Rekha
Bhanurekha Ganesan (; born 10 October 1954), better known by her mononymous stage name Rekha, is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi films. Acknowledged as one of the finest actresses in Indian cinema, she has starred in more than 180 films and is the recipient of several accolades, including one National Film Award and four Filmfare Awards. She has often played strong and complicated female characters—from fictional to literary—in both mainstream and independent films. Though her career has gone through certain periods of decline, Rekha has gained a reputation for reinventing herself numerous times and has been credited for her ability to sustain her status. In 2010, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour.The daughter of actors Pushpavalli and Gemini Ganesan, Rekha started her career as a child actress in Telugu films ''Inti Guttu'' (1958) and ''Rangula Ratnam'' (1966). Her first film as a lead happened with the Kannada movie ''Operation Jackpot Nalli C.I.D 999'' (1969). Her Hindi debut with ''Sawan Bhadon'' (1970) established her as a rising star, but despite the success of several of her early films, she was often panned in the press for her looks and weight. Motivated by criticism, she started working on her appearance and put effort into improving her acting technique and command of the Hindi language, resulting in a well-publicised transformation. Early recognition in 1978 for her performances in ''Ghar'' and ''Muqaddar Ka Sikandar'' marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career, and she was one of Hindi cinema's leading stars through most of the 1980s and early 1990s.
For her performance in the comedy ''Khubsoorat'' (1980), Rekha received her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She followed it with roles in ''Baseraa'' (1981), ''Ek Hi Bhool'' (1981), ''Jeevan Dhaara'' (1982) and ''Agar Tum Na Hote'' (1983). While mostly prolific in popular Hindi cinema, during this time she ventured into parallel cinema, a movement of neo-realist arthouse films. These films included dramas such as ''Kalyug'' (1981), ''Vijeta'' (1982) and ''Utsav'' (1984), and her portrayal of a classical courtesan in ''Umrao Jaan'' (1981) won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. After a short setback in the mid 1980s, she was among the actresses who led a new trend of women-centred revenge films, starting with ''Khoon Bhari Maang'' (1988), for which she won a second Best Actress award at Filmfare.
Rekha's work was much less prolific in subsequent decades. Her roles in early 1990s mostly met with lukewarm reviews. In 1996, she played against type in the role of an underworld don in the action thriller ''Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi'' (1996), for which she won a third Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, and further appeared in ''Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996) and ''Aastha: In the Prison of Spring'' (1997) to critical acclaim but some public scrutiny. During the 2000s, she was praised for her supporting roles in the 2001 dramas ''Zubeidaa'' and ''Lajja'', and started playing mother roles, among which was her role in the science fiction ''Koi... Mil Gaya'' (2003) and its superhero sequel ''Krrish'' (2006), both commercial successes. The lattermost emerged as her highest-grossing release.
Apart from acting, Rekha served as a Member of Parliament for the Rajya Sabha from 2012 to 2018. Her private life and public image have been the subject of frequent media interest and discussion. Starting in the 1970s, her pairing opposite Amitabh Bachchan in a number of successful films was accompanied by enduring speculation about a love affair between the two, culminating in their starring film ''Silsila'' (1981), which was reflective of media projections. Her only marriage to the Delhi-based industrialist and television manufacturer Mukesh Agarwal in March 1990 ended seven months later when he died by suicide. Rekha's public image has often been tied to her perceived sex appeal. She is reluctant to give interviews or discuss her life, which resulted in her being labelled a recluse. Provided by Wikipedia
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1121by Fotios Mpekris, Myrofora Panagi, Chrysovalantis Voutouri, John D. Martin, Rekha Samuel, Shinichiro Takahashi, Naoto Gotohda, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Panagiotis Papageorgis, Philippos Demetriou, Chryso Pierides, Laura Koumas, Paul Costeas, Motohiro Kojima, Genichiro Ishii, Anastasia Constantinidou, Kazunori Kataoka, Horacio Cabral, Triantafyllos StylianopoulosGet full text
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1122by Snigdha Majumder, Rakshit Shah, Jisha Elias, Yogesh Mistry, Karunakaran Coral, Priyanka Shah, Anand Kumar Maurya, Bharti Mittal, Jason K D'Silva, Sakthivel Murugan, Lakshmi Mahadevan, Rekha Sathian, V L Ramprasad, Papia Chakraborty, Ravi Gupta, Amitabha Chaudhuri, Arati Khanna-GuptaGet full text
Published 2018-01-01
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1123by Sebastian L Johnston, Matyas Szigeti, Mary Cross, Christopher Brightling, Rekha Chaudhuri, Timothy Harrison, Adel Mansur, Laura Robison, Zahid Sattar, David Jackson, Patrick Mallia, Ernie Wong, Christopher Corrigan, Bernard Higgins, Philip Ind, Dave Singh, Neil Thomson, Deborah Ashby, Anoop ChauhanGet full text
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1124by Niraj Babu, Sonali Mohan, Vishalakshi Nanjappa, Sandip Chavan, Jayshree Advani, Aafaque Ahmed Khan, Santosh Renuse, Aneesha Radhakrishnan, T.S. Keshava Prasad, Rekha V. Kumar, Jay Gopal Ray, Manjusha Biswas, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Joseph A. Califano, David Sidransky, Harsha Gowda, Aditi ChatterjeeGet full text
Published 2018-08-01
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1125by S.K. Hajira, R.M. Sundaram, G.S. Laha, A. Yugander, S.M. Balachandran, B.C. Viraktamath, K. Sujatha, C.H. Balachiranjeevi, K. Pranathi, M. Anila, S. Bhaskar, V. Abhilash, H.K. Mahadevaswamy, M. Kousik, T. Dilip Kumar, G. Harika, G. RekhaGet full text
Published 2016-05-01
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1126by Rekha Dhanwani, John Pham, Ashmitaa Logandha Ramamoorthy Premlal, April Frazier, Atul Kumar, Maria Elena Pero, Maria Elena Pero, Francesca Bartolini, Juliana Rezende Dutra, Karen S. Marder, Bjoern Peters, Bjoern Peters, David Sulzer, David Sulzer, Alessandro Sette, Alessandro Sette, Cecilia S. Lindestam ArlehamnGet full text
Published 2020-08-01
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1127by Rekha Dhanwani, John Pham, Ashmitaa Logandha Ramamoorthy Premlal, April Frazier, Atul Kumar, Maria Elena Pero, Maria Elena Pero, Francesca Bartolini, Juliana Rezende Dutra, Karen S. Marder, Bjoern Peters, Bjoern Peters, David Sulzer, David Sulzer, Alessandro Sette, Alessandro Sette, Cecilia S. Lindestam ArlehamnGet full text
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1128by Namrata Sharma, Tarun Arora, Deepali Singhal, Prafulla K Maharana, Prashant Garg, Ritu Nagpal, Somasheila Murthy, Srinivas Gunnam, Aditya Arora, Venkatesh Prajna, Revathi Rajaraman, Prema Padmanabhan, Arvind Kumar, Rajiv Kumar, Swati Tomar, Anila Thomas, Rekha Gyanchand, Ritu Arora, Bani Biswas, Samar BasakGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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1129by Krishan Mohan Kapoor, MCh, DNB, Vandana Chatrath, MD, MSc, Chytra Anand, DD, MSc, Rashmi Shetty, MD, Chiranjiv Chhabra, MD, Kuldeep Singh, MCh, Maya Vedamurthy, MD, Jamuna Pai, MBBS, Bindu Sthalekar, MD, Rekha Sheth, MD, on behalf of the Indian Facial Aesthetics Expert GroupGet full text
Published 2017-12-01
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1130by Cong Chen, Peili Gu, Jian Wu, Xianyun Chen, Shuangshuang Niu, Hong Sun, Lijie Wu, Na Li, Junhui Peng, Shaohua Shi, Cuiying Fan, Min Huang, Catherine C. L. Wong, Qingguo Gong, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Rongguang Zhang, Lajos Pusztai, Rekha Rai, Sandy Chang, Ming LeiGet full text
Published 2017-04-01
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1131by Aafaque Ahmad Khan, Hitendra Singh Solanki, Krishna Patel, Vishalakshi Nanjappa, Kiran Kumar, Rekha V. Kumar, Anjali Kumari, Malini Manoharan, Coral Karunakaran, Saktivel Murugan, Ravi Gupta, Rohit Gupta, Arati Khanna-Gupta, Premendu Prakash Mathur, T.S. Keshava Prasad, Akhilesh Pandey, Aditi Chatterjee, Harsha GowdaGet full text
Published 2017-10-01
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1132by Wan Adnawani Meor Osman, Peter van Berkum, Milagros León-Barrios, Encarna Velázquez, Patrick Elia, Rui Tian, Julie Ardley, Margaret Gollagher, Rekha Seshadri, T. B. K. Reddy, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Amrita Pati, Victor Markowitz, Mohamed N. Baeshen, Naseebh Nabeeh Baeshen, Nikos Kyrpides, Wayne ReeveGet full text
Published 2017-09-01
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1134by Pradeep A Dongare, S Bala Bhaskar, S S Harsoor, Rakesh Garg, Sudheesh Kannan, Umesh Goneppanavar, Zulfiqar Ali, Ramachandran Gopinath, Jayashree Sood, Kalaivani Mani, Pradeep Bhatia, Priyanka Rohatgi, Rekha Das, Santu Ghosh, Subramanyam S Mahankali, Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa, Sunanda Gupta, Sunil T Pandya, Venkatesh H Keshavan, Muralidhar Joshi, Naveen MalhotraGet full text
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1135by Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Justin M. Oldham, Evans R. Fernández Pérez, Mark Hamblin, Nina Patel, Mitchell Tener, Deepa Bhanot, Lacey Robinson, Sam Bullick, Lena Chen, Scully Hsu, Matthew Churpek, Donald Hedeker, Steven Montner, Jonathan H. Chung, Aliya N. Husain, Imre Noth, Mary E. Strek, Rekha VijGet full text
Published 2017-08-01
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1136by Graham Devereux, Seonaidh Cotton, Shona Fielding, Nicola McMeekin, Peter J Barnes, Andy Briggs, Graham Burns, Rekha Chaudhuri, Henry Chrystyn, Lisa Davies, Anthony De Soyza, Simon Gompertz, John Haughney, Karen Innes, Joanna Kaniewska, Amanda Lee, Alyn Morice, John Norrie, Anita Sullivan, Andrew Wilson, David PriceGet full text
Published 2019-07-01
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1137by Aaron M. Orkin, Mercy Charles, Kristine Norris, Rekha Thomas, Leigh Chapman, Amy Wright, Douglas M. Campbell, Curtis Handford, Michelle Klaiman, Shaun Hopkins, Rita Shahin, Kevin Thorpe, Peter Juni, Janet Parsons, Kate Sellen, Nick Goso, Richard Hunt, Pamela Leece, Laurie J. Morrison, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Suzanne Turner, Carol StrikeGet full text
Published 2021-09-01
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1138by Chih-Yuan Chiang, Yang Zhong, Michael D. Ward, Douglas J. Lane, Tara Kenny, Raysa Rosario-Acevedo, Brett P. Eaton, Sylvia R. Treviño, Taylor B. Chance, Meghan Hu, Patricia L. Worsham, David M. Waag, Richard T. Moore, Lisa H. Cazares, Christopher K. Cote, Yingyao Zhou, Rekha G. PanchalGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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1139by Reynaldo Salcedo, Edward Corbett, Christopher Smith, Erik Limpaecher, Raajiv Rekha, John Nowocin, Georg Lauss, Edwin Fonkwe, Murilo Almeida, Peter Gartner, Scott Manson, Bharath Nayak, Ivan Celanovic, Christian Dufour, M.Omar Faruque, Karl Schoder, Ron Brandl, Panos Kotsampopoulos, Thrung Ham Ha, Ali Davoudi, Ali Dehkordi, Kai StrunzGet full text
Published 2019-04-01
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1140by Aaron M. Orkin, Mercy Charles, Kristine Norris, Rekha Thomas, Leigh Chapman, Amy Wright, Douglas M. Campbell, Curtis Handford, Michelle Klaiman, Shaun Hopkins, Rita Shahin, Kevin Thorpe, Peter Jüni, Janet Parsons, Kate Sellen, Nick Goso, Richard Hunt, Pamela Leece, Laurie J. Morrison, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Suzanne Turner, Carol StrikeGet full text
Published 2021-06-01
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