Bollywood actor Rekha celebrates her 57th birthday on Monday. Born October 10, 1954, Bhanurekha Ganesan started her career with screen-name Rekha in 1966 as a child actor in the Telugu movie Rangula Ratnam, though her film debut as a lead happened four years later with Hindi movie Sawan Bhadon (1970). Rekha has acted in over 180 films in a career that has spanned over 40 years. Throughout her career, she has often played strong female characters and, apart from mainstream cinema, appeared in arthouse films, known then as parallel cinema. Excerpts from her interview that appeared in AsiaSpa India magazine recently Click here to read more