वहीदा रहमान : 14 मई, 1936 --- Sanjog Walter

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वहीदा रहमान (जन्म: 14 मई, 1936 ) हिन्दी फ़िल्मों की एक अभिनेत्री हैं। 

Sanjog Walter

May 14, 2012 ·

वहीदा रहमान भारतीय सिनेमा जगत में ऐसी कम ही कलाकार हैं जो हर रोल में फिट बैठ जाते है. चाहे वह 18 या 19 साल की किसी जवां लड़की का रोल हो या बाद में मां का रोल सभी में उनका अभिनय जबरदस्त ही रहता है. बॉलिवुड की यह सबसे बड़ी खासियत भी है कि यहां प्रतिभा की कमी नहीं है और ऐसी ही एक प्रतिभा हैं वहीदा रहमान . प्यासा, सीआईडी , कागज के फूल जैसी फिल्मों में अभिनय करने वाली वहीदा रहमान आज के दशक में भी दिल्ली 6 जैसी फिल्मों में अपनी उपस्थिति दर्शाने में सफल रही हैं. वहीदा रहमान का जन्म 14 मई, 1936 को तमिलनाडु के एक परंपरावादी मुस्लिम परिवार में हुआ था. बचपन से वहीदा डॉक्टर बनना चाहती थी लेकिन उनका भाग्य उन्हें सिनेमा में खींच लाया. मुंबई में आने के बाद वहीदा रहमान और उनकी बहन ने भरतनाट्यम की शिक्षा ली.फिल्मी कैरियर की शुरुआत उन्होंने 1955 में दो तेलुगू फिल्मों के द्वारा की और दोनों ही हिट रहीं जिसका फायदा उन्हें गुरुदत्त की फिल्म “सीआईडी” में खलनायिका के रोल के रुप में मिला. फिल्म में वहीदा रहमान के अभिनय की सबने सराहना की और गुरुदत्त तो उनके कायल ही हो गए.इसके बाद गुरुदत्त ने वहीदा के साथ कई फिल्में की जिनमें प्यासा सबसे चर्चित फिल्म रही है. फिल्म प्यासा से ही गुरु दत्त और वहीदा का विफल प्रेम प्रसंग आरंभ हुआ. गुरुदत्त एवं वहीदा रहमान अभिनीत फिल्म कागज के फूल (1959) की असफल प्रेम कथा उन दोनों की स्वयं के जीवन पर आधारित थी. दोनों ही कलाकारों ने फिल्म चौदहवीं का चाँद (1960) और साहिब बीबी और गुलाम (1962) में साथ साथ काम किया.हालांकि कुछ समय बाद गुरुदत्त और वहीदा अलग हो गए. 10 अक्टूबर, 1964 को गुरुदत्त ने कथित रुप से आत्महत्या कर ली थी जिसके बाद वहीदा अकेली हो गई, लेकिन फिर भी उन्होंने कैरियर से मुंह नहीं मोड़ा और 1965 में गाइड के लिए उन्हें फिल्मफेयर अवार्ड का पुरस्कार मिला. 1968 में आई नीलकमल के बाद एक बार फिर से वहीदा रहमान का कैरियर आसमान की बुलंदियों पर चढ़ने लगा. साल 1974 में उनके साथ काम करने वाले अभिनेता कमलजीत ने उनसे शादी का प्रस्ताव रखा जिसे वहीदा रहामान ने सहर्ष स्वीकार कर लिया और शादी के बंधन में बंध गई. साल 1991 में फिल्म लम्हे के बाद उन्होंने फिल्मों में काम करने से ब्रेक ले लिया और घर बसाने की तरफ ज्यादा ध्यान देने लगी.साल 2000 उनके जिंदगी में एक और धक्के के रुप में आया जब उनके पति की आकस्मिक मृत्यु हो गई पर वहीदा ने यहां भी अपनी इच्छाशक्ति का प्रदर्शन करते हुए दुबारा फिल्मों में काम करने का निर्णय लिया और वाटर, रंग दे बसंती और दिल्ली 6 जैसी फिल्मों में काम किया.अभिनय के क्षेत्र में बेमिसाल प्रदर्शन के लिए उन्हें साल 1972 में पद्म श्री और साल 2011 में पद्म विभूषण पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया गया. इसके साथ वहीदा रहमान को दो बार बेस्ट एक्ट्रेस का फिल्मफेयर अवार्ड भी मिल चुका है.आज भी वहीदा रहमान फिल्मों में सक्रिय हैं और भारतीय सिनेमा के स्वर्ण काल की याद दिलाती हैं.

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जन कलाकार बलराज साहनी ------ Sanjog Walter via Swapnil Sansar

जन्मतिथि 01 मई 1913 :

Agency,Mumbai.Balraj Sahni,born 1 May 1913 Yudhishthir Sahni, was a noted film and stage actor, who is best known for Dharti Ke Lal (1946), Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Kabuliwala (1961) and Garam Hawa (1973).He came from Bhera, now in Punjab, Pakistan, and was the brother of Bhisham Sahni, noted Hindi writer, playwright, and actor.
Balraj Sahni went from his native Rawalpindi to study at Lahore University. He completed his Master’s degree in English Literature from Lahore and then went back to Rawalpindi and joined his family business. He also held a Bachelor’s degree in Hindi, followed by a Masters in English from Punjab University. Soon after, he married Damayanti Sahni.In the late 1930s, Sahni and his wife left Rawalpindi to join Tagore’s Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan in Bengal as an English and Hindi teacher. It is here that their son, Parikshit Sahni was born, when his wife Damayanti was doing her Bachelor’s degree. He also went to work with Mahatma Gandhi for a year in 1938. The next year, Sahni, with Gandhi’s blessings, went to England to join the BBC-London’s Hindi service as a radio announcer. He returned to India in 1943.Balraj Sahni was always interested in acting, and started his acting career with the plays of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA).He started his film career in Mumbai with the film Insaaf (1946), followed by Dharti Ke Lal directed by KA Abbas in 1946, Door Chalein in 1946, and other films. But it was in 1953, with Bimal Roy’s classic Do Bigha Zameen, that his true forte as an actor was first recognised. The film won the international prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Balraj Sahni’s wife Damayanti died at a young age in 1947, who was the heroine of his film, Gudiya (1947) and two years later he married his first cousin, Santosh Chandhok, later known as an author and television writer.Balraj Sahni’s acting was very well liked and appreciated in all his films. He acted opposite top heroines like Padmini, Nutan, Meena Kumari, Vyjayantimala, and Nargis in films like Bindya (1960)Seema (1955), Sone Ki Chidiya (1958), Sutta Bazaar (1959), Bhabhi Ki Chudiyaan (1961), Kathputli (1957), Lajwanti (1958) & Ghar Sansaar (1958). However, he is perhaps best remembered by the current generation for the picturisation of the legendary song Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen from the movie Waqt (1965) on him. Sahni appeared opposite Achala Sachdev in the number.He also starred in the classic Punjabi film Nanak Dukhiya Sub Sansar (1970) as well as the critically acclaimed Satluj de kande.His performance as the angst ridden but stoical Muslim man who refuses to go to Pakistan during partition in his last film Garam Hawa has often been called his best performance by critics. Balraj, however, could not see the completed film himself to rate his own performance, as he died just the next day after he finished dubbing for Garm Hava. The last lines he recorded for the film, and hence his last recorded lines are, Hindi:- “Insaan Kab Tak Akela Jee Sakta Hai?” which can be translated in English as:- “How long can a man live alone?”Balraj Sahni was a gifted writer; his early writings were in English, though later in life he switched to Punjabi, and became a writer of repute in Punjabi literature. In 1960, after a visit to Pakistan, he wrote Mera Pakistani Safar. His book Mera Rusi Safarnama, which he had written after a tour of the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1969, earned him the ‘Soviet Land Nehru Award’. He contributed many poems and short stories in magazines and also penned his autobiography, Meri Filmi Aatmakatha. Sahni was an extremely well-read and politically conscious person.He and P K Vasudevan Nair worked on the idea of All India Youth Federation with firebrand Delhi communist, Comrade Guru Radha Kishan to organise the first national conference of AIYF in Delhi. Their wholehearted efforts were visible as more than 250 delegates and observers representing several youth organisations of various states of India attended this session. Balraj Sahni was elected as the first president of All India Youth Federation, the youth wing of Communist Party of India. The organisation was a huge success and strong presence of the organisation was noticed by other political groups and the senior communist leaders everywhere.Balraj Sahni also dabbled in screenwriting; he wrote the 1951 movie Baazi which starred Dev Anand and was directed by Guru Dutt. He was also a recipient of the Padma Shri Award (1969). Balraj Sahni also wrote in Punjabi and contributed to the Punjabi magazine Preetlari. Very few people know about his love for the books, In 1950s he was first to inaugurate the Library and study centre for underprivileged class in Delhi.Balraj Sahni was undoubtedly one of the greatest actors ever to come on the Indian screen: a highly natural actor who reminded the audience of the actors like Motilal because of his simple persona and a sophisticated style of acting. He was looked up to as a role model as he was never involved in any scandal. His acting in Do Bigha Zameen and Garam Hawa were the highlights of his career. He believed in what is known as Neo-Realistic cinema.Balraj’s brother Bhisham Sahni was a well-known writer who wrote the book Tamas. His son Parikshit Sahni is also an actor. Balraj Sahni died on 13 April 1973, of a massive cardiac arrest, less than a month before his 60th birthday. He had been depressed for some time by the untimely death of his young daughter, Shabnam. Noted writer and editor of Hindi weekly Dharmyug Satyakam Vidyalankar was married to Balraj’s sister.’Punjabi Kala Kender’, founded in 1973 at Mumbai by Balraj Sahni, gives away the annual Balraj Sahni Award’, and also the ‘All India Artists’ Association’.