Rekha and Navin Nischol set their foot into Bollywood , Mumbai’s ‘Mecca’ of Hindi films in 1970 with Hindi film “Sawan Bhadon”. They were fresh, promising and talented.
What emerged thereafter was a fascinating interwined odyssey where their paths kept crossing in films like Dharma, Barkha Bahar and Woh Main Nahin. Their each appearance displayed how both were evolving, maturing sharper, intensely more assured. And then, almost poetically, after decades, they shared screen space again in Aastha: In the Prison of Spring, no longer wide-eyed newcomers but seasoned performers carrying lived-in maturity. It’s the kind of old-school Bollywood arc we don’t get anymore; two careers beginning in sync, drifting through the same cinematic universe, and meeting again years later, leaving behind a trail of films that feel like memory fragments from a gentler, more romantic era of Hindi cinema.
News Edit KV Raman
