Raakhee (Hindi: राखी) (born August 15, 1947) popularly known as Raakhee Gulzar after her marriage with Gulzar (Sampooran Singh Kalra), is an Indian Bollywood actress. Her career spans from the late 1960s to 2003.
Raakhee originally from the state of West Bengal born as Rakhee Mazumdar.
While still a teenager, Raakhee had an arranged marriage to Bengali film director Ajay Biswas, which ended shortly and unhappily thereafter.
She also married film ...
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Raakhee (Hindi: राखी) (born August 15, 1947) popularly known as Raakhee Gulzar after her marriage with Gulzar (Sampooran Singh Kalra), is an Indian Bollywood actress. Her career spans from the late 1960s to 2003.
Raakhee originally from the state of West Bengal born as Rakhee Mazumdar.
While still a teenager, Raakhee had an arranged marriage to Bengali film director Ajay Biswas, which ended shortly and unhappily thereafter.
She also married film director, poet and lyricist, Gulzar. She has separated from Gulzar but never divorced him.
She has a daughter called Meghna (Bosky) who has directed a few films like Filhaal, Just Married and Dus Kahaniyaan.
Raakhee won rave reviews for her first Bengali film Badhu Baran 1967 in Calcutta after which she was offered the lead role in her first Hindi film, Rajshri Productions Jeevan Mrityu with Dharmendra in 1970.
She shot to fame in the 1971 film Sharmilee where she played a double role opposite Shashi Kapoor. Consequently she established...
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