Asha Parekh Biography, Awards, and Achievements, age, husband, kids, Dadasaheb Phalke award 2022

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest award in the film industry and every actor and actress aspires to win or receive an award in their life.

Asha Parekh will be honored with this award on 30 September 2022. Asha Parekh will be the seventh woman in the film industry to receive this award. Earlier, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Devika Rani, Durga Khote, Ruby Meyer, and Kanan Devi have been honored with this award.

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Birth and early life of Asha Parekh | Asha Parekh Biography

Asha Parekh was born on 2 October 1942 in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra. In the sixties, she did many blockbuster films in Indian cinema, in which Chirag, Kati Patang, and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan were very popular and super hit.

Asha Parekh was the most beautiful and best actress of her era. Her performance in the film was always the best, which was the reason why she was also the most expensive heroine of Bollywood at that time.

Asha Parekh, the famous actress of her era, is also known as Jubilee Girl due to her excellent acting. Asha Parekh was born in a middle-class Jain family in Gujarat who lived in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra, to earn their livelihood.

As a child, Asha Parekh had many dreams about her future life. Sometimes she wanted to become a doctor and sometimes an engineer. But it is said that a person’s future goes where his/her fate wants him/her.

Asha Parekh was very much associated with music and dance in her childhood in which she had a special interest. Seeing these interests, Asha Parekh’s mother decided that she would further enhance her talent.

Asha Parekh’s mother started sending dance institutes to learn dance. Initially, Asha Parekh enrolled in various dance institutes and gradually became proficient in classical music and dance.

During this time Asha Parekh Ji also came in contact with Pandit Bansilal Shastri who was a famous classical dance teacher of that era. After coming in contact with Pandit Bansilal, Asha Parekh became proficient in classical dance and started doing dance shows in the country and abroad.

Later on, she opened an institution named Kara Bhavan to teach dance. This organization is as active even today, through which Asha Parekh teaches dance.

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Asha Parekh Biography

Personal life of Asha Parekh-

Asha Parekh was a very lively and active actress in her career. Even today, she runs the dance academy with the same activism. Apart from all this, Asha Parekh is also not behind in social welfare. Asha Parekh is an actress dancer as well as a social executive. In view of her social welfare spirit and social work, a hospital in Mumbai has been named after her. The name of this hospital is Asha Parekh Hospital.

Asha Parekh never married though she had a good relationship with the film director of that era, Nasir Hussain. Asha Parekh was left completely alone after the death of her parents, after which she became very mentally disturbed.

But during this trouble, Nasir Hussain became a good friend and supported her, and helped her to reach big heights. Nasir Hussain slowly raised Asha Parekh from mental stress through his friendship philosophy and guidance. After some time Asha Parekh and Nasir Hussain also came into a relationship but Nasir Hussain was married, and Asha Parekh did not talk about marriage because she did not want to destroy their house.

However, when Nasir Hussain’s wife died, he also fell completely alone, during which Asha Parekh wanted to talk to him, but in the year 2002, Nasir Hussain Ji passed away from this world.

Asha Parekh also wanted to adopt a child but due to being medically ill, the doctors refused to adopt the child.

Asha Parekh considered Shammi Kapoor as her favorite actor with whom she had her first hit film under the direction of director Nasir Hussain. She used to call Shammi Kapoor Chacha and his wife Chachi, with whom she had a very special relationship.

Asha Parekh’s career and film journey

Asha Parekh was very expert in acting since childhood, her mother knew that her daughter had all the qualities to become an actress, and her mother supported her to become an actress from the beginning.
 

Asha Parekh started acting in the film world as an actress only at the age of 16.

In 1952, at the age of just 10, she made her acting debut as a child artist in the film Assam.
    

Asha Parekh used to do stage dance shows in the days to come, during which she met the Bollywood film director of that era, Vimal Rai.
    

Vimal Rai was very impressed by Asha Parekh’s dancing skills and asked Asha Parekh to work in the film. Since then the film career of Asha Parekh started.
    

In 1954, Asha Parekh appeared in Vimal Rai’s film Baap Beti, but during her childhood, there was the only disappointment in the film world, after which she took her mind off the film world for some time and started writing studies.    

But once again at the age of 16, Asha Parekh started finding a character for herself in the world of cinema. During this, she met Vijay Bhatt, the director of the film Goonj Uthi Shehnai. Asha Parekh also auditioned for this film but later Vijay Bhatt rejected her by showing her the way out. But still, Asha Parekh did not give up and kept trying.
    

Her successful career started with the 1959 film Dil De Ke Dekho in which she appeared as an actress opposite Shammi Kapoor. It was her first hit film which was a huge success at the box office.
    

The film was produced by Subodh Mukherjee and directed by Nasir Hussain. It was thanks to Nasir Hussain that Asha Parekh got a chance to work in this film. The film earned a lot at the box office and made Asha Parekh a superstar overnight.
    

Even after this, Asha Parekh did hit films with director Nasir Hussain, who earned a lot at the box office. During this, Asha Parekh became very close to Nasir Hussain and their relationship went beyond friendship. However, Asha Parekh never proposed marriage to Nasir Hussain as she knew that Nasir Hussain was married.
    

During her film career, Asha Parekh acted in a total of 90 films and most of these films were huge hits. Asha Parekh appeared in films like ‘Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai’, ‘Gharana’, 1961’s ‘Chhaya’, ‘Meri Surat Teri Aankhen’, and ‘Bharosa’.
    

Apart from this, she appeared in the 1963 films ‘Bin Badal Barsaat’, ‘Baharon Ke Sapne’, and the 1967 film ‘Upkar’.
    

In the year 1959, she worked in the film Aaya Sawan Jhoom ke, which was quite late, apart from this she also worked in films like Chirag and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki, etc. Her performance in the 1978 film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki was superb.
    

In the sixties, Asha Parekh made a flurry of films in the cinema world and it was considered to be her own.
    

Later in the year 1994, she was made the chairman of the Indian Cinema Censor Board. This was the first time a woman was made the chairman of the Indian Cinema Censor Board.

Asha Parekh’s achievements and honors

Asha Parekh has received many accolades for her best acting in the world of cinema, along with she has also achieved many achievements in dance and acting.

• In 1992, Asha Parekh was awarded the Padma Shri award for her outstanding performance in films.
      
• The year 2002 was also very memorable for her as this year she received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

      

• In 1971, she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Kati Patang.

      

• Later on, she was also honored with the Living Legend Award by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce.

      

• Apart from this, the Film Federation of India also honored him with the Golden Jubilee Award. Not only this, but Hindustan Times also gave him the Stylish Icon Award.