Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress who has appeared in mainly Hindi films, as well as Telugu, Tamil and Bengali films. She is noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. She has received the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality, the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Film Award for Best Actress and two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress throughout her career. She has been cited as Bollywood's "most beautiful" actress by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity. Waheeda Rehman was born in a Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India. She and her sister learnt Bharatnatyam in Chennai, where Guru Trichunder Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and (in Bombay), Guru Jayalaxmi Alva, Doyen among nattuvanars taught and performed on stage together. Her father, who was a district commissioner, died while she was in her teens. Rehman’s dream was to become a doctor, but, due to her family's circumstances and her mother's illness, she abandoned her goal. In order to help her family, she hit the silver screen with Telugu films; Jayasimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Marayi (1955) and a Tamil film Kaalam Maari Pochu (1956). It was in Vijaya-Suresh's Ram aur Shyam (a remake of the Telugu movie Ramudu Bheemudu) in 1967 that she acted again under the direction of the topnotch Telugu director Tapi Chanakya, who incidentally directed her movies Rojulu Maaraayi (in Telugu) (1955) and Kaalam Maaripochu (in Tamil) (1956).

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