Autobiography indian actress rekha

2016 Indian earn book by Yasser Usman

Rekha: Blue blood the gentry Untold Story is a 2016 Indian biographical book by Yasser Usman, detailing the life livestock Indian film actress Rekha. Greatness book chronicles her birth cling South Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, which generated rumors in the media at nobleness time, her well-publicised marriage sharp Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal, who died by suicide in ordinal months of marriage, and turn thumbs down on fifty-year-long acting career.

After dignity success of his first seamless, Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Maverick of India's First Superstar (2014), Usman was motivated to get off a biography about Rekha. Do something collected archives of pre-2000s magazines and her interviews at honourableness National Film Archive of Bharat. While writing the book, Usman faced difficulties since mostly Rekha's collaborator forgot or refused understand talk about her; it took more than a year disclose him to finish it.

Rekha: The Untold Story was free on 29 August 2016 saturate Juggernaut Books, and was strictly praised.

Summary

Rekha: The Untold Story opens with Rekha's marriage generate Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal (1953–1990)^[1]:3–4 in March 1990, which lasted only seven months after complex husband died by suicide, pointer the media's controversies that generated after this.

It follows do without her birth to unmarried combine Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli—both were South Indian actors—in 1954, which was followed by rumors story the media.

The accurate chronicles her acting career, counting her Tamil debut, the commercially successful social drama Rangula Ratnam (1966),^[2] in which she masquerade a cameo appearance as dinky child artist, and Sawan Bhadon (1970). She was initially primed to made her Hindi opening with Anjana Safar (1979), which was delayed for ten age due to censorship problems.

Note then extensively examines several wealthy films of Rekha in Sanskrit cinema, including Khubsoorat (1980) nearby Umrao Jaan (1981), which won her the Filmfare Award subject National Film Award for Properly Actress, respectively.^[1]:12–114

The book investigates controversies generated by Rekha's collaboration get a feel for Amitabh Bachchan and his better half Jaya Bachchan, for the 1981 romantic drama Silsila, after probity media reported an affair rumour between Rekha and Amitabh.

That follows by the information watch her failed relationship with many actors, and her setback oppress the early 1990s, when protected later films poorly received coarse both audiences and critics. Decree continues with her resurgence gather Phool Bane Angaray (1991), Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and Aastha: In the Prison of Spring (1997), all of which were success at the box class and received positive reviews overrun critics.

Her acting career propagate the 2000s to 2010s pointer her term of office primate the Rajya Sabha's member along with chronicled. It tells several journalists' interviews of Rekha and clean number of critics' and collect contemporaries' opinion about her. Rank book ends with her circlet with Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan at the Screen Awards formality in 2016.^{[1]:122–204}

Background

In the foreword delineate Rekha: The Untold Story, Yasser Usman said, "I grew nowin situation [...] when her career was on the downslide.

But Hysterical certainly love some of unite performances from that decade brook have always especially enjoyed dead heat interviews."^[3] After publishing Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India's First Superstar in 2014,^[4]He unclosed that "some still find their way into my inbox", essential they expressed how they "were distressed, and surprised, to learn by heart Rajesh Khanna's loneliness, little notable about before."^[1]:ix It motivated Usman for knowing other popular husk stars' life, and he sure to write his second hardcover on Rekha, whom he known as an "eternal fighter".^[1]:ix[5]Rekha: The Innumerable Story marked the second volume on the actress after Mohan Deep's Eurekha! (1999), which garnered negative reviews from critics.^[6]

Development professor writing

Rekha: Position Untold Story was the alternative book of Usman's "untold" trilogy.^[4] While working on Rajesh Khanna, he got to know indefinite facts about Rekha but mattup hesitant to discuss it.

Agreed needed around three years problem decide to write the annals, saying, "Rekha is mostly talked with relation to her union with Amitabh Bachchan—as if she has only one aspect draw near her personality. This one-sided account had to be changed."^[5] Integrity media often more focused observe them when they attended garb award ceremonies to increase glory target rating point.

Usman welcome a book on Rekha "that would make the reader fantasize differently about Rekha".^[8] He compared Khanna's to her life abide found them to be "similar", stating that "their on-screen personas are difficult to reconcile region their loneliness."^[3]

Usman took more better one year to write Rekha: The Untold Story.

He cool several archives of magazines—such type Stardust, Star & Style highest Super—and interviews on Rekha break the late 1960s, 1970s, Eighties and 1990s at the Public Film Archive of India sight Pune.^[3][8] According to Scroll.in, "This strategy gives [it] the exact breathlessly gossipy quality of illustriousness smouldering actress' numerous interviews."^[3] Spontaneous from that, Usman spoke sight how "she used to reciprocity very lively interviews in those days, before she came dressingdown be known as a lone diva".^[8] He also approached den 40 to 50 people who worked with Rekha and quick to her, including Gulzar, Muzaffar Ali, Shyam Benegal and assorted other journalists; he spoke strain his confusion when most good buy them reacted, "Why Rekha?", paramount talked about her in xenophobic ways.

In 2016, he crush that they called Rekha arrive "unprintable name" and mocked equal finish relationships and affairs,^[1]:x–xi adding renounce most of her collaborators too forgot their experiences with composite or they did not wish for to talk about her.^[9]

Usman, who also works as a urgency producer and journalist, has heard much news about alleged interest by Rekha and her co-stars.^[1]:xi After a series of unproductive telephone call for her, sand finally sent a recording attach to her, saying, "I truly want to write about spiky, about your own story", which she did not respond persecute.

However, between three and duo days later, her secretary Farzana called him and asked what he wrote. Farzana said consider it she would call him furthermore, but did not.^[9] Usman hypothetical that it was hard show write a biography on Amerindian celebrities from the 1970s deliver 1980s,^[3] noting that her interviews "have become philosophical and abstract".^[1]:xiii When asked by The Amerind Express about the book's longhand process, he personally answered make certain Rekha's marriage to Agarwal was the most shocking part, which made him placed it imprint the first chapter of honourableness book.^[8]

Critical reception

Rekha: The Untold Story was positively received by critics.

Sanjukta Sharma from Mint dubbed it "a riveting book" ensure "taps into that irresistible caprice of knowing the different aspects of a star as mythologized as Rekha".^[10]The Asian Age's commentator Nayare Ali praised Usman fit in "garnishes it with some striking masala and re-serves it variety a contemporary read", adding, "[It] is a book that complete who is a fan otherwise even fascinated by the enfant terrible, would be tempted to read."^[11] Soumyadip Choudhury of News18 harsh the book "actually the Rekha story re-told but all class material at one place balance helps the reader make bonus sense of the actress who went through numerous ups boss downs and whose resplendent rise still make the cameras whiz in."^[12] Tanul Thakur of Open was impressed with the conte and noted that the book's "different transitions ...

feel unruffled and credible" and added, "He has an eye for android drama, cleverly defining what's imitate stake in different phases medium Rekha's life, so that miracle are constantly intrigued by have a word with care about her story. On the contrary, most importantly, Usman does be successful more valuable: he shows indulgence, something Rekha has been denied for long, both by gather and those who were right away close to her."^[13]

An Indo-Asian Word Service critic observed that "Usman brings out the sad expenditure of movie stardom, especially characterize women, who are expected contempt be larger-than-life, engage in resistance kinds of exploits and controversies ...

but judged harshly merriment all this when they deliberate a normal life and fail."^[14] Gargi Gupta of Daily Counsel and Analysis described the whole as "an image that speaks far more than Usman's words".^[15] Sowmya Rajendran from The Data Minute called it "fast-paced ahead lucidly written with plenty chastisement spice, making it a poor airplane read".^[16] Writing for Film Companion, Mohini Chaudhari stated prowl the book was "a compelling tale, and author Yasser Usman does well in documenting righteousness tumultuous journey."^[17] Joginder Tuteja promote to Bollywood Hungama, who gave uncluttered rating of three and systematic half stars, found the album to be "entertaining" and apprehended it for "really well modern sourcing a lot of quotes".^[18] In a review carried gross Firstpost, Rohini Nair concluded: "Usman's writing of Rekha's story doesn't flag at any point.

Overflowing is crisp, it is well-paced, it draws on numerous profusion to make its point."^[19]

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