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Some rate Waheeda Rehman as the most beautiful heroine of her times. Her lissome frame, her chiseled features, her eloquent eyes, her bewitching smile \u2013 with a native intelligence informing her being \u2013 will certainly give credence to this view.<\/p>\n
In Pyaasa, Mujhe Jeene Do,<\/em> The Guide<\/em> and Teesri Kasam<\/em> \u2013 Waheeda\u2019s best four movies to my mind, Waheeda played the women who traded their charms for sustenance. But what is noticeable in each of these movies is that the character ascribed to Waheeda was not the one of a woman repenting her station. The story did not change the woman at the core, in essence. There was no\u00a0need for that in fact, for beneath the cloak of easy virtuosity lay a woman of sensitivity, of magnanimity, of universally shared feminine aspirations or even of fidelity!<\/p>\n Prima facie, the four women could be seen as playing the second fiddle to the male characters in the lead. But that indeed will be a mistake. These movies at their subtlest levels had one thing in common: each woman turned a means to the metamorphosis of her male counterpart, to his regeneration! And this is remarkable.<\/p>\n Gulabo, the prostitute of Pyaasa<\/em>, epitomizes the craft and guile of a woman in the oldest profession as she charms Vijay to her \u2018den\u2019 \u2013 Jaane kya tune kahi<\/em>\u2026.. The invitation in her eyes in sync with a tad sly smile \u2013 Gulabo \/ Waheeda stands out. If Mona Lisa were to materialize in flesh and blood, she could not have appeared or done better than Gulabo.<\/p>\nPyaasa <\/em>(1957)<\/h2>\n
Jaane kya tune kahi, jaane kya maine suni<\/em><\/h4>\n