Entertainment News Desk – Rehana Sultan is a well-known actress of the 1970s, who made a lot of headlines with her very first film. She played the role of a young sex worker in the 1970 film ‘Chetna’, which made her famous overnight. Directed by Babu Ram Ishara, this film surprised the audience. Later the actress married the director of this film. The life of the actress was no less than a film story. Let us know some interesting aspects of his life on his birthday.
Started film career in 1970
Rehana Sultan was born on 19 November 1950 in Allahabad. After completing his school education, he started studying acting at FTII in the year 1967. He started acting in 1967 by playing a bold role in Vishwanath Iyengar’s diploma film ‘Shaadi Ki Pehli Girih’. In the year 1970, she entered the film world with her first feature film Chetna and became quite famous within a short time.
Have received National Award
Apart from her first film Chetna, the actress also appeared in the film Dastak released in the same year. Along with the shooting of Dastak, the shooting of Chetna was also completed in just 28 days. The actress received the National Award for Best Actress for Dastak. He played very bold characters in both the films. After this, he got a flood of such roles. Regarding her image in films, Rehana had told BBC – ‘At that time I had become just a typecast actress in films. The audience thought I was another name for sexuality. Even the director used to give me roles in the bathtub or while getting wet in the rain. I started getting irritated by all this.
Career took a break due to similar roles
In the initial days, due to the bold roles with which Rehana Sultan gained popularity, she also started getting lost in anonymity. The actress started getting the same type of roles continuously. In all these characters, there was an attempt to serve obscenity in the name of boldness, due to which she used to refuse most of the scripts. Gradually she started disappearing from the screen. Meanwhile, she married Babu Ram Ishara, the director of her first film. After marriage, the actress gradually disappeared from the screen completely.
faced financial difficulties
Rehana’s husband BR Ishara left this world in the year 2012. In the last days, Ishara had also stopped making films. After this, Rehana Sultan’s financial condition also worsened, when she was given financial help by the Cine and Television Artists Association. Rehana Sultan is now living a life of anonymity away from the film world. He underwent heart surgery this year. Meanwhile, news came that his financial condition was very bad, after which many famous personalities from the film and TV world like Rohit Shetty, Javed Akhtar, Ashok Pandit etc. helped him.
