Kochi: Bollywood icon Waheeda Rehman, 85, has won the country’s highest film honour Dadasaheb Phalke Award, media reports said.
Hailing from Chengalpattu in Tamil Nadu, Waheeda was outstanding in all her films.nion Minister Anurag Thakur wrote in X: “I feel an immensesense of happiness and honour in announcing that Waheeda Rehman ji is being bestowed with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award this year for her stellar contribution to Indian Cinema…
Winner of National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards, she was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1972, and Padma Bhushan in 2011. She has worked in atleast 90 films during five decades, the reports said. She debuted in Tamil film ‘Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum’ as a dancer. It was the Telugu film Rojulu Marayi of 1955 that made her popular.
She hit headlines in Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962).
Waheeda’s other remarkable movies are romantic drama Guide (1965), romantic thriller Neel Kamal (1968), Ram Aur Shyam (1967) and Khamoshi (1969).
Later, she started taking supporting roles, like Kabhi Kabhie (1976), Chandni (1989) and Lamhe (1991), Trishul (1978), Namkeen (1982), Namak Halaal (1982), Mashaal (1984), Rang De Basanti (2006) and Delhi 6 (2009). She is a philanthropist and is associated with Rang De in fighting poverty.
