00:00In the cautious cinema of the 1970s, there was an actress who shocked everyone with her choices.
00:05While other heroines fluttered eyelashes and sang love songs, she chose roles no one dared to take.
00:11She played a role of a prostitute in Chetana. She took on the subject of marital intimacy
00:16in another movie called Dastak. She wasn't coy, she was fearless. And the audience applauded.
00:23But Bollywood, Bollywood punished her. Producers began to whisper that she was too bold,
00:30casting director stopped calling. Her daring became her curse.
00:34The actress I'm talking about was Rehana Sultan and after that, she faded into silence.
00:40The National Award winner, who once made history with her bravery, lived most of her later life forgotten.
00:47Remembered only as the woman who was too bold for her own time.
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