“The celebrated Hindi film actress has a cult of personality surrounding her that is unparalleled among other actresses and is often the subject of particularly fascinating urban legend.”

—  Rekha

Susan Dewey in [Dewey, Susan, Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India, http://books.google.com/books?id=-WamxY5bQtIC&pg=PA111, 2008, Syracuse University Press, 978-0-8156-3176-7, 111–]

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