Bhanurekha Ganesan better known by her stage name Rekha, is an Indian film actress who has mainly appeared in Hindi films. Noted for her versatility and acknowledged as one of the finest actresses in Hindi Cinema Rekha started her career in 1966 as a child actress in the Telgu Film Rangula Ratnam, which won the National film award for best feature film in telgu for that year, though her film debut as a lead happened four years later with Sawan bhadon(1970). Despite the success of several of her early films, she was often panned for her looks and it was not until the mid-to-late 1970s that she got recognition as an actress. Since the late 1970s, after undertaking a physical transformation, she has been featured as a sex symbol in the Indian media.

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