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Asha Parekh on Padmaavat: I wonder what the Karni Sena is shouting and raging about Hema Malini, Asha Parekh and Waheeda Rehman cannot stop raving about Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmaavat and say that this is a film that will be remembered forever. “The nation has gone mad,” said a furious Asha Parekh, the veteran actress who saw Padmaavat a few days back at a special screening organised by the director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. “Believe me, I haven’t been able to sleep. I am in a trance after watching the film,” said Asha, an unabashed fan of Bhansali’s work. “The work he extracts from his actors… I wish I could become 30 years younger to play a Bhansali heroine. But having said that, I would like to congratulate Deepika Padukone for her performance. “If today I had to make a film on Rani Padmavati, I would cast none other but Deepika,” she said. Asha watched the special screening on Thursday. “Her grace, when she dances or acts is simply commendable. R...

Salman Khan will formally release veteran actress Asha Parekh's autobiography, The Hit Girl, here on April 10. Bollywood superstar Salman Khan will formally release veteran actress Asha Parekh’s autobiography, “The Hit Girl”, here on April 10. Asha, known as the ‘hit girl’ of the 1960s for her nearly unbroken string of successful films, shares a very special history with Salman’s family. Salman’s father writer Salim Khan’s second wife Helen was a close friend of Asha Parekh and her girl gang of Waheeda Reman, Nanda, Sadhana and veteran character actress Shammi. The entire society of iconic sisterhood would often be seen at film previews organised by Salman’s father. “Now Sadhana and Nanda are gone. It’s just Helen, Waheeda, Shammi Aunty and me,” sighs Asha, not prone to succumb to defeatism or pessimism. It is this never-say-die spirit that the autobiography titled “The Hit Girl” brings forward. “This is something I wanted to do but hadn’t gotten down to doing...