Raveena Tandon:
A warm, bang-on pal… and the only heroine whom leading men were afraid to make a pass at.
"It was very simple. Right from the start I became my leading men's buddy."
"I
remember only one incident where one of my leading men made a pass at
me. I quickly shouted across the set, 'Hey, guys guess what he just
said to me?' that was the end of my hero's fantasies."
Rekha: Doesn't feel the heat, not the cold! That's right. Rekha doesn't use the air-conditioner. She believes head and cold are a state of the mind. She has anin-built temperature control. She's stunningly beautiful and incredibly outspoken. But
she's also very very lonely at heart. Although she doesn't show it,
this woman of substance truly misses a man's presence in her life. "Though
I love Dharamji very much it's my misfortune that he hasn't been with
me to watch our daughters grow up, and to me a company. So 'yes', I do
miss a man by my side," Hema once told in an unguarded moment. The dream gal of millions getting nightmares about ageing all alone.
Jaya Bachchan: Apart from maintaining the most perfect home in
Bollywood and looking after two of the biggest stars in Asia, Jaya is
also the most meticulous phone person in the film industry. No message goes unnoticed. No call goes unreturned. Also, thanks to the Bachchans' ever-efficient secretary Rosy Singh, no friend's birthday is missed. Urmila
recalls how pleasantly surprised she was when she received a call from
Jaya on her birthday. "I didn't know Abhishek's and my birthday were
separated by just a day. Jayaji pointed it out to me."