![]() ![]() How can you blame a poor girl who finds herself face to face with the idol of whom she's dreamed for nights without end? Their dosti went on strong until Rekha had to go to Poona for a month-long location-shooting of Sawan Bhadon. Rekha accompanied him everywhere he went. Sajid was the more experienced of the two-I mean, he'd been in permissive America and all that. There followed a rapid succession of midnight rendezvous midnight-to-hell drives and nine o'clock pairs to parties. "That's Sajid Khan? He's my favourite! I'm in love with him! I have collected every photograph of his!"She scrambled out of the van in which she had driven into the studio compound and ran straight up to Sajid Khan. ![]() Rekha spotted him one morning at Mehboob Studios.It was the blast-off for her first serious friendship,I remember Rekha's words clearly when she set eyes on him, because I was around then and saw what occurred."Oh my God!" this was said with awe and reverence. It was during this period that Sajid Khan had just returned from the States after making a big name for himself there. Rekha was given tuition to perfect her Hindi diction, and her dancing. In the meantime, Mohan Segal had put up Rekha and her mother at a posh hotel in Juhu. The Sawan Bhadon unit did not immediately leave for location shooting in Poona. The girl had apparently seen life raw and lived it to the full even before catching that plane to Bombay. Could this outspoken fifteen-year-old have been coached to say the boldest things? I doubt it. They had never encountered anyone, new or old, who was as frank and fearless as this brash, young girl-woman. ![]() Yet Rekha was never at a loss for the quick retort.īy the time that party was over no doubts remained that she had won the journalists completely over. And as the intake of pegs by our brethren of the Fourth Estate increased, so did their questions grow bolder. Her answers to all questions were bold and spoken out. A party was thrown to introduce her to the press. It was in the winter of '68 that Mohan Segal signed Rekha for her first Hindi movie opposite Navin Nischol: The name Sawan Bhadon. SHE was just a fifteen - year - old with an enviable bust line (read forty-two), when she first landed in Bombay fresh out of the starched uniform of some convent school in Madras. ![]()
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