The Essential Rekha: 10 Iconic Roles

10 ICONIC ROLES

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The role that won Rekha her National Award for Best Actress – a Lucknow courtesan

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Rekha won over a stern matriarch as the bubbly Manju in this comedy-drama

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A love triangle like no other – Rekha played an unfaithful wife in this tale of extra-marital love

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Rekha plays the courtesan Vasantsena in this period drama based on an ancient Sanskrit play

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Possibly one of Hindi cinema's most difficult roles – a housewife who is also a rape survivor

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Rekha starred with Naseeruddin Shah as a divorced couple who meet by chance at a railway station

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Another courtesan role – this time as Zohra bai, who suffers through unrequited love for the hero

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Rekha's character was analogous to Draupadi in Shyam Benegal's modernized Mahabharata

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Rekha played a woman bent on revenge against the husband who threw her to a crocodile

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Rekha shone as Mandira Devi, the first wife of the titular Zubeidaa's princely husband

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10 ICONIC ROLES

THE ESSENTIAL REKHA:

The role that won Rekha her National Award for Best Actress – a Lucknow courtesan

Umrao Jaan

Rekha won over a stern matriarch as the bubbly Manju in this comedy-drama

Khoobsurat

A love triangle like no other – Rekha played an unfaithful wife in this tale of extra-marital love

Silsila

Rekha plays the courtesan Vasantsena in this period drama based on an ancient Sanskrit play

Utsav

Possibly one of Hindi cinema's most difficult roles – a housewife who is also a rape survivor

Ghar

Rekha starred with Naseeruddin Shah as a divorced couple who meet by chance at a railway station

Ijaazat

Another courtesan role – this time as Zohra bai, who suffers through unrequited love for the hero

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar

Rekha's character was analogous to Draupadi in Shyam Benegal's modernized Mahabharata

Kalyug

Rekha played a woman bent on revenge against the husband who threw her to a crocodile

Khoon Bhari Maang

Rekha shone as Mandira Devi, the first wife of the titular Zubeidaa's princely husband

Zubeidaa

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10 ICONIC ROLES

THE ESSENTIAL REKHA:

The role that won Rekha her National Award for Best Actress – a Lucknow courtesan

Umrao Jaan

Rekha won over a stern matriarch as the bubbly Manju in this comedy-drama

Khoobsurat

A love triangle like no other – Rekha played an unfaithful wife in this tale of extra-marital love

Silsila

Rekha plays the courtesan Vasantsena in this period drama based on an ancient Sanskrit play

Utsav

Possibly one of Hindi cinema's most difficult roles – a housewife who is also a rape survivor

Ghar

Rekha starred with Naseeruddin Shah as a divorced couple who meet by chance at a railway station

Ijaazat

Another courtesan role – this time as Zohra bai, who suffers through unrequited love for the hero

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar

Rekha's character was analogous to Draupadi in Shyam Benegal's modernized Mahabharata

Kalyug

Rekha played a woman bent on revenge against the husband who threw her to a crocodile

Khoon Bhari Maang

Rekha shone as Mandira Devi, the first wife of the titular Zubeidaa's princely husband

Zubeidaa

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