If you ask us what is the first name that comes to your mind when someone says beauty with apt versatile acting skills, we will surely say the name of Waheeda Rehman. The stunning beauty of the past year, Waheeda Rehman, has showcased her acting performance in every genre of the cinema. The actress mastered the art of slipping into the skin of any character without stepping out of her own comfort zone. Having heart-warming chemistry with every actor of that era, the actress nurtured a number of blockbuster movies. In the honor of the actress, today here we bring you a look at the top 10 mesmerizing movies of the time-less beauty Waheeda Rehman.
1. Guide: Guide is that one movie of Rehman’s acting career that helped her redefine her acting skills. Playing the role of Rosy, Waheeda became the heart of the movie with her performance as the loss of Dev Anand’s character. Not just her acting skills, the actress showcased her marvelous moves in the movie.
2. Kaagaz Ke Phool: Kaagaz Ke Phool is one of the few classics of Waheeda Rehman’s career. The story of the movie revolves around a renowned director Suresh Sinha, who gets stunned by the beauty of a woman, named Shanti. Too stunned by her beauty, he fell in love and decided to cast her in his movie. But after that, after the success of the movie, Shanti’s career went into the sky and Suresh dropped to the ground.
3. Sahib Bibi Aur Gulam: Sahib Bibi Aur Gulam is still one of the boldest movies of all time. There is no denying that the movie was all in all Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt’s story. But Waheeda managed to make a place for herself in the movie with her unmissable acting performance. In the movie, she was seen playing the role of Jaba.
4. Khamoshi: if you are looking for a spine-chilling performance with the punch of emotions, this movie is for you. Filled with complexities, Waheeda played the role of Radha in the movie, who is asked to feign love for a man suffering a nervous breakdown after being jilted in love. Not getting your eyes teary after seeing the mental breakdown of the actress, in the end, is nothing less than an impossible task.
5. Pyaasa: Pyaasa is the story of an Urdu Poet who was forced to write on social issues after being rejected by the publishers for writing about his romantic imagination. The film follows his encounters with the golden-hearted prostitute Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman) and his former girlfriend Meena (Sinha), how the former helps him to get his poetry published, the success of his works, and his romantic relationship with Gulabo.
6. Neel Kamal: Neel Kamal is a complex story that has a beauty of its own. The story of the movie is about Ram who marries Sita after rescuing him from a train track. Later they found out that she is struggling with sleepwalking. Soon they get to know that is her search for someone she was attracted to at her previous birth.
7. Darpan: In Darpan, Waheeda played a prostitute being rehabilitated by Sunil Dutt, a role he played earlier to Vyjanthiamala in Sadhana. But here, the sex worker was not a simpering poetess and so, she was rejected by the moral police in the screenplay as well as the audience watching the film.
8. Teesari Kasam: Starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in lead, Teesari Kasam is the portrayal of rural Indian society. It is the story of a naive bullock cart driver Hiraman, who falls in love with Hirabai, a dancer at a nautanki. The film also deals with the issue of exploitation of women in the performing arts, especially in traveling folk theatre.
9. Phagun: There are scenes where Waheeda's Shanta had to enact a character, who gets attracted to her own son-in-law. Not an easy emotional outlet for an actress as dignified as herself. She told me Phagun was a mistake because it relegated her to mothers' roles prematurely.
10. Abhijaan: In her only film with the great Satyajit Ray, Waheeda played a free-spirited rural woman -- a widow named Gulabi who does what her heart wants. Tricked into the flesh trade, she happily sleeps with a man (Soumitra Chatterjee) with no strings attached because she loves him. Gulabi was a true feminist, long before feminism became fashionable in films
