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Waheeda Rehman is an Indian actress who has appeared in mainly Hindi films, as well as Telugu films. She is noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. She has received a Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality, a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Film Award for Best Actress and two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress, throughout her career. She has been cited as the Bollywood's "most beautiful" actress by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity.
Rehman was born into a Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Madras Province, British India. She was in her teens when her father had died. Her dream was to become a doctor but, due to her family circumstances and her mother illness, she abandoned her goal. In order, to help her family, she hit the silver screen with Telugu films, Jayasimha, followed by Rojulu Marayi and a Tamil film Kaalam Maari Pochu. It is in Vijaya-Suresh's Ram aur Shyam in 1967 that she acted again under the direction of the topnotch Telugu director Tapi Chanakya who incidentally directed her movies Rojulu Maaraayi in Telugu and Kaalam Maaripochu in Tamil.
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