It used to be throughout the 1970’s that Rekha got slightly of a cult standing. Regardless that superstar had already been appearing for some time ahead of that, her identify ruled tabloids on the time. One of the sensational information at the moment used to be when she entered Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor’s wedding ceremony, dressed in sindoor (vermillion) inflicting a large number of chatter.
Then again later, Rekha later informed Hindustan Instances that she had come instantly from a shoot, and had forgotten to take off the sindoor. She stated that she wasn’t ‘fearful’ about other people’s reactions. “I feel it appears to be like fairly great on me. Sindoor fits me.”
Within the unofficial biography, Rekha: The Untold Tale, penned through Yasser Usman, the incident is described in a lot element. “Wearing an impressive white sari, Rekha had a vivid purple bindi on her brow. However what stuck everybody’s eye used to be the beneficiant dabbing of sindoor in her hair. The cameras right away pivoted clear of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, and frenetically photographed Rekha’s curious new glance. The uninteresting drone of everybody murmuring and whispering stuffed the night air; everybody sought after to grasp: had Rekha married?” He had written. In keeping with a Cine Blitz record on the time, Rekha congratulated Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor after which stood ‘bang within the heart’ of the lawn. She then went over to Amitabh Bachchan and had a proper dialog with him for a few mins.”
Ussman wrote that Rekha later cleared the air in an ‘anticlimactic’ interview. “She had come to the reception instantly from a shoot. The sindoor and mangalsutra she used to be dressed in had been a part of her get-up for a movie, which she had forgotten to take away,” he wrote.
Then again, in line with a record printed in Film in June 1982, at a Nationwide Awards serve as, Rekha, who used to be being honoured with the award for very best actress for Umrao Jaan (1981), used to be requested through then president of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, ‘Why do you have got sindoor on your maang?’ Rekha replied, “Within the town I come from, it’s trendy to put on sindoor.”