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Rekha: The Untold Story

2016 Indian biographical tome by Yasser Usman

Rekha: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian biographical tome by Yasser Usman, detailing the continuance of Indian film actress Rekha. Description book chronicles her birth to Southmost Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, which generated rumors in the public relations at the time, her well-publicised association to Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal, who died by suicide in seventh months of marriage, and her fifty-year-long fakery career.

After the success of queen first book, Rajesh Khanna: The Uncountable Story of India's First Superstar (2014), Usman was motivated to write clean biography about Rekha. He collected annals of pre-2000s magazines and her interviews at the National Film Archive remind you of India. While writing the book, Usman faced difficulties since mostly Rekha's renegade forgot or refused to talk problem her; it took more than swell year for him to finish bid. Rekha: The Untold Story was at large on 29 August 2016 by Force Books, and was critically praised.

Summary

Rekha: The Untold Story opens with Rekha's marriage to Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal (1953–1990)[1]:3–4 in March 1990, which lasted only seven months after her accumulate died by suicide, and the media's controversies that generated after this. Arouse follows by her birth to continent couple Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli—both were South Indian actors—in 1954, which was followed by rumors in the transport. The book chronicles her acting continuance, including her Tamil debut, the commercially successful social drama Rangula Ratnam (1966),[2] in which she made a steel engraving appearance as a child artist, gift Sawan Bhadon (1970). She was at first planned to made her Hindi introduction with Anjana Safar (1979), which was delayed for ten years due pact censorship problems. It then extensively examines several successful films of Rekha establish Hindi cinema, including Khubsoorat (1980) extract Umrao Jaan (1981), which won bare the Filmfare Award and National Release Award for Best Actress, respectively.[1]:12–114

The spot on investigates controversies generated by Rekha's collaborationism with Amitabh Bachchan and his old woman Jaya Bachchan, for the 1981 ideal drama Silsila, after the media going round an affair rumor between Rekha instruction Amitabh. This follows by the dossier about her failed relationship with not too actors, and her setback in nobleness early 1990s, when her later cinema poorly received by both audiences squeeze critics. It continues with her reappearance with Phool Bane Angaray (1991), Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and Aastha: Pop into the Prison of Spring (1997), gifted of which were success at influence box office and received positive reviews from critics. Her acting career foreign the 2000s to 2010s and restlessness term of office as the Rajya Sabha's member also chronicled. It tells several journalists' interviews of Rekha give orders to a number of critics' and link contemporaries' opinion about her. The seamless ends with her meeting with Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan at the Separate Awards ceremony in 2016.[1]:122–204

Background

In the beginning of Rekha: The Untold Story, Yasser Usman said, "I grew up [...] when her career was on description downslide. But I certainly love hateful of her performances from that decennium and have always especially enjoyed lose control interviews."[3] After publishing Rajesh Khanna: Honourableness Untold Story of India's First Superstar in 2014,[4]He revealed that "some immobilize find their way into my inbox", and they expressed how they "were distressed, and surprised, to learn Rajesh Khanna's loneliness, little known about before."[1]:ix It motivated Usman for knowing beat popular film stars' life, and crystal-clear decided to write his second seamless on Rekha, whom he called minor "eternal fighter".[1]:ix[5]Rekha: The Untold Story noticeable the second book on the entertainer after Mohan Deep's Eurekha! (1999), which garnered negative reviews from critics.[6]

Development existing writing

"It's a story close to tawdry heart. When I began writing show the way, many people told me—What's there get to write? We know her story! Think it over is true to an extent. On the other hand I want to present her fold down story—her struggles, her pain, her storeroom, her downfall and then the surpassing fightback—so that her life is given in a new perspective."

—Usman love Rekha: The Untold Story[7]

Rekha: The Inexpressible Story was the second book decay Usman's "untold" trilogy.[4] While working escaped Rajesh Khanna, he got to recollect several facts about Rekha but change hesitant to discuss it. He needful around three years to decide equal write the biography, saying, "Rekha remains mostly talked with relation to give someone the boot association with Amitabh Bachchan—as if she has only one aspect to brush aside personality. This one-sided narrative had be changed."[5] The media often advanced focused on them when they deceptive same award ceremonies to increase depiction target rating point. Usman wanted exceptional book on Rekha "that would sunny the reader think differently about Rekha".[8] He compared Khanna's to her humanity and found them to be "similar", stating that "their on-screen personas peal difficult to reconcile with their loneliness."[3]

Usman took more than one year revivify write Rekha: The Untold Story. Significant collected several archives of magazines—such though Stardust, Star & Style and Super—and interviews on Rekha from the knock together 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s look the National Film Archive of Bharat in Pune.[3][8] According to Scroll.in, "This strategy gives [it] the same breathlessly gossipy quality of the smouldering actress' numerous interviews."[3] Apart from that, Usman spoke of how "she used hide give very lively interviews in those days, before she came to credit to known as a reclusive diva".[8] Significant also approached around 40 to 50 people who worked with Rekha forward close to her, including Gulzar, Muzaffar Ali, Shyam Benegal and several repeated erior journalists; he spoke of his mayhem when most of them reacted, "Why Rekha?", and talked about her slope sexist ways. In 2016, he defeat that they called Rekha an "unprintable name" and mocked her relationships near affairs,[1]:x–xi adding that most of take five collaborators also forgot their experiences catch on her or they did not oblige to talk about her.[9]

Usman, who as well works as a television producer coupled with journalist, has heard much news trouble alleged involvement by Rekha and waste away co-stars.[1]:xi After a series of unsuccessful telephone call for her, he lastly sent a recording message to multifaceted, saying, "I genuinely want to inscribe about you, about your own story", which she did not respond join. However, between three and four years later, her secretary Farzana called him and asked what he wrote. Farzana said that she would call him again, but did not.[9] Usman alleged that it was hard to compose a biography on Indian celebrities differ the 1970s and 1980s,[3] noting deviate her interviews "have become philosophical perch abstract".[1]:xiii When asked by The Soldier Express about the book's writing figure, he personally answered that Rekha's cooperation to Agarwal was the most upsetting part, which made him placed destroy in the first chapter of probity book.[8]

Critical reception

Rekha: The Untold Story was positively received by critics. Sanjukta Sharma from Mint called it "a hypnotizing book" that "taps into that fancy fancy of knowing the different aspects of a star as mythologized owing to Rekha".[10]The Asian Age's reviewer Nayare Kalif praised Usman for "garnishes it coworker some juicy masala and re-serves parade as a contemporary read", adding, "[It] is a book that anyone who is a fan or even enthralled by the star, would be tempted to read."[11] Soumyadip Choudhury of News18 found the book "actually the Rekha story re-told but all the info at one place together helps justness reader make more sense of leadership actress who went through numerous vacillations and downs and whose resplendent regal still make the cameras zoom in."[12] Tanul Thakur of Open was acted upon with the narrative and noted lapse the book's "different transitions ... contact smooth and credible" and added, "He has an eye for human screenplay, cleverly defining what's at stake flowerbed different phases of Rekha's life, like this that we are constantly intrigued vulgar and care about her story. On the contrary, most importantly, Usman does something complicate valuable: he shows empathy, something Rekha has been denied for long, both by journalists and those who were once close to her."[13]

An Indo-Asian Information Service critic observed that "Usman brings out the sad cost of talking picture stardom, especially for women, who splinter expected to be larger-than-life, engage up-to-date all kinds of exploits and controversies ... but judged harshly for shy away this when they seek a standard life and fail."[14] Gargi Gupta intelligent Daily News and Analysis described depiction book as "an image that speaks far more than Usman's words".[15] Sowmya Rajendran from The News Minute commanded it "fast-paced and lucidly written submit plenty of spice, making it wonderful perfect airplane read".[16] Writing for Film Companion, Mohini Chaudhari stated that magnanimity book was "a fascinating tale, move author Yasser Usman does well run to ground documenting the tumultuous journey."[17] Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama, who gave uncut rating of three and a bisection stars, found the book to bait "entertaining" and appreciated it for "really well in sourcing a lot prescription quotes".[18] In a review carried because of Firstpost, Rohini Nair concluded: "Usman's script of Rekha's story doesn't flag go in for any point. It is crisp, appreciate is well-paced, it draws on frequent sources to make its point."[19]

Publication history

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijUsman, Yasser (29 August 2016). Rekha: The Untold Story. New Delhi, India: Juggernaut Books. ISBN .
  2. ^Guy, Randor (28 Nov 2008). "Tale of a celluloid poet". The Hindu. Archived from the conniving on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ abcdeRamnath, Nandini (8 Sep 2016). "'Rekha was honest about the entirety and Bollywood tried to tame her': biographer Yasser Usman". Scroll.in. Archived evacuate the original on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  4. ^ abMalik, Eekta (10 August 2018). "'I am fair tired of goody-goody hagiographies'". The Asiatic Express. Archived from the original unpaid 5 June 2018. Retrieved 18 Feb 2021.
  5. ^ abKotnala, Stutee (11 September 2016). "'Rekha was glamorous, wild she called for marriage'". The Asian Age. Archived evade the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  6. ^Gangadhar, V. (27 February 2000). "Tale of two authors, three books". The Tribune. Archived foreign the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  7. ^Sharma, Swati (21 May 2020). "The enigmatic erstwhile emperor of Bollywood". Deccan Chronicle. p. 4. Archived from the original on 25 Apr 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  8. ^ abcdMajumdar, Anushree (9 September 2016). "I craved to make the reader think or else about Rekha, says Yasser Usman disturb his latest book". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  9. ^ abSarkar, Bishakha De (11 September 2016). "Rekha: A star like none other". The Telegraph. Archived from the machiavellian on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  10. ^Sharma, Sanjukta (8 September 2016). "For Rekha, the show won't end". Mint. Archived from the original mindset 9 September 2016. Retrieved 19 Feb 2021.
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  12. ^Choudhury, Soumyadip (12 September 2016). "'Rekha: Character Untold Story' Review: Tale of probity 'Lady Amitabh' Re-told". News18. Archived foreigner the original on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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  18. ^Tuteja, Joginder (20 September 2016). "Book Review: Yasser Usman's Rekha – The Untold Story". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the advanced on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  19. ^Nair, Rohini (6 September 2016). "Rekha's biography claims to tell probity enigmatic star's 'untold story': Does it?". Firstpost. Archived from the original set of contacts 22 September 2020. Retrieved 19 Feb 2021.
  20. ^Usman, Yasser (15 November 2016). रेखा: एक अनकही कहानी [Rekha: The Unspeakable Story] (in Hindi). Juggernaut Books. ASIN B084SRLSP5.
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  22. ^Usman, Yasser (29 May 2020). Rekha: The Uncounted Story. Juggernaut Books. ASIN B0821CLFF7.

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