Mujhe Jeene Doh-1963-In Madhya Pradesh! Video

Waheeda Rehman (Hindi: वहीदा रहमान), born on May 14, 1936 is a famous Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies.One of the most prominent actressses of the golden era, Waheeda Rehman was born into a traditional Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India[1]. Her father a District Magistrate.[2]

In an interview to Times of India she said that[3]. I was born in Chengalpattu, she reveals, I used to have a house in Chennai and agricultural land in the Red Hills area.

So, why the widespread belief that she was born in Hyderabad? Its a long story, she says, When I was in Chennai, I did three to four Telugu movies. In the first one, Rojulu Maraayi, I did only a folk dance number. However, it went on to become a hit! I was in Hyderabad celebrating its success and Guru Dutt happened to be there. He was on a lookout for new faces and heard that I could speak in Urdu. It is because he spotted me in Hyderabad that people assume I was born there.

Her dream was to become a doctor but due to circumstances and illness, she abandoned this goal. Instead she was trained in Bharatnatyam and prodded by her supportive parents, hit the silver screen with the Telugu film Jaisimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Maraayi (1955).Waheeda Rehman was discovered by Guru Dutt in a film and was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) and cast as a vamp in his production C.I.D. (1956), directed by Raj Khosla. A few years after joining the Hindi film industry, she lost her mother. After the success of C.I.D., Guru Dutt gave her a leading role in Pyaasa (1957). It was at this point that she got involved in an unsuccessful love affair with Guru Dutt. Their next venture together, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), depicted the story of a successful director's decline after he falls for his leading lady. Guru Dutt's existing marriage and her film successes with other directors caused them to drift apart personally and professionally, although they continued to work together into the 1960s Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) under some strain. They broke away from each other after the film's indifferent reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Soon afterwards, Guru Dutt died on October 10, 1964 in Mumbai reportedly from an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. Waheeda Rahman was cast as "Gulabi" in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film Abhijan in 1962.