Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress speaks about her early days in Bollywood, in Andhra Pradesh

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Indian actress Waheeda Rehman speaks about her early days in Bollywood, she says, "My first Telugu film was a hit and there was a folk song in the film to which I danced was became so popular, Those days we were traveling through the Andhra Pradesh. Guru Dutt came to Andhra and he needs some fresh faces for his film when he got to know about me he said that Waheeda Rehman seems to be a Muslim name does she speak Urdu well, then the exhibitor replied yes whenever she comes on stage she speaks Urdu then Guru Dutt wants to meet me. We met first in a distributor's office. He asked me that do you want to work in Hindi films I said yes. After three months a distributor of Guru Dutt came to meet me and said that Guru Dutt wants you to work in his film in Mumbai. I was very happy at that time but