Rekha, she was once the queen of Bollywood. She ruled the hearts and the Bollywood with her looks and noted for her versatility. She is often acknowledged as one of the finest actresses in Hindi cinema.
But, Rekha personal life have always been talked about as much as her talent and beauty. From her alleged love affairs to broken marriages, the mystery around the personal life of the diva defies to fade away.
Rekha’s autobiography, Rekha: The Untold Story, written by Yasser Usman is doing rounds on the internet and reveal some of the most twisted highs and lows of Rekha’s personal life. From a forced smooch at a age of 15 to how Bollywood turned against her after her husband’s suicide, Rekha’s life surely hasn’t been a happy one.
While Rekha has never said a word about her alleged relationship with Amitabh Bachchan, the book unveils a lot of details about their much-publicized affair. Rekha reveals how Jaya Bachchan had barred BigB from working with Rekha after Silsila and accused Rekha of shaming the respected family. After reports of affairs with actors Jeetendra, Dharmendra and Sunil Dutt, she was labeled as a “man eater”, a “black widow” and a “marriage breaker”.
Here are 6 most shocking revelations made in the biography, that make it a must-read!
When a 15-year-old Rekha was kissed forcefully while the unit members kept whistling and cheering!
Rekha accused actor Biswajeet Chatterjee of a forced smooch while shooting for her debut film Anjana Safar, which in today’s time, would be termed as molestation. Director Raja Nawathe and Biswajeet had it all planned, and during what was supposed to be a romantic scene, Biswajeet grabbed Rekha and kissed her lips for full five minutes, and the crew kept whistling and cheering him on.
When she was beaten up with a chappal by her “mother-in-law”.
Rekha had reportedly married Vinod Mehra, but denied the same with an interview to Simi Garewal. The biography, however, says something else.
Rekha had tied the know with Vinod Mehra and the just married couple made their way to Mehra’s residence in Mumbai. His mother was not welcoming at all. She refused to let Rekha in the house and verbally abused her.
The anger reached a tipping point when she took off her chappals and started to beat Rekha. Rekha ran away in tears and never went back.
When Rekha attended Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh’s wedding wearing a Sindoor and Mangal sutra and left everyone stunned with one question: “Had Rekha married?”
The most famous Bollywood incident when Rekha showed up at Rishi Kapoor’s wedding with sindoor on her forehead. All the guests and the media were surprised and shocked, they couldn’t stop wondering if Rekha had got secretly married. She wore a shining white saree and a mangalsutra-sindoor combo, she went up to Big B and started chatting with him. This made Jaya Bachchan very furious over Rekha.
How Rekha’s ‘perfect’ marriage turned into a living nightmare, resulting in his husband’s misfortunate suicide.
Mukesh Agarwal, Rekha’s then husband, suffered from chronic depression, which was only aggravated by their divorce. Mukesh hanged himself from the ceiling fan using Rekha’s dupatta. This was the third husband of Rekha who had died, which led to people all over the country (including industry friends) accusing her of witchcraft. Director Subhash Ghai accused her of putting a blot on the face of the film industry, while actor Anupam Kher called her a national vamp.
Rekha made Bold statements “You can’t come close, really close to a man without making love”
Rekha was vocal about her thought about sex, which only caused more public outrage against her. She said explosive things in an interview which include statements like “You can’t come close, really close to a man without making love”, “It is sheer fluke that I have never got pregnant so far”, “Premarital sex is very natural”.
When Jaya Bachchan Cried While Watching Romantic Scenes Of Amitabh & Rekha !
The last movie she did with the biggest star the country has seen was Prakash Mehra’s ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikander’. The film that released in 1978, put a virtual period to their reportedly surreptitious yet passionate relationship. Speculators attributed the rift to Jaya Bachchan having given an ultimatum to Big B.
But turns out, in an interview to Stardust, Rekha had revealed the real reason behind it.
“Once I was looking at the whole (Bachchan) family through the projection room when they came to see the trial show of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. Jaya was sitting in the front row and he (Amitabh) and his parents were in the row behind her. They couldn’t see her as clearly as I could. And during our love scenes, I could see tears pouring down her face. A week later (after the trial show of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar), everybody in the industry was telling me that he has made it clear to his producers that he was not going to work with me.