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The great filmmaker Satyajit Ray offered her a role in Kanchenjungha after seeing a photograph of her, but the busy actress couldn't find the dates to shoot his film. She expressed her deep regret to him, and he complimented her for being honest with him. The role went to newcomer Alakananda Ray. Starred in the shelved film Pyaar Bhari Waadiyan The film was to be directed by Nazir Herekar. Nazir was going to launch his daughter Masooma Herekar in the film. It was a double suicide due to slashing of the wrist, at a hotel.
Masooma did not want to become a actress and wanted to settle down. Nazir Herekar opposed the idea and wanted her to become a actress. She turned down the role in The Householder , and it went to Leela Naidu. She regretted not working for the Academy Award nominated team of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory , but she felt that the audiences were so used to seeing her dance in films, that they would have difficulty seeing her in an offbeat film with no songs or dances.
Asif offered her the role in Sasta Khoon Mehenga Paani but took offense to Asha's mother Sudha Parekh who was negotiating all her offers. Asha and Sudha tried to calm him down, but he cast Saira Banu instead. However, the film ran into obstacles and it was never completed. She accepted the role of the heroine opposite a then-unknown Amitabh Bachchan , but an unfortunate misunderstanding happened. The producer told Amitabh that Asha didn't want to work with a newcomer, even though that wasn't the truth.
The film was shot for a few days with another heroine, but it was never completed or released. Asha felt bad that she never corrected the misunderstanding. A few years later, Asha played Amitabh's bhabhi sister-in-law in Kaalia Although, Gujarati is her native language, she regretted that she was never able to reach absolute fluency, since she was born and raised in Bombay, where Hindi is the primary language.
She credited her mother Sudha Parekh for helping her rehearse with the dialogue. Her first film as a heroine Dil Deke Dekho premiered on her 17th birthday.
It became a huge hit, and she became a star. She later said that she couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift. She was devastated and had to be sedated when her mother Sudha Parekh died from cancer.
Her mother's last words to her were "Take care of your father". Her father urged her to get back to living and working again. She did that and she also took care of her father, until a few years later, when he died. She fell into a deep depression, until she went to visit a psychiatrist who helped her come out of it. She comes from a family that was involved in films behind-the-scenes.
Her paternal grandfather Motilal Mohandas Parekh financed the film "Parasmani", and one of her granduncles Keshubhai financed the mythological film "Jai Ganesh". Her mother Sudha Parekh is credited as her costume designer for several of Asha's films. She turned down the opportunity to direct the film Bhairavi , because it didn't appeal to her, and the job went to Aruna Raje. She was hurt when a prominent politician publicly claimed that she lobbied hard for the Padma Bhushan award by climbing 12 floors to his place, when the elevator was out of order.
She handled herself with a quiet dignity and disputed his claim. She said that the elevator wasn't out of order, and that as a seventy-two-year-old woman, she would have landed in the hospital if she climbed all those stairs.
She said it was a short, abrupt meeting, where he didn't even offer her a glass of water, and that she certainly didn't plead with him to recommend her for the award. She liked working with her leading man Guru Dutt in Bharosa and was impressed with his directing style when he stepped in for the film's director who was out sick.
Dutt liked Asha too and offered her a role in a film, but when Asha's mother Sudha Parekh was hesitant since the role had a vampish shade, generally avoided by heroines.
She tried to negotiate a huge salary, but Dutt was outraged and told them that he was going to cast Rajshree instead, who also turned it down, and the film was never made. He died just a year after the tense meeting with Asha and her mother. Nearly a decade later, Asha turned down another vamp role in Dastaan , which went to Bindu , even though it meant she missed out on an opportunity to work with Dilip Kumar , whom she adored.
Only child with no siblings. In her memoir, Asha said that her mother Sudha Parekh had suffered two miscarriages, and that's how she ended up being an only child. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre wanted to sign her to a three-picture deal, but she was already committed to starring in Goonj Uthi Shehnai , so she regrettably turned it down.
It became even more regrettable, since she was fired from Goonj Uthi Shehnai, so it ended up being a double loss. However, Sasadhar Mukherjee soon also offered her a three-picture deal, the first one Dil Deke Dekho made her a big star. After she finished a second film for him titled Hum Hindustani , she was all ready to act in the third film with Joy Mukherjee , but it was never made.
She liked working with famous filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee on Chhaya , who treated her like a student, since she never attended college. She would forever credit him for changing her reading habits.
He liked her too and talked to her about casting her in another film, but it never took off. She suspected that the comedian Rajendranath Malhotra might have had a crush on her. They worked on several films together, including their debut film Dil Deke Dekho In some of these films, the comedic scenes required her to beat him repeatedly, and he didn't complain about the aches and pains.
If anything, he sent her a big, valentine-shaped bouquet of flowers with a card saying "Mujhe Dil Deke Dekhoji". When she asked him what he meant, he blushed and said, "Nothing, nothing. Just a joke. Don't take me seriously". In her memoir "The Hit Girl", she finally wrote about her romance with her frequent director Nasir Hussain that lasted decades.
She couldn't marry him, since he was already married to assistant choreographer Ayesha Khan , with whom he had two children. She wrote that Ayesha was always kind to her, despite everything, even giving her a gift of gold bangles. Asha's mother Sudha Parekh worked on some of Asha's films as her costume designer. Sudha was in denial about her daughter's relationship, but she still stopped working for Nasir after "Teesri Manzil".
Nasir worked with both Asha and Ayesha together in Baharon Ke Sapne , but that was the last time all three worked together. After that, he worked with them separately. Asha wrote that she ended the romance because she didn't want to be the other woman.
She also didn't want to be the second wife, since it would have wrecked havoc on both their families. Her only double role was in Rakhi Aur Hathkadi where she played mother and daughter. Dutta, Directed by Paul. While Asha has always credited her mother for making her the independent person she is today, she also shared how her mother tried to get her married at a point in her life but she refused to tie the knot.
At a time when people chose to be mum about mental health issues, Asha had openly spoken about suffering from depression and having suicidal thoughts after she lost her parents. I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything. It made me depressed. I was feeling miserable and had suicidal thoughts.
It was a struggle, I had to take aid of doctors to get out of it.
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