D O B August 15,1947
Languages Hindi
Place of Birth West Bengal
Known For Actor
Married Yes

Biography Raakhee born August is an Indian film actress who appeared in lead roles in the s and s both in Hindi cinema as well as in Bengali cinema and is most remembered for her role in Daag Reshma Aur Shera Sharmilee Bemisal Trishul Muqaddar Ka Sikandar Kabhie Kabhie and Ram Lakhan She is popularly known as Raakhee Gulzar after her marriage with lyricist-director Gulzar Sampooran Singh Kalra In her career spanning over four decades starting late s to she has won two Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards one Best Actress Award and a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the Bengali film Shubho Mahurat in Rakhee Gulzar was born in Ranaghat in the Nadia district of West Bengal on early hours of August it was here that she received her early education in a local girls' school Her father who had a flourishing jute business was uprooted from his native village in East Pakistan modern day Bangladesh during the partition and thereafter he settled in West Bengal While still a teenager Raakhee had an arranged marriage to Bengali film director Ajay Biswas which ended shortly and unhappily thereafter Raakhee won rave reviews for her first Bengali film Badhu More Baran in Calcutta at the age of after which she was offered the lead role in her first Hindi film Rajshri Productions Jeevan Mrityu with Dharmendra in the film went on to become a big hit including its song 'Jhilmil sitaron ka aangan hoga She shot to fame in the film Sharmilee where she played a double role opposite Shashi Kapoor br br Consequently she established herself as a popular and major Hindi heroine acting with the best co-stars and directors in several blockbuster films like Heera Panna Daag Blackmail and Tapasya To her great advantage she formed an extremely popular romantic screen team with the reigning king of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan They went on to star in no less than eight hit films Kabhie Kabhie Muqaddar Ka Sikander Kasme Vaade Trishul Kaala Patthar Jurmana Barsaat Ki Ek Raat and Bemisal With her main focus on good roles rather than star status Raakhee raised eyebrows when she did not hesitate to play Amithab's elder sister-in-law in Shaan and even his mother in the film Shakti when their romantic pairing was still at the height of its popularity She also played his dead mother in Lawaaris She also acted in other Bengali films such as Paroma to great acclaim Towards the mid s and s she played elderly mother or supporting roles in films such as Ram Lakhan Baazigar Khalnayak Karan Arjun Border Soldier and Baadshah Her last film was Shubho Mahurat in for which she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and she has since retired from the film industry In her second marriage she married film director poet and lyricist Gulzar The couple had a daughter Meghna Gulzar Bosky though when their daughter was only one year old they separated but never divorced Meghna Gulzar grew up with her father Gulzar and after completing her graduation in films from New York University went on to become a film director of films like Filhaal Just Married and Dus Kahaniyaan and also a biography of her father Gulzar in At one point Raakhee stayed in her bungalow Muktangan on Sarojini Road in Khar Mumbai later she sold off the property and moved to an apartment two buildings away though the new high rise is still called by the same name as she had wished These days she mostly stays in the Panvel farmhouse on Mumbai outskirts