![]() ![]() Whatever their words, they all (openly or grudgingly) wanted to be Rekha.Ī generation later, I followed suit. Their tones varied from shocked to mollified to admiring. Aunties at weddings gossiped about her famed love life between unsolicited matchmaking activities. Urban legends about her being secretly married to actor Amitabh Bachchan did the rounds tirelessly. Most ’90s kids in India grew up with parents who either loved, cursed or gloried in the light of Rekha. She had the best eyeliner game I’ve ever seen this side of the country. Her poster, a still from the film Khoon Bhari Maang (1988), was easily the largest one in the room and the most prominently displayed. Among all the posters at Dadar’s pink-walled Simran Beauty Parlour, Bollywood actor Rekha held first chair. ![]() In the late ’90s, female actors adorning the posters at my mother’s preferred beauty parlour were more compelling than the white girls with blonde highlights that now decorate salon doors. ![]()
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