When Rekha’s father Gemini Ganesan recalled she didn’t want younger sister to join films: ‘I am suffering, why should she go through same hell?’

However, Gemini refrained from interfering successful his children’s idiosyncratic choices, explaining that helium believed successful letting them grip their affairs independently. He cited Rekha’s rumoured narration with Amitabh Bachchan arsenic an illustration of thing helium chose not to intervene in, contempt nationalist scrutiny. “People archer maine that Rekha has messed up her idiosyncratic beingness by getting progressive with Amitabh. But I ne'er sermon Rekha’s idiosyncratic matter with her. Why should I?,” helium had said.

Gemini besides reflected connected his ain relationships, mentioning however his marriages to Rekha’s mother, Pushpavalli, and histrion Savitri, sparked ungraded successful the manufacture astatine the clip He said, “When I joined Savitri and Pushpavalli respective years ago, eyebrows were raised, and it became the biggest ungraded successful the industry. And yet contiguous nary 1 is aghast erstwhile they perceive astir Dilip Kumar marrying Asma oregon Dharmendra marrying Hema. So, successful 1 mode I deliberation I person been the inclination setter for extramarital involvements successful the industry.”

Earlier, successful an interrogation with Simi Garewal, Rekha shared that she ne'er genuinely knew her father, who near her mother, Pushpavalli, erstwhile Rekha was conscionable a baby. “I was a babe erstwhile helium moved retired of our lives. I don’t adjacent retrieve him being astatine home,” she said. She besides recalled attending the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic her step-siblings and seeing her begetter driblet them off, yet helium ne'er seemed to announcement her. “Looking back, possibly I did miss him. But erstwhile you haven’t tasted something, you don’t cognize what it means. I didn’t cognize what the connection ‘father’ meant,” she had said.