Rekha: An eternal Bollywood actress.

One of the legendary actress in the Bollywood, Rekha was born On October 10, 1954 at Chennai. Her father was Gemini Ganesan a well known fact Tamil actor, while her mother was a popular Telugu actress, named Pushpavalli. Bhanurekha was the name given by her parents but later she was known by the name of Rekha.

Throughout the 1970s till date she has been considered as a Sex Symbol icon, known for her beauty, acting talent and dancing skills. She is considered to be eternal diva in Bollywood. Inability to speak Hindi, a dusky complexion as well as her weight are the factors which come in the way of Rekha to show her presence in the Bollywood. She took these challenges seriously and work over it. She does yoga to loose that extra weight and learned dance and most important Hindi. After making such hard efforts on her the Bolllywood icon come up in hindi movies and give big hits one after another.

This new and much improved Rekha went on to deliver box office hits like Nagin (1976), Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978), Mr. Natwarlal (1979), Khubsoorat (1980), Umrao Jaan (1981), Khoon Bhari Mang (1988) amongst others. Her Hindi film Sawan Bhadon was a major hit in the box office. This film brought her stardom overnight. Then afet she kept climbing the ladders of success and never look back. She is believed to have had several relationships and there were many rumors of relationships with other actors like Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Kiran Kumar, and Amitabh Bachchan. Rekha got married with Vinod, which was not succeed and ended up with an divorce. Then after sometime she again married with a Delhi based business man Mukesh in 1990 which also ended up in a divorce, shortly thereafter Mukesh commit suicide 1991.