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Waheeda Rehman is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 3 february 1938 at Chengalpattu (Inde)

Waheeda Rehman

Waheeda Rehman
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Nationality Inde
Birth 3 february 1938 (86 years) at Chengalpattu (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards

Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress who has appeared in mainly Hindi films, as well as Tamil and Telugu films. She is noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. She has received a Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality, a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Film Award for Best Actress and two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress, throughout her career. She has been cited as the Bollywood's "most beautiful" actress by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity.

Rehman was born in Chengalpattu, Madras Province (now Tamil Nadu), British India. She was in her teens when her father died. Her dream was to become a doctor but, due to her family circumstances and her mother illness, she abandoned her goal. In order, to help her family, she hit the silver screen with Telugu films, Jayasimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Marayi (1955) and a Tamil film Kaalam Maari Pochu (1956). It is in Vijaya-Suresh's Ram aur Shyam (a remake of Telugu movie Ramudu Bheemudu) in 1967 that she acted again under the direction of the topnotch Telugu director Tapi Chanakya
who incidentally directed her movies Rojulu Maaraayi in Telugu (1955) and Kaalam Maaripochu in Tamil (1956).

Her first initial appearance in a Hindi film was in CID (1956). Later, she was seen in a series of successful films including Pyaasa (1957), 12 O'Clock (1958), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1961). Her other notable works include Solva Saal (1958), Baat Ek Raat Ki (1962), Kohra (1964), Bees Sal Baad (1962), Guide (1965), Teesri Kasam, Mujhe Jeene Do (1966), Neel Kamal and Khamoshi (1969).

Best films

Water
Water
(2005)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Waheeda Rehman (74 films)

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Actress

Love in Bombay
Love in Bombay (2013)

Directed by Joy Mukherjee
Actors Joy Mukherjee, Waheeda Rehman, Ashok Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Kishore Kumar, Rehman
Rating60% 3.008273.008273.008273.008273.00827
This film is a simple story of a village boy, Baadal (Joy Mukherjee) who meets a girl from the city, Preeti (Waheeda Rehman) in the most unusual circumstances and the couple eventually fall in love, and wish to get married only to find Preeti’s scheming father, played by Rehman and her fiancé, Roshan try all methods to separate the couple. There’s a lot of drama, jealousy, and a challenge that ensues, but Baadal ends up triumphant through it all. The most fun element was Kishore Kumar‘s character, Ganpat Rao who effortlessly makes you smile from the time he enters the scene. Then there’s the moment of unity for actor brothers, Ashok Kumar and Kishore Kumar which was heartwarming for more reasons than just their screen presence together.
Delhi-6
Delhi-6 (2009)
, 2h18
Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Om Puri, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Divya Dutta
Roles Dadi
Rating61% 3.0991553.0991553.0991553.0991553.099155
Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) accompanies his dying grandmother Annapurna (Waheeda Rahman) to their ancestral property in crowded Delhi. Roshan is initially stunned by the mad rush of neighbours: Ali Baig (Rishi Kapoor) the renaissance man, feuding brothers Madangopal (Om Puri) and Jaigopal (Pavan Malhotra), their wives and families, Mamdu (Deepak Dobriyal) the halwai, Gobar (Atul Kulkarni) the simpleton, Sethji and many others. Roshan eventually warms to the place and wholeheartedly embraces the sense of community. He accompanies his grandmother to the Ramleelas, hangs out at Mamdu's sweet stall, plays with the children, and gradually becomes steeped in the culture.
15 Park Avenue
15 Park Avenue (2006)
, 1h56
Directed by Aparna Sen
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Soumitra Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rahul Bose
Roles Meethi's and Anjali's mother
Rating71% 3.5923253.5923253.5923253.5923253.592325
30-something Mitali aka Meethi (Konkona Sen Sharma) suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her much older, divorced sister Anjali aka Anu (Shabana Azmi) and an ageing mother (Waheeda Rehman). Although she was never married in real life, Meethi has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she got married to her ex-fiancé Joydeep (Rahul Bose) and has five children. While Anu has dedicated her life to taking care of Meethi and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor (Kanwaljeet Singh) on hold, in Meethi's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her kids against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata.
Chukkallo Chandrudu
Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006)

Directed by Siva
Genres Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Sadha, Saloni Aswani, Pratap K. Pothen, Charmi Kaur, Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Rating54% 2.71242.71242.71242.71242.7124
Arjun (Siddharth Narayan) is an NRI who lives with his grandfather (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) and grandmother Padmavathi (Waheeda Rehman). Padmavathi wants Arjun to get married. She also tells Arjun's grandfather but does not take it seriously. Suddenly one morning, Padmavathi dies in her sleep. Arjun's grandfather feels bad that he couldn't fulfill his wife's last wish: to get Arjun married. So he tries to convince Arjun for marriage. Arjun refuses and his grandfather leaves for India, where there are some people who will listen to him and give him respect. Arjun finds out that his grandfather is in India and flies from Germany to India to bring back his grandfather. His grandfather only agrees to come only if Arjun would marry. Arjun, along with the help of his friend Puppy (Sunil), close in on three girls: Shalini (Saloni Aswani), Sravani (Sadha) and Sandhya (Charmme Kaur). Shalini is a tennis player, Sravani is a student who is pursuing MBBS, and Sandhya is women's activist. Incidentally, all three girls happen to be Arjun's childhood friends. Arjun introduced himself as krishna for introducing himself, not like a childhood friend. He started impressing them with his funny and joyful attempts and he succeed to impress three of them and three became very close to him. He was confused to decide whom should he propose in three of them. Arjun decides to randomly draw one of the three names and whoever gets picked, Arjun would try to love that girl.
Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti (2006)
, 2h37
Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Soha Ali Khan, Waheeda Rehman, R. Madhavan
Roles Mrs. Rathod
Rating80% 4.048244.048244.048244.048244.04824
A young, struggling British filmmaker Sue McKinley (Alice Patten) comes across the diary of her grandfather, Mr. McKinley (Steven Mackintosh), who served as a jailer in the Imperial Police during the Indian independence movement. Through the diary, she learns about the story of five freedom fighters who were active in the movement: Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Ram Prasad Bismil. McKinley, in his diary, states that he had met two type of people in his life: the first one... who died without uttering a sound and the second kind ... who died with lots of anguish.. crying over their deaths... McKinley reveals that it was then that he met with the third kind.
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005)

Directed by Jahnu Barua
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Anupam Kher, Urmila Matondkar, Rajit Kapur, Parvin Dabas, Prem Chopra, Waheeda Rehman
Rating72% 3.6177553.6177553.6177553.6177553.617755
The film explores the downward spiral of a retired Hindi professor, Uttam Chaudhary, (portrayed by Anupam Kher) as he falls victim to dementia. After he sees someone carelessly place an ash tray on a newspaper photograph of Mohandas Gandhi, his senility increases. One night his daughter Trisha, played by Urmila Matondkar, and son Karan discover his room on fire. Trisha takes him to a doctor who says nothing can be done.
Water
Water (2005)
, 1h57
Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Vinay Pathak
Roles Bhagavati, Narayan's Mother
Rating76% 3.846033.846033.846033.846033.84603
The film is set in the year 1938, when India was still under British occupation. Child marriage was common practice back then. Widows had a diminished position in society, and were expected to spend their lives in poverty and worship of God. Widow remarriages were legalised by the colonial laws, but in practice, they were largely considered taboo.
Om Jai Jagadish
Om Jai Jagadish (2002)
, 2h52
Directed by Anupam Kher
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Waheeda Rehman, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Mahima Chaudhry, Urmila Matondkar
Roles Saraswati Batra
Rating55% 2.7511752.7511752.7511752.7511752.751175
Saraswati Batra (Waheeda Rehman) is the widowed mother of Om (Anil Kapoor), Jai (Fardeen Khan) and Jagadish (Abhishek Bachchan). Om is responsible and provides the income for the whole family. He works in a music company owned by his friend, Shekhar Malhotra (Parmeet Sethi). Jai is very ambitious (he wants to construct the world's fastest car) and is studying in the United States. His education is paid by Om for which he has taken loan from Shekhar Malhotra. Jagadish is a college student who is very good with computers. Jai soon returns after Om and his mother convinces him.
Lamhe
Lamhe (1991)
, 3h7
Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Manohar Singh, Ila Arun
Roles Daijaan
Rating71% 3.5958653.5958653.5958653.5958653.595865
Virendra "Viren" Pratap Singh (Anil Kapoor) travels to Rajasthan with his governess, affectionately called Dai Jaa (Waheeda Rehman). He meets the beautiful Pallavi (Sridevi) and falls in love with her. However, she is older than he is, though this does not bother Viren. During a property dispute and a court case, Pallavi's father dies of a heart attack. She is shattered and goes into isolation. At the wake, Viren goes to console her, when she runs past him—towards Siddhharth, the man she loves. Viren is heartbroken but, to fulfill Pallavi's father's dying wish, he arranges the wedding between Siddhharth and Pallavi. Allowing Pallavi to live her life happily, Viren leaves for London.
Chandni
Chandni (1989)
, 3h7
Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Waheeda Rehman, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher
Roles Mrs. Khanna (Lalit's mother)
Rating66% 3.3473753.3473753.3473753.3473753.347375
Rohit (Rishi Kapoor) meets Chandni (Sridevi) at a wedding of her relative and falls instantly in love with her. He pursues her relentlessly until she agrees to date him. Eventually they become engaged to be married. His family is very much against this because of the difference in their social status, but Rohit doesn't care. One day, Rohit calls Chandni and asks her to wait for him on the terrace of her house. As she's waiting, the afternoon's silence is broken by the roaring blades of a helicopter. Rohit appears and proceeds to shower Chandni in red rose petals from the copter. When he disappears, she is surrounded again by silence, but she has a feeling something has happened.