Bollywood's famous actress Rekha is celebrating her 66th birthday

Today, Bollywood's famous actress Rekha is celebrating her 66th birthday. She was born on 10 October 1954 in Chennai.

Rekha started her acting career in 1966 with the South Indian film Rangula Ratnam. She was a child artist in that film. In her career, Rekha has worked in around 175 Hindi and South Indian films, including 'Beautiful', 'Khoon Bhari Maang', 'Khoon Aur Sweat', 'Muqaddar Ka Sikander' and 'Umrao Jaan'. She has won three Filmfare and one National Film Award. Rekha has also been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Yasir Usman's book Rekha - The Untold Story, which was launched last year, has been read and loved by the people. This book makes us familiar with many untouched aspects of the life of Actress Rekha.

Yasir explains that he did not decide to write the book on Rekha because Rekha's life has been quite mysterious, but she was attracted by the life story of a girl who comes to Hindi cinema at just 14 years old and It establishes its identity not only in commercial but also in art films.

Rekha three evergreen movie-

Umrao Jaan, 1981
In 1981, Rekha starred in ‘Umrao Jaan’, a film adaptation of the Urdu novel ‘Umrao Jaan Ada’ (1905), written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa. Rekha played the titular role of a poetess from the 19th century Lucknow.

Khoobsurat, 1980

The free spirited Manju could be played by nobody else other than Rekha. Her comic timing in this Hrishikesh Mukherjee directorial is worth watching out.

Khoon Bhari Maang, 1988

The movie proved that with a strong script and an actress like Rekha, you don’t really need a male superstar to make a hit film.