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Okay I had no idea it was Waheeda Ji's birthday today and now that I have Imma quickly gonna post something veryyyy underrated and dear to my heart. This bhajan is very soulful.
Its calm wrapped in a box.
Singer : Asha Bhonsle
Movie : Neel Kamal (1968)
Music Director : Ravi Shankar Sharma
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Okayyyy Bye. <3
Love y'all. ❤️
One of my favourite songs
That subtle shudder between 3.05-3.15 is so real, the shock and the feeling of it. Heartbreaking indeed.
Some of my favorite Waheeda Rehman duets:
Tum jo huye mere humsafar - 12 O'Clock (1958)
Music: O.P. Nayyar
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Singers: Mohammad Rafi and Geeta Dutt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c60uJHdP1Tk
Tum hee tum ho mere jeevan mein - Ek dil sau afsane (1963)
Music: Shankar Jaikishen
Lyrics: Shailendra
Singers: Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag2XtqWZ5jE
Saawan aaye ya na aaye - Dil diya dard liya (1966)
Music: Naushad
Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni
Singers: Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcRnmS6k4bQ
Please post your favorite Waheeda songs or trivia or movies on her birthday!
Waheeda was born in Tamilnadu but brought up, and her school education was in Vishakhapatnam (AP).
She knows both Telugu and Tamil but started her career with Telugu movies Jayasimha and Rojulu Maaraayi in the 50s. Later she acted in Tamil also but because of her shift to Bombay, she was not able to contribute to the South cine field much. But her Telugu and Tamil pictures are super hits.
She is fluent in Telugu and enjoys South Indian cuisine. This I know because my mother's cousin was in Bombay at the time; her father was the All India Radio Station Director, and they used to live in Marin Drive. Waheeda used to stay in the next flat, and whenever she came home, she used to ask for Dosa, Pesarattu from my mother's cousin, and she used to relish it and pamper the kids.
After the death of her husband, she moved from Bangalore to Mumbai to her ocean-view bungalow in Bandra, where she currently resides. Once in 2003 I saw her standing next to me while having Siddhi Vinayak Darshan, I was so confused, I couldn't decide whether to have Divine Darshan or the aura of beauty!
In 2011, the Government of India honored Rehman with the Padma Bhushan the third-highest civilian award of the country.
Apart from acting, Waheeda is a philanthropist. She is an advocate for education and is an ambassador for Rang De, an organization combating poverty in India.
Here is her famous snake dance from Guide---
Originally posted by: Viswasruti
Waheeda was born in Tamilnadu but brought up, and her school education was in Vishakhapatnam (AP).
She knows both Telugu and Tamil but started her career with Telugu movies Jayasimha and Rojulu Maaraayi in the 50s. Later she acted in Tamil also but because of her shift to Bombay, she was not able to contribute to the South cine field much. But her Telugu and Tamil pictures are super hits.
She is fluent in Telugu and enjoys South Indian cuisine. This I know because my mother's cousin was in Bombay at the time; her father was the All India Radio Station Director, and they used to live in Marin Drive. Waheeda used to stay in the next flat, and whenever she came home, she used to ask for Dosa, Pesarattu from my mother's cousin, and she used to relish it and pamper the kids.
After the death of her husband, she moved from Bangalore to Mumbai to her ocean-view bungalow in Bandra, where she currently resides. Once in 2003 I saw her standing next to me while having Siddhi Vinayak Darshan, I was so confused, I couldn't decide whether to have Divine Darshan or the aura of beauty!
In 2011, the Government of India honored Rehman with the Padma Bhushan the third-highest civilian award of the country.
Apart from acting, Waheeda is a philanthropist. She is an advocate for education and is an ambassador for Rang De, an organization combating poverty in India.
Here is her famous snake dance from Guide---
Such a sweet post ❤️
Loved it.
She was considered as one of the very intelligent actresses of the Indian cine field.
She knows how to make her subject comfortable and gently provide the stimulus to extract a goldmine of information.
Waheeda adroitly delineates the uniqueness of each director in a manner that not only distinguishes each filmmaker from the other but also reveals her forthright personality. Her vehement objection to wearing a skimpy blouse and a diaphanous chiffon saree for a 16-year-old guileless character in a particular scene because it would look unnatural pitted her against director Raj Khosla during the shooting of her third feature film – Solva Saal (1958); “Lo ji, now she is telling me how to direct.” An exasperated Khosla, who was her first Hindi film director, on CID, had to relent eventually. The event marked the arrival of a heroine who did not hesitate to speak her mind and put her foot down if she felt the director’s vision went against the characterization and the plot – and she was only 19!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJ4oeUagXU
I know her personally as a person next door through my mother's cousin, and yes, I had a close encounter with her, and at that moment I was stunned. Such was her beauty!Originally posted by: LizzieBennet
Thanks for sharing that anecdote, Madhu.
I can imagine how you must have felt standing beside her! I would be dumbstruck too!
Amazing that your mother's cousin knew her closely!
Waheeda Rehman as Rosie, the raw, real, and complex character, is an absolute dream! The doe-eyed beauty is so stunning, it was hard to take my eyes off her. Each sequence and dialogue is delivered with sincerity and genuine emotion. Add to the mix her effortless dancing – I was floored when I first saw that movie.
What’s remarkable is that Rosie’s trajectory has motivation. She’s not simply a damsel in distress. She’s feisty, raw and terrified at the same time.
Amongst the two directors she worked with for Guide (1965) – on the Hindi and the English versions, she has all praises for Goldie (as Vijay Anand was known) who directed the Hindi version: “Goldie would explain precisely how the scene should be played. You must be angry or upset with a director, but he must be clear… I give full credit to Goldie. He treated the story so beautifully and in such a dignified way. The relationship between Raju and Rosie (the character she plays) never seemed cheap. In some Hindi films, the other woman is called a ‘rakhail’ (mistress) and is portrayed as a vulgar person, more of a vamp type. But Goldie portrayed her in a modern and decent light.” But for Tad Danielewski, the American who directed the English version, based on a screenplay by Nobel prize-winner Pearl S Buck, she had reservations; “I may act in a certain way, but the director might feel it is too much and will suggest lowering the pitch or what needs to doing to enhance the performance. The director must be clear about the tone of the scene and Tad Danielewski was vague. Whenever I asked him anything, he would say: ‘Maybe, maybe.’ You can say that sometimes, but not all the time. You need the director to be clear! "
Many may not know this fact !!😊 She once said---
Incidentally, it was Satyajit Ray who suggested she read RK Narayan’s The Guide (published in 1958)because he was considering adopting it. “He told me if the film ever took off, he would cast me as Rosie. She had to be a good dancer, and he knew South Indians were usually good dancers, and so he had thought of me.” This was two years before Dev Anand decided to produce it. “Satyajit Ray would have conceived the film in a completely different way”, she remarks.
I just finished reading that article.
She sounds so intelligent and progressive!
Her take on the movies of today makes so much sense. She's not stuck on nostalgia simply for the sake of it.
And of course, her no-nonsense attitude is legendary.
I knew about that Raj Khosla incident, she has spoken about it in a candid interview on DD I think
