Asha Parekh

Actress

1942-10-02

Indian actress, director, and producer who was among Hindi cinema's leading stars in the 1960s and 1970s. She later received major national honors including the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. She was born in 1942.

Quotes by Asha Parekh

Not many know but I did maximum films with Sunil Dutt, who was a thorough gentleman and enthusiastic about everything. He loved making tea for everybody on the sets and that is how I formed habit of having four to five cups of tea in a day.
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My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.
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Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.
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