made film Om Shanti Om. Mukesh promises to cancel the film, reveal their marriage to the public, and have a grand wedding on the set; but instead traps Shanti on the set and sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and to protect his career. Shanti tearfully begs Mukesh to release her but he leaves anyway.
Pachakuthira
Directed by Kamal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Dileep, Gopika, Salim Kumar, Rosshan Andrrews, Siddique, A. M. Fazil
Roles Akash's foster mother
Rating44% 2.231632.231632.231632.231632.23163
A junior artist in movies, Anandakkuttan, meets his long-lost German brother, Akash Menon. However, his brother is mentally unstable and he causes trouble to everyone including the neighbors. Initially Anandakkuttan hates Akash Menon, but finally he develops a bond between his brother and himself. This film has similarity to the English movie Rain Man.