Rehana Sultan

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Rehana Sultan
Born	(1950-11-19) November 19, 1950 Allahabad, India
Occupation	actor
Spouse(s)	B.R. Ishara

Rehana Sultan, (born 19 November c.1950^[1]) is an Indian film actress best known for her debut role in the acclaimed 1970 film Dastak which won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, she is also known for another bold role in the film Chetna (1970), which got her typecast thus ending her film career, despite its promising start.^[2]^[3]

Biography

Born and raised in Allahabad to Bahá'í parents, she graduated from the High School in 1967, and got selected in the same year to study acting at FTII.^[4] After she graduated with a sexy role in Vishwanath Ayengar's diploma film Shadi Ki Pehli Salgirah (1967),^[5] she got her break in a feature film in Rajinder Singh Bedi's Dastak (1970), making her the first actress from the Institute to land a lead role in the film industry.^[6]^[7] She won the National Film Award for her role in that film. In the same year she also played the lead role in the film Chetna which was shot in 28 days along with the shooting of Dastak. That film was about the rehabilitation of prostitutes, and her role changed the portrayal of sex workers in Hindi cinema.^[8]

Her sexy roles brought her success but also limited her choice of roles in future films. She landed not too many films including Haar Jeet (1972), Prem Parvat (1973), and the famous political satire Kissa Kursi Ka (1977). After starring in Vijay Anand’s Hum Rahen Na Rahen (1984) with Shabana Azmi, she got married in 1984 to writer-director B. R. Ishara, who had directed Chetna. The couple lives in Mumbai.^[9] She appeared in a television series for ETV. She also appeared in a Punjabi movie Putt Jattan De (1981) with Shatrughan Sinha.

Awards

1971 National Film Award for Best Actress: Dastak

References

↑ If she passed her 10th standard exams in 1967, she was born 1950-1951. However, she may have been born earlier.
↑ Rehana Sultan who was a trailblazing ‘sexy actress’ The Telegraph, 25 November 2005.
↑ Anupama Chopra (September 28, 2011). "Why Silk Smitha is Bollywood's favourite bad girl". NDTV Movies.
↑ Down the memory lane with Rehana Sultan movies.indiainfo.com, 29 October 2008.
↑ The Sunday Standard, Bombay, India, June 10, 1973.
↑ Charge of the FTII brigade Screen.
↑ Merits - FTII
↑ Fallen women in Bollywood films Times of India, 26 July 2004.
↑ Rehana Sultan - Interview

External links

Rehana Sultan at the Internet Movie Database

v t e National Film Award for Best Actress

1967–1980	Nargis Dutt (1967) Sharada (1968) Madhabi Mukherjee (1969) Rehana Sultan (1970) Waheeda Rehman (1971) Sharada (1972) Nandini Bhaktavatsala (1973) Shabana Azmi (1974) Sharmila Tagore (1975) Lakshmi (1976) Smita Patil (1977) Sharada (1978) Shoba (1979) Smita Patil (1980)

1981–2000	Rekha (1981) Shabana Azmi (1982) Shabana Azmi (1983) Shabana Azmi (1984) Suhasini (1985) Monisha (1986) Archana (1987) Archana (1988) Sreelekha Mukherji (1989) Vijayashanti (1990) Moloya Goswami (1991) Dimple Kapadia (1992) Shobana (1993) Debashree Roy (1994) Seema Biswas (1995) Tabu (1996) Indrani Haldar and Rituparna Sengupta (1997) Shabana Azmi (1998) Kirron Kher (1999) Raveena Tandon (2000)

2001–present	Shobana and Tabu (2001) Konkona Sen Sharma (2002) Meera Jasmine (2003) Tara (2004) Sarika (2005) Priyamani (2006) Umashree (2007) Priyanka Chopra (2008) Ananya Chatterjee (2009) Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar and Saranya Ponvannan (2010) Vidya Balan (2011) Usha Jadhav (2012)

Persondata
Name	Sultan, Rehana
Alternative names
Short description	Indian actor
Date of birth	November 19, 1950
Place of birth	Allahabad, India
Date of death
Place of death

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