Winner of the National Award for Best Actress for her performance as the bewitching courtesan in Muzaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan (1981), she has also picked up the Filmfare Best Actress award for her effervescent and perky performance in Khubsoorat (1980), and her avenging wife avatar in Khoon Bhari Maang (1988), as well as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996), in which she played a role with shades of grey. With a career spanning four decades and approximately 200 films in the Hindi and Telugu film industry, Rekha transformed herself over the years from an average actress into a glamour icon and acting powerhouse.
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She is a movie star in any language.” Sanjay Leela Bhansali labels her the "last of the great stars," adding, “Rekha is a question mark, an exclamation mark, a comma, never a full stop.
Nair went on to add, “Like Marilyn Monroe is shorthand for sex, Rekha is shorthand for charisma. While Ram Gopal Varma, who worked with Rekha in Bhoot (2003), alludes to her “tremendous natural dignity.one look and the audience takes her seriously,” filmmaker Mira Nair, who cast her in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), likens Rekha to a "Jamini Roy painting". Not in vapid bhabhi roles but as characters that shape the narrative. Chopra writes that long after Rekha’s contemporaries have retired into marriage and motherhood, she soldiers on. The talented director is planning a comeback to Bollywood and has asked his friend and screenplay writer of the original Umrao Jaan, Javed Siddiqui to write the sequel and the screenplay for him.‘A Hindi movie miracle’ - Thus does author-film critic Anupama Chopra describe actress and one of the biggest stars of the Hindi film screen – Rekha. Buzz is that Rekha might actually do a cameo in a sequel that is being planned to the original film. After directing one more film, he retired to a quiet life of designing, poetry and paintings. It was Muzaffar Ali's first liaison with the camera. Veteran actress Rekha's performance in Muzaffar Ali's Umrao Jaan (1981) not only won the new Rajya Sabha MP her first National Award but also made an entire nation hum the soulful songs from the film. There is a strong buzz that the makers are trying very hard to get Rekha to be a part of the cast.
The film is very much on the lines of a sequel to Umrao Jaan.” Siddiqui said: “Yes, I’m working on a script for Muzaffar saab and we will be working together after 30 years.The talented director is planning a comeback to Bollywood and has asked his friend and screenplay writer of the original Umrao Jaan, Javed Siddiqui to write the sequel and the screenplay for him.
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