How old is asha parikh

It made me depressed. I was feeling miserable and had suicidal thoughts. It was a struggle, I had to take aid of doctors to get out of it. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines. Komal RJ Panchal On the actor's birthday, revisiting her interview where she spoke about love, life and her best friends Waheeda Rehman and Helen. She also revealed how she battled depression with medical help.

View this post on Instagram. Since she was an only child, she became the center of her parents' lives. Her mother enrolled her in classical dance classes at an early age, and Asha excelled at dance to the point where she performed at stage shows. Famed film director Bimal Roy saw her dance at a stage function and cast her at the tender age of ten in Mother He liked her and cast her again in Baap Beti The film's failure disappointed her, and even though, she did a few more child roles, she quit to resume her schooling.

At sixteen, she decided to try acting again and make her debut as a heroine, but director Vijay Bhatt fired her from Goonj Uthi Shehnai claiming she wasn't star material. Almost immediately, film producer Sasadhar Mukherjee and writer-director Nasir Hussain cast her as the heroine in Dil Deke Dekho which made her a huge star.

Shammi Kapoor became her favorite hero and friend, and they starred in three more films, the most famous being the murder mystery Teesri Manzil The film also led to a long and fruitful association with Nasir, and he cast her as the heroine in six more films.

Her fame gave her enough leverage to get producers to hire her mother Sudha Parekh to design her costumes for most of the films that she starred in. The truth was directors and audiences knew early on that she had genuine acting talent. And she easily compensated for non-actors like Joy Mukherjee and Biswajit in Hindi films, while holding her own against acting giants like Ashok Kumar.

Important directors were casting her and repeating her in their films, but Asha also brought out jealousies from her female co-stars. Simi Garewal claimed that Asha tried to cut her part down in "Do Badan", but Asha insisted that she never did that, and as proof, she showed that Simi won the Filmfare Award as Best Supporting Actress for the film. The "Do Badan" team also stood by Asha, especially the director Raj Khosla who later cast her in three more films. Her leading man Manoj Kumar soon directed and starred opposite her in his blockbuster Upkar , which also won the Filmfare Best Picture Award.

Although Asha earned the title "Jubilee Girl" because of the continuous string of box office successes, such as Ziddi , Shikar , Aan Milo Sajna , she also hit a rare bump with Raj Khosla 's Chirag But she also earned her first Filmfare nomination as Best Actress for the film, and Khosla didn't blame her for the film's failure and in fact, cast her soon again and came up with a huge hit, Mera Gaon Mera Desh However, success brought controversy.

Once again, a female co-star claimed that Asha cut her role down in the film. Aruna Irani allegedly said that Asha reduced her role in Nasir Hussain's box-office smash Caravan , but facts back up Asha that she would never cut another performer's role, as Aruna had more songs than Asha, and she received a Filmfare nomination, while Asha wasn't nominated for the film at all. She played a deglamourised woman in a white sari pretending to be a widow whose vulnerable smile hides a painful past.

Asha was thrilled when she won the award, but Mumtaz , her box-office rival and former co-star from Mere Sanam and Bhai Bhai , complained that she was more deserving for her own performance in Tere Mere Sapne Asha was hitting the heights of fame and glory even though she was now 30, an age where heroines normally would pack it in. But her passion for dancing sent her abroad on a extended trip to do dance shows and as a result, turned down important film roles.

When she came back in , she found that a younger and bolder breed of heroines like Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman got those roles and now ruled the roost.

Asha focused on her distribution concern which she had started with Nasir Hussain when he directed her in the film Baharon Ke Sapne and would continue to do so for twenty more films. She also threw herself in her charity work, even having a Santa Cruz hospital named after her.

She lived with her parents in her beautiful seaside bungalow, whose innovative design drew a lot of attention. Asha's passion with dance continued and her performance of famous dance ballets like "Chauladevi" won her acclaim.

But the rest of her supporting roles as mother and bhabhi sister-in-law disenchanted her, with the exception of her strong performances in Hathyar and the Gujarati film Kulvadhu And her back problems forced her to give up doing dance shows.

But she found a new passion, directing television serials such as the hugely popular Kora Kogaz in the early 90's, which convinced her to give up acting permanently in She formed her production company "Akruti," through which she produced and directed television serials.

However, her acting accomplishments were not forgotten as she received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in After her mother's death, she sold her huge bungalow and moved into a smaller place to take care of her ailing father until he, too, passed away. She has never married and has not had any affairs with her many heroes, claiming that her reputation of being unapproachable probably intimidated men.

In her memoir "The Hit Girl" co-written by Khalid Mohamed she confirmed that her longtime director Nasir Hussain was the "only one and true love of my life. Their romantic relationship eventually ended after several decades. His wife Ayesha Khan died in , but Asha didn't try to marry the widowed Husain, since "he had become a shadow of his former self. When she was in her mid-thirties, she tried to adopt a child, but the doctors wouldn't let her, because he had birth defects.

Since marriage and motherhood didn't happen for her, Asha decided to devote all her time to her hospital and other humanitarian efforts. She also has set up a dance academy "Kara Bhavan," which has produced many skilled and talented dancers. For several years, she served as a judge on several talent shows on television. Today, Asha says that she is very flattered to know that she has fans all over the world.

Sign In. Edit Asha Parekh. Showing all 94 items. Top Hindi Film Heroine from to She has the distinction of being one of the few heroines who had the most box-office hits in a male-dominated film industry. A few years later, he offered her the chance to make her debut as a heroine in Goonj Uthi Shehnai , opposite Rajendra Kumar , but fired her claiming she wasn't star material. Bhatt hired actress Ameeta who cut her fee in half to secure the role to replace Asha in his film.

But Hussain didn't want to work with Ameeta again, complaining that she had never fit his concept of a heroine. He continued to work with Asha in other films, and while her star ascended, Ameeta's star dimmed and her career ended in Asha was teamed again with Rajendra Kumar in Gharana , which became a hit.

Kumar would forever refer to her as "Bhagyalakshmi" meaning "the ever-lucky-one" , because he saw her go from a flop heroine to a screen icon instantly. Never married, Asha said her reputation of being unapproachable probably made people hesitate in asking for her hand in marriage.

In the early s, she almost had an arranged marriage with an Indian man living in America, but he already had an American girlfriend whom he didn't want to give up, so Asha canceled their wedding plans. She later said that when she was young, whenever her mother showed her horoscope to astrologers, they always said the same thing and that is if she ever got married, it would not be a successful marriage.

Asha said she doesn't generally believe in predictions, but in this matter, however, it did grant her "some semblance of peace" in being single. Her boyfriend Nasir Hussain gave her a cameo in their eighth film together, Manzil Manzil as the hero's mother. In her memoir "The Hit Girl", she wrote that she "felt out of place in marginalised mummy ji characters" and that she had accepted these types of roles against her better judgment.

She never worked for Hussain after this film. Claims she didn't have affairs with her leading men but loved playing pranks on them. In her memoir, she theorized that the reason that her leading men never made a pass at her was because they were married or on the verge of getting married. She also said that they were afraid of invoking the wrath of her paramour, famous filmmaker Nasir Hussain.

As a classically trained dancer, she did stage shows from childhood to middle-age. Shammi Kapoor is her favorite leading man, and although they played a romantic pair in their four films together, he never made a pass at her in real life and always called her "bhatiji" niece , while she called him "chacha" uncle. In her eagerness to devote more time to do dance shows, she turned down film roles that made stars out of others.

Although, Shammi Kapoor was her favorite leading man, and she also liked working with his younger brother Shashi Kapoor , her dream was to work with the eldest Kapoor brother Raj Kapoor. But it was a half-realized dream because the film that she made with him, "Chor Mandali" never got released. Her favorite song that was picturized on her is "Jayiye aap kahaan jaayenge" from the film Mere Sanam , sung by Asha Bhosle.

From to , Asha was the first woman in history to be appointed as the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification "film censor board" for which she received no salary but plenty of controversy, because she requested that many films be censored. She gave up acting in to concentrate on her passion of directing television serials, of which she had done many.

She was the president of the Cine Artistes' Association from , and later said that it was time consuming, difficult, and ultimately a "thankless job. The Asha Parekh Hospital in Mumbai is named after her, because of her many humanitarian contributions. She is also a trustee for the Cine Artistes Welfare Fund of India, a trust floated by the National Film Development Corporation from the earnings of the film Gandhi for the welfare of cine artistes in need of assistance.

Began a highly successful career as a television director in the early s with a Gujarati serial "Jyoti. Was recognized as the first Gujarati to become a superstar in Hindi films, and at the height of her fame, she paid tribute to her Gujarati heritage by starring in her first Gujarati film, Akhand Saubhagyavati , which became a big hit and which earned her the Gujarat State Award for Best Actress.

Coincidentally, the title "Akhand Saubhagyarati" would be used for a Gujarati television serial that Asha produced in Asha claims that she starred in a "very sweet film" with Shashi Kapoor titled "Sweetheart," directed by Suraj Prakash and written by Brij Katyal, but it was never released. She also appeared in another unreleased film "Jaane Janna", again with Shashi Kapoor, in the 's, where she had a supporting role. She claims to be a bad cook and doesn't like salads, because they remind her of diets.

She said that although it is difficult to be a woman director in the television industry, she has no problem commanding respect from everyone on the set when she is shooting television serials. When Asha was shooting for films, she would always carry her food from home.

Asha has formed a group with five other actress friends to ease loneliness, so she, Sadhana , Nanda , Waheeda Rehman , Shammi , and Helen meet regularly at each other's homes to chat, have lunch, or watch a movie. Asha has urged other retired performers to do the same before it's too late as nothing is more therapeutic in life than companionship. In , she, Waheeda, and Helen went on a day Scandinavian cruise, but Nanda, Sadhana, and Shammi couldn't join them because of poor health.

She attended Nanda's funeral in , Sadhana's funeral in , and Shammi's funeral in She was chosen unanimously by the advisory board for her status as an industry icon, and for her career as actress, producer, director, and also having been the first female chairperson of the Indian film censor board.

Is a fan of actor Dilip Kumar and was disappointed when they didn't get to act together in a film, although they came close with the film Zabardast for her frequent director Nasir Husain. She was upset when the internet published false reports that claimed that the reason she didn't work with him was because she didn't like him.

Dilip and his wife Saira Banu told Asha that they never believed the false story and attended her 70th birthday celebration in Asha Parekh is an Indian actress, director, and producer.

She was one of the top actresses in Bollywood from the late s to s. Asha Parekh was born on 2 October Age 76 years; as in in Mumbai. Her Zodiac sign is Libra. Her mother enrolled her in Indian classical dance classes at an early age. There she learned from many teachers including Pandit Bansilal Bharati. Asha Parekh was born in a middle-class Gujarati Jain Family. Her mother Sudha, also known as Salma Parekh, was a Muslim. She later left acting for her schooling.

She also did a Kannada movie known as Sharavegada Saradara in