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Waheeda Rahman
Waheeda Rehman in Pyaasa (1957)
Born	May 14, 1936 (1936-05-14) (age 71) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Spouse(s)	Kamaljit Singh
Awards Filmfare Awards Best Actress: Guide (1965) Best Actress: Neel Kamal (1969) Lifetime Achievement (1995) National Film Awards Best Actress: Reshma Aur Shera (1972)

Waheeda Rehman (born May 14, 1936) is a famous Indian actress whose prime was in the late-1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She has an alternated date of birth of February 3, 1936, and stands 5'1" tall.

Waheeda Rehman was born into a traditional Muslim family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in 1936. Her father, a DM, was posted all over the South. She had dreamt of becoming a doctor, but destiny willed otherwise and she could not undergo proper schooling, due to some infection in her lungs. She was trained in Bharatnatyam and, prodded by her helpful parents, hit the silver screen with the Telugu film Jaisimha (1955), followed by Rojulu Maraayi (1955). She lost her father at the age of twelve.

She was spotted by Guru Dutt in a song in a later film and was brought to Bombay and cast as a vamp in his production C.I.D. (1956), directed by Raj Khosla. A few years after joining Hindi film industry, she lost her mother. After the success of C.I.D., she was given a leading role in Pyaasa (1957). It was at this point that she got involved in an unsuccessful love affair with director Guru Dutt. Their next venture together, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), depicted the story of a successful director's fall from grace after he falls for his leading lady, and foreshadowed events in Guru Dutt's own life as well. Guru Dutt's marital status and her success in films outside his tore them apart personally and professionally, although they continued to work together in 1960's Chaudhvin Ka Chand. She completed Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) under some strain. They broke away from each other after the film's indifferent reception at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963. Guru Dutt committed suicide in 1964.

Her career continued throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her roles in Guide (1965) and Neel Kamal (1968), but despite good roles in subsequent films some of the films failed at the box office. At around this time, Kamaljit Singh (who starred opposite her in Shagun (1964)) proposed marriage. She accepted the proposal and they were married on April 27, 1974. After her marriage, she shifted to a farmhouse in Bangalore and took to farming. She bore two children named Sohail and Kashvi. After her appearance in Lamhe (1991) she retired from the film industry. On November 21, 2000 her husband died following a prolonged illness she moved back to her sea-facing bungalow in Bandra, Bombay where she lives currently.

In recent years she made a comeback to films with Om Jai Jagadish (2002), Water (2005) and Rang De Basanti (2006) which were all critically acclaimed.

In October of 2004, a Waheeda Rehman film retrospective was held at the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington where Waheeda participated in spirited panel and audience discussions on her most memorable films, Pyaasa, Teesri Kasam and Guide. She was and still is a big Diwani Hundi fan.

• Filmfare Best Actress Award for Guide in 1965
• Filmfare Best Actress Award for Neel Kamal in 1968
• Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994

• Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress--Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)
• Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress--Ram Aur Shyam (1967)
• Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress--Khamoshi (1970)
• Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress--Kabhi Kabhie (1976)
• Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress--Namkeen (1982)
• Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress--Lamhe (1991)

This article or section contains a list of works that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, but not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order) and may need cleanup.

1. Chukalo lo chandrudu, telugu movie (2006) .... Hero's Grand-Mother
2. Rang De Basanti (2006) .... Ajay's Mother
3. 15 Park Avenue (2005) .... Mrs. Mathur/Mrs. Gupta
4. Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005) .... Principal Khanna
5. Water (2005 film) (2005) .... Bhagavati
6. Om Jai Jagadish (2002) .... Saraswati Batra
7. Lamhe (1991) .... Dai Jaa
8. Chandni (1989) .... Mrs. Khanna
9. Mashaal (1984) .... Sudha Kumar
10. Coolie (1983) .... Salma
11. Mahaan (1983) .... Janki
12. Himmatwala (1983) .... Savitri
13. Namak Halaal (1982) .... Savitridevi
14. Sawaal (1982) .... Anju D. Mehta
15. Trishul (1978) .... Shanti
16. Kabhi Kabhie (1976) .... Anjali Malhotra
17. Aadalat (1976)
18. Phagun (1973)
19. Reshma Aur Shera (1971) .... Reshma
20. Prem Pujari (1970) .... Suman Mehra
21. Khamoshi (1969) .... Nurse Radha
22. Aadmi (1968)
23. Neel Kamal (1968) .... Rajkumari Neel Kamal/Sita
24. Ram Aur Shyam (1967) .... Anjana
25. Patthar Ke Sanam (1967)
26. Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966) .... Roopa
27. Teesri Kasam (1966) .... Hira Bai
28. Guide (1965) .... Rosie Marco/Miss Nalini
29. Kohra (1964) .... Rajashwari
30. Mujhe Jeene Do (1963)
31. Baat Ek Raat Ki (1962) .... Neela/Meena
32. Bees Saal Baad (1962) .... Radha
33. Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) .... Jaba
34. Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) .... Jameela
35. Ek Phool Char Kaante (1960) .... Sushma
36. Kala Bazar (1960) .... Alka
37. Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) .... Shanti
38. Solva Saal (1958)
39. 12 O'Clock (1958) .... Bani Chaudhary
40. Pyaasa (1957) .... Gulabo

• Waheeda Rehman at the Internet Movie Database
• Waheeda Rehman
• A Film Retrospective in Seattle. October 2004 *[1]