Waheeda Rehman Biography, Awards, Age, Net Worth, Songs, Husband

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Biography

An Indian actress and dancer by the name of Waheeda Rehman is one of the most well-known actresses from earlier times in Indian cinema having won numerous honors including a National Film Award.

She is regarded as one of Hindi cinema's best actresses and has won three Filmfare Awards and the National Film Award. The Indian government awarded Waheeda the Padma Shri in 1972 and she later received the Padma Bhushan. Her entire film career has garnered substantial media attention.

Her extensive filmography showcases both her own skills and the evolving aesthetic of Indian cinema. She is well recognized for playing the characters of Nurse Radha Radha Reshma Anjana and Gulabo in Pyaasa Radha in Bees Saal Baad Rosie in Guide and Reshma in Reshma Aur Shera (Khamoshi).

Age & Zodiac

Waheeda Rehman was born on February 3rd 1938 in Chingleput British India's Madras Presidency.Contrary to popular belief Rehman was really born in Tamil Nadu not Hyderabad. Her horoscope indicates that she is an Aquarius. 

Education

Waheeda’s father was assigned to Visakhapatnam as part of the then-Madras Presidency she attended St. Joseph's Convent to complete her studies. She and her sisters had Bharatanatyam instruction in Chennai when they were little. In her early teens her father passed away in 1951.

Waheeda had aspirations of becoming a doctor but she gave up on that dream due to her family's difficult emotional and financial situation as well as her mother's illness. She agreed to movie offers that came as a result of her dancing skills in order to support her family. She made her theatrical debut as a dancer at the Ganjam Kala Parishad in Brahmapur which was put on by her uncle Dr. Ferose Ali a well-known physician and social activist in the city.

Family

Waheeda Rehman was born into a Deccani Muslim household. She was the youngest of 4 girls; her parents were Mumtaz Begum and Mohammed Abdur Rehman. One of Waheeda Rehman's sisters is Sayeeda Rehma the eldest one and the other two are Zahida Rehman and Shahida Rehman Malik.

Relationship

Guru Dutt allegedly dated Waheeda. Guru was unable to envision any of his movies without Waheeda. In 1963 he eventually left Waheeda nonetheless in order to save his home.

On October 10 1964 Guru Dutt took his own life. Many people blamed Waheeda for his death even though the cause of it could not be determined. Waheeda's career was devastated after Guru Dutt's passing because she began receiving relatively few films.

Marriage

Waheeda Rehman and Shashi Rekhi got married in April 1974. He got to know Waheeda for the first time on the "Shagoon" set in 1964 he proposed to Waheeda Rehman after falling in love with her. He wed Waheeda Rehman in 1974 ten years later.

Career

Rehman made her acting debut in the Telugu film Rojulu Marayi(1955) and she gained notoriety via her work with director Guru Dutt on the romantic dramas Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) the Muslim social picture Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) and the romantic drama Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1960). (1962). With the romantic drama Guide (1965) for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress Rehman made her debut. In addition to earning nominations for her performances in the comedies Ram Aur Shyam (1967) and Khamoshi (1968) she won the prize once more for her work in the romantic thriller Neel Kamal (1969).

Rehman continued to perform at her best when coupled with other well-known superstars like Rajendra Kumar Raj Kapoor Dilip Kumar and Rajesh Khanna. Teesri Kasam (1966) which received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film Ram Aur Shyam (1967) Neel Kamal (1968) and Khamoshi (1968) are some of her most well-regarded films from the late 1960s (1969). 

Rehman received consecutive nominations for the last three movies' Best Actress categories with Neel Kamal taking home the prize in each case. [28] She portrays a nurse who becomes mentally ill after falling in love with one of her patients and eventually ends up being taken to her own mental facility in her critically acclaimed part in the movie Khamoshi which also stars Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. 

Top 5 films of Waheeda Rehman

Guide

Guide is a 1965 Bollywood bilingual love drama portraying Waaheda Rehman as Rosie the rebellious and obstinate wife of an adulterous archaeologist encounter with Vijay Anand as Raju the freelance tour guide and his encounter with Rosie told in the movie.When it first came out Guide was very popular at the box office and later developed a cult following; it is now regarded as one of the greatest Bollywood movies ever made. 

The performances of Anand and Rehman as well as the S. D. Burman score garnered tremendous praise from the critics. During the 14th Filmfare Awards Guide took home multiple awards including Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress Best Director Best Dialogue Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It was submitted for consideration as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards but it was not selected. On their selection of the "Best Bollywood Classics" from 2012 Time magazine ranked it at #4.

Pyaasa

Pyassa a Bollywood Drama classic movie is directed and produced by Guru Dutt who stars alongside Mala Sinha Waheeda Rehman Rehman and Johnny Walker.It is based in Calcutta and centers on the disillusioned Urdu poet Vijay (Dutt) whose writings are disparaged for addressing societal themes rather than romantic ones by publishers. 

The movie chronicles his interactions with the kind-hearted prostitute Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman) and his ex-girlfriend Meena (Sinha) including how the former assists him in getting his poems published the popularity of his writings and his romantic relationship with Gulabo.The movie afterward went on to become one of the most profitable ones of the year.

Kaagaz Ke Phool

Kaagaz Ke Phool is one of Bollywood’s revolutionary Hindi romantics. Guru Dutt who also co-starred in the film alongside Waheeda Rehman in the lead part was produced and director of the 1959 film. The film chronicles the story of Suresh Sinha a well-known film director in a flashback. Due to the fact that Veena's rich family views acting as a profession with low social standing their marriage is in trouble. Also he is prohibited from seeing his daughter Pammi who is enrolled at a private boarding school in Dehradun.

Lamhe

The 1991 Indian musical romantic drama film Lamhe also known as Moments was directed by Yash Chopra and written by Honey Irani and Rahi Masoom Raza. Together with Waheeda Rehman and Anupam Kher playing important supporting roles the movie stars Sridevi and Anil Kapoor in the key roles.

In the movie Pallavi (Sridevi) marries another person despite Viren (Kapoor) falling in love with her.Nevertheless Sridevi who bears a striking resemblance to her mother is left in Viren's care after Pallavi and her husband perished in a car accident causing Sridevi to fall in love with Viren. The movie is Sridevi and Chopra's second and final collaboration after Chandni (1989).

Teesri Kasam

Basu Bhattacharya directed the drama movie Teesri Kasam in 1966 and Shailendra the lyricist served as producer. The Hindi author Phanishwarnath Renu's short work Mare Gaye Gulfam served as its inspiration. Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman both appear in the movie.The unconventional movie Teesri Kasam depicts rural Indian society. Hiraman a naive bullock cart driver falls in love with Hirabai a dancer at a nautanki in this story. The problem of women being exploited in the performing arts particularly in traveling folk theatre is also covered in the movie.Upon release Teesri Kasam was a financial disaster and a fiasco yet it was awarded the President's Medal for best picture (National award for best film).

Controversies

Many controversies revolved around Waheeda’s former relationship with the late Guru Datt. Many people blamed her for his death. It is also said her whole career went into a downfall after the infamous controversy. 

Networth

Waheeda Rehman has a net worth of $10 million claims Celebworth.net. Waheeda Rehman's work as an actress served as her primary source of income. Additionally over the years she has served as a brand ambassador for a number of companies.

Social Work

Rehman is a philanthropist in addition to being an actress. She supports education and serves as an ambassador for Rang De a group against poverty in India.

Awards won by Waheeda

Achievements

• Padma Shri in 1972
• Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994
• IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001
• In October 2004 a Waheeda Rehman film retrospective was held at the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington where Rehman participated in spirited-panel-and-audience discussions on her most memorable films; Pyaasa Teesri Kasam and Guide.
• NTR National Award in 2006
• Padma Bhushan in 2011
• Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2020

Interesting facts about Waheeda

• Waheeda considered Guru Dutt as her mentor.
• Dev Anand was her favorite co-actor. In her first movie with Dev Anand she was shy and could not work up the courage to say ‘Dev’. Then Dev said that I would not be able to romance with you if you don’t call me by my name. It took a lot of effort to finally start calling him Dev.
• Waheeda proved herself as a very talented actress. She had been in almost every genre of film and done every sort of role from that of a teenage heroine to that of an aged mother and grandmother.
• Waheeda Rahman has played both mother and lover to Amitabh Bachchan. She played his lover in ‘Adalat’ (1976) and mother in ‘Trishul’ (1978).
• Waheeda is bestfriends with Asha Parekh and Helen.
• Waheeda loves making ‘Sevaiya’ and always has it on Eid.
• She has a keen interest in wildlife photography.