Waheeda Rehman, famous Bollywood actress who still appears in Bollywood pictures, has most remarkable ones like C.I.D. and Guru Dutt classics like Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, etc. to her credit. Waheeda Rehman was found by Guru Dutt in a movie and was asked to come over to Mumbai. Kaagaz Ke Phool is a story of a successful filmmaker's downfall after he falls in love with the main lead. Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman were featured together in Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam under some pressure.Soon Guru Dutt and Waheeda called off their relationship after the movie’s dull reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Waheeda Rehman was cast as "Gulabi" in Satyajit Ray's Bengali movie Abhijan in 1962.
The actress’s career prolonged throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s respectively. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her characters she played in Guide and Neel Kamal . She had also won National award for her performance in Reshma Aur Shera, some of the flicks bombed at the box office. Since her presence in the film Lamhe she took retirement from the film industry for almost 12 long years. On 21 November 2000, her husband died following a prolonged illness. In recent years the actress made a comeback enacting elderly mother and grandmother roles in Om Jai Jagadish, Water and the most memorable movie
Rang De Basanti and
Delhi6 which were all critically praised.
