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Intro
The extramarital daughter of actor Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli. In adddition to acting, Rekha worked in movies as a playback singer and a dubbing artist.

Career
Her early roles were deemed insubstantial and she was scorned for her looks and for her overweight. Rekha started practising Yoga, using a regular diet and taking lessons to perfect her Hindi, her native language being Tamil.

This marked the bigenning of a successful period; she established a new screen persona and became known for her intense style and sex appeal, often being featured in the medai as a sex symbol.

Films and reviews
Ek Naya Rishta, which she had completed shooting for by 1985. She played the role of Aarti, a woman who goes to the big city in order to pursue her dream to become an actress and ultimately finds herself submitted into prostitution. The film follows her relationship with a man who hires her as a surrogate mother. Director Vinod Pande referred to the role as a woman who "who distrusts every man".

Biwi Ho To Aisi - "a parody of the so-callled autonomy of a modern woman"


 * Sawaan Bhadon
 * "Rekha, the film's leading lady, has some figure and bounce. But her faulty Hindi is noticed even by a morone, long pieces of dialogue have been dubbed for her."
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 * Aakraman
 * "Rekha is a clothes-horse" Illustrated


 * Bhrashtachar
 * "Rekha's acting is passable" -


 * KKK
 * FF
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 * Aastha
 * "THE MARRIAGE specialist Bhattacharya films a compelling but not entirely convincing essay on consumerism and the urban marriage. Rekha gives her finest performance in years, but Puri looks uncomfortable." - with India Today regarding it as...
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 * Qila
 * Khalid
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 * Mother
 * Sukanya
 * Express
 * Saawan interview
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 * Bulandi
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 * Zubeidaa
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 * Indiatimes


 * Lajja
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 * Yatra
 * Anupama


 * Sadiyaan
 * Hindu: "The trio is on familiar turf. They have been making such sugary stories watchable for years and here again they effortlessly play out their characters with consummate dignity. Unfortunately, Raj hasn't given them enough meat to bite into."
 * TOI
 * HT
 * Tribune: "The only interesting bit about the film is the casting of Hema and Rekha, two stalwarts who come together in a film after a long time. Both the ladies look regal and appealing, their performances are also typically playing to the gallery variety. There's not much for Rishi Kapoor to do either. Frankly, this is a film that should never have been made!"
 * Indian Express
 * Masand
 * Khaleej Times (Subhash K Jha): "Rekha is exuberant and restless and quite an antithesis to her husky mysterious characters."

Legacy and acting
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Directors wax eloquent about her. Mira Nair, who cast her in Kamasutra, likens her to a “Jamini Roy painting”. “Like Marilyn Monroe is shorthand for sex, Rekha is shorthand for charisma. She is a movie star in any language.” Mahesh Manjrekar says he has grown up adoring her and will “beg at her feet” for her to work with him. Sanjay Leela Bhansali labels her the “last of the great stars”. He says, “Rekha is a question mark, an exclamation mark, a comma, never a full stop. To know her is to be seduced by life.” Shyam Benegal calls her “a director’s actress”.

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