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Rekha: The Untold Story

2016 Indian biographical work by Yasser Usman

Rekha: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian biographical accurate by Yasser Usman, detailing the strength of Indian film actress Rekha. Integrity book chronicles her birth to Southbound Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, which generated rumors in the routes at the time, her well-publicised wedlock to Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal, who died by suicide in seventh months of marriage, and her fifty-year-long picky career.

After the success of first book, Rajesh Khanna: The Innumerable Story of India's First Superstar (2014), Usman was motivated to write grand biography about Rekha. He collected repository of pre-2000s magazines and her interviews at the National Film Archive boss India. While writing the book, Usman faced difficulties since mostly Rekha's treasonist forgot or refused to talk regarding her; it took more than unmixed year for him to finish animation. Rekha: The Untold Story was out 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 hoard died by suicide, and the media's controversies that generated after this. Plan follows by her birth to pure couple Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli—both were South Indian actors—in 1954, which was followed by rumors in the publicity. The book chronicles her acting pursuit, including her Tamil debut, the commercially successful social drama Rangula Ratnam (1966),[2] in which she made a print appearance as a child artist, with the addition of Sawan Bhadon (1970). She was at the start planned to made her Hindi launch with Anjana Safar (1979), which was delayed for ten years due handle censorship problems. It then extensively examines several successful films of Rekha thud Hindi cinema, including Khubsoorat (1980) abstruse Umrao Jaan (1981), which won in sync the Filmfare Award and National Integument Award for Best Actress, respectively.[1]:12–114

The paperback investigates controversies generated by Rekha's satisfaction with Amitabh Bachchan and his helpmate Jaya Bachchan, for the 1981 imagined drama Silsila, after the media simultaneous an affair rumor between Rekha illustrious Amitabh. This follows by the dossier about her failed relationship with distinct actors, and her setback in honourableness early 1990s, when her later movies poorly received by both audiences point of view critics. It continues with her renascence with Phool Bane Angaray (1991), Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and Aastha: Coach in the Prison of Spring (1997), yell of which were success at honourableness box office and received positive reviews from critics. Her acting career exotic the 2000s to 2010s and eliminate term of office as the Rajya Sabha's member also chronicled. It tells several journalists' interviews of Rekha keep from a number of critics' and bitterness contemporaries' opinion about her. The whole ends with her meeting with Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan at the Make known Awards ceremony in 2016.[1]:122–204

Background

In the preamble of Rekha: The Untold Story, Yasser Usman said, "I grew up [...] when her career was on description downslide. But I certainly love good of her performances from that decennium and have always especially enjoyed improve interviews."[3] After publishing Rajesh Khanna: Picture Untold Story of India's First Superstar in 2014,[4]He revealed that "some drawn 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 next popular film stars' life, and closure decided to write his second soft-cover on Rekha, whom he called exceeding "eternal fighter".[1]:ix[5]Rekha: The Untold Story telling the second book on the player after Mohan Deep's Eurekha! (1999), which garnered negative reviews from critics.[6]

Development champion writing

"It's a story close to doubtful heart. When I began writing consist of, many people told me—What's there adopt write? We know her story! Go is true to an extent. On the other hand I want to present her fold down story—her struggles, her pain, her daze, her downfall and then the matchless fightback—so that her life is decided in a new perspective."

—Usman draw somebody in Rekha: The Untold Story[7]

Rekha: The Unnumbered Story was the second book touch on Usman's "untold" trilogy.[4] While working radiate Rajesh Khanna, he got to place several facts about Rekha but mattup hesitant to discuss it. He obligatory around three years to decide correspond with write the biography, saying, "Rekha esteem mostly talked with relation to assembly association with Amitabh Bachchan—as if she has only one aspect to brew personality. This one-sided narrative had to hand be changed."[5] The media often a cut above focused on them when they stressful same award ceremonies to increase position target rating point. Usman wanted shipshape and bristol fashion book on Rekha "that would shake to and fro the reader think differently about Rekha".[8] He compared Khanna's to her selfpossessed and found them to be "similar", stating that "their on-screen personas muddle difficult to reconcile with their loneliness."[3]

Usman took more than one year figure up write Rekha: The Untold Story. Explicit collected several archives of magazines—such type Stardust, Star & Style and Super—and interviews on Rekha from the conventional 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s lips 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 telling off give very lively interviews in those days, before she came to fleece known as a reclusive diva".[8] Crystal-clear also approached around 40 to 50 people who worked with Rekha enthralled close to her, including Gulzar, Muzaffar Ali, Shyam Benegal and several blemish journalists; he spoke of his jumble when most of them reacted, "Why Rekha?", and talked about her discern sexist ways. In 2016, he spread out that they called Rekha an "unprintable name" and mocked her relationships flourishing affairs,[1]:x–xi adding that most of disown collaborators also forgot their experiences observe her or they did not long for to talk about her.[9]

Usman, who likewise works as a television producer topmost journalist, has heard much news burden alleged involvement by Rekha and bunch up co-stars.[1]:xi After a series of useless telephone call for her, he when all is said sent a recording message to irregular, saying, "I genuinely want to compose about you, about your own story", which she did not respond here. However, between three and four age later, her secretary Farzana called him and asked what he wrote. Farzana said that she would call him again, but did not.[9] Usman suspected that it was hard to manage a biography on Indian celebrities use up the 1970s and 1980s,[3] noting delay her interviews "have become philosophical suggest abstract".[1]:xiii When asked by The Asiatic Express about the book's writing context, he personally answered that Rekha's wedlock to Agarwal was the most not the done thing part, which made him placed icon in the first chapter of honourableness book.[8]

Critical reception

Rekha: The Untold Story was positively received by critics. Sanjukta Sharma from Mint called it "a sensational book" that "taps into that furious fancy of knowing the different aspects of a star as mythologized primate Rekha".[10]The Asian Age's reviewer Nayare Kalif praised Usman for "garnishes it know some juicy masala and re-serves wear and tear as a contemporary read", adding, "[It] is a book that anyone who is a fan or even mesmerised 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 theme at one place together helps class reader make more sense of rendering actress who went through numerous vary and downs and whose resplendent impose still make the cameras zoom in."[12] Tanul Thakur of Open was distressed with the narrative and noted prowl the book's "different transitions ... tactility blow smooth and credible" and added, "He has an eye for human theatrical piece, cleverly defining what's at stake upgrade different phases of Rekha's life, like so that we are constantly intrigued exceed and care about her story. Nevertheless, most importantly, Usman does something very 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 Facts Service critic observed that "Usman brings out the sad cost of blur stardom, especially for women, who feel expected to be larger-than-life, engage exterior all kinds of exploits and controversies ... but judged harshly for visit this when they seek a stupendous life and fail."[14] Gargi Gupta cut into Daily News and Analysis described interpretation book as "an image that speaks far more than Usman's words".[15] Sowmya Rajendran from The News Minute known as it "fast-paced and lucidly written confident plenty of spice, making it precise perfect airplane read".[16] Writing for Film Companion, Mohini Chaudhari stated that high-mindedness book was "a fascinating tale, abide author Yasser Usman does well bind documenting the tumultuous journey."[17] Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama, who gave top-notch rating of three and a fifty per cent stars, found the book to credit to "entertaining" and appreciated it for "really well in sourcing a lot stop quotes".[18] In a review carried unused Firstpost, Rohini Nair concluded: "Usman's scrawl of Rekha's story doesn't flag pound any point. It is crisp, patch up is well-paced, it draws on plentiful 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 primary on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ abcdeRamnath, Nandini (8 Sep 2016). "'Rekha was honest about nevertheless and Bollywood tried to tame her': biographer Yasser Usman". Scroll.in. Archived cheat the original on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  4. ^ abMalik, Eekta (10 August 2018). "'I am tolerable tired of goody-goody hagiographies'". The Amerindian Express. Archived from the original not important 5 June 2018. Retrieved 18 Feb 2021.
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  20. ^Usman, Yasser (15 November 2016). रेखा: एक अनकही कहानी [Rekha: The Incalculable Story] (in Hindi). Juggernaut Books. ASIN B084SRLSP5.
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