Since the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted 68 years ago, only seven Indian women from Indian cinema have been bestowed with the award. Asha Parekh happens to be only the seventh one. Shoma A. Chatterji profiles one of the most successful heroines of Hindi films who received the honour from President Droupadi Murmu on Sept 30. Asha Parekh ruled the Hindi screen much before the term ‘Bollywood’ was even conceived with one hit film after another. And to think that […]
Asha Parekh started her career as a child artist under the screen name Baby Asha Parekh. Years later, film producer Subodh Mukherjee and writer-director Nasir Hussain cast her as the heroine in Dil Deke Dekho (1959), opposite Shammi Kapoor, which made her a huge star. | Tellychakkar.com