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Rakesh Roshan said he never experienced any unprofessionalism from Rekha.
Rakesh Roshan and Rekha
Veteran actress Rekha ventured into Bollywood in the 1970s and became a sensation due to her stellar acting prowess and screen presence. However, some wanted to bring her down and started spreading rumours that the actress was unprofessional. Rakesh Roshan came to Rekha’s defence. Rakesh shared in an interview with ANI that many people warned him about casting Rekha in Khoon Bhari Maang. However, he didn’t pay attention to the rumour mill.
Rakesh said, “Rekha has a quality which very few heroines have. She is different in all her films. I did a couple of films with her as an actor – Khoobsurat, Aakraman and Aurat. When I went to her with a mother’s role in Khoon Bhari Maang as a director, people warned me against her. They said you are making a film with her, she never comes on time, always runs away before time.”
“I always heard these rumours about her, but whenever I worked with her, I never witnessed any such thing. When I went to Rekha as a director, I told her, ‘Listen, this is only my second film, and it is a difficult subject. It is a woman-oriented film. I am taking a risk with this film. The story was such that in the climax, the wife kills her husband. I asked her clearly, ‘You won’t give me any trouble na?’ She was like, ‘What are you even saying? Have I ever done this? I only trouble people who don’t pay me or they don’t fulfil their commitments.’ I said okay,” he recalled.
Rakesh Roshan also recalled approaching Rekha for a role in Koi Mil Gaya. He shared, “I went to narrate the story to her. After narrating the story, I asked her, ‘How is it?’. She is very clever. She quickly said, ‘You are not narrating this story to me because you want my feedback, you are narrating this to me because you want me to play the role of the mother.’ I said, ‘Yes’.”