Rehana Sultan

Rehana Sultan is an Indian actress best known for her debut role in the acclaimed 1970 film Dastak which won her the National Film Award for Best Actress.

A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune,

She said "The sex in my films was not forced, but part of the narrative. Today, I feel these scenes are used for commercial reasons. All I can say is Babuda was ahead of his times."

Biography Rehana Sultan was born on 19 November 1950 and raised in Allahabad in a Baháʼí family, she graduated from high school in 1967, and was selected in the same year to study acting at FTII. After she graduated with a sexy role in Vishwanath Ayengar's diploma film Shadi Ki Pehli Salgirah (1967), she got her break in a feature film in Rajinder Singh Bedi's Dastak (1970), making her the first actress from the Institute to land a lead role in the film industry.

In a 2012 interview to The Telegraph (Calcutta) newspaper, she tried to remove the common public confusion that she was a Muslim. Rehana Sultan, obviously, is a Muslim-sounding name. So she was asked a question by the reporter.

Question: "But for a conservative Muslim girl to do those bold shots in Chetna and Dastak?

Her answer was:

"First of all, the belief that I'm Muslim is wrong. I'm a Bahai. My husband (B. R. Ishara) is a pucca Brahmin".

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Tanhai Savera Man Jaiye Suman Haar Jeet Kamal

Prem Parbat Dil Ki Rahen Bada Kabutar Rita

Albeli Khote Sikkay Rani / Paro Ek Ladki Badnaam Si

Yeh Sach Hai Zindagi Aur Toofan Tara 1976 Sajjo Rani

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Nawab Sahib Assignment Bombay

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Sister Agent 009 1981 Jwala Daku Rambhabai 1982 Bedard

Putt Jattan De Jagat Singh's wife Punjabi Bandhan Kuchchey Dhaagon Ka Advocate Thakur 1984 Hum Rahe Na Hum Kalyani Sharma Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress 1985 Aakhri Chaal TV film 1992 Sooraj Mukhi Sandhya 2013 Inkaar Maya's mother