"Whatever you wish to call it - love or affection - the feeling my mother had towards him was strong and positive that lasted throughout her life," Rekha says in the book.
My mother constantly spoke about him, his likes and dislikes. "Though he never lived with us, we 'felt' his presence wherever we went for whatever we did. Narayani Ganesh writes that her father's relationship with Pushpavalli, his co-star, was "perhaps the first one outside marriage and from the way they remained friends and enquired about each other, they were comfortable with their past".Īccording to Rekha, "her mother had only good things to say about Gemini Ganesan and about Bobjima". It is a relationship of mature individuals and we all understand the peculiar circumstances under which we grew up," the author said in an interview. "But there is no demand from anyone, neither from us or her. However, in the later years, when our parents grew old and we siblings too were all grown up, we did touch base with her," Narayani Ganesh told IANS. As children, we did not have much interaction with her as she grew up with her mother and very soon left Chennai for Mumbai. "Rekha is a very private person and we respect her for that. And they lived with their mother and other siblings too," Narayani says in the book.īobjima, as Gemini Ganesan's first wife was known, and her daughters respected Rekha. When I was a little older, I learned that they were born to Pushpavalli and Appa (Gemini Ganesan). I thought her resemblance to Appa was startling. "Then there was Rekha's younger sister Radha, who was even prettier. How can that be? He was my father," she said. "She was pretty and her eyes were lined with mascara. Narayani Ganesh met Rekha that day for the first time. 'Come, I will take you to her,' she said holding my hand," Narayani Ganesh recalls.
"My two elder sisters had finished school and my younger sister was a baby. 'Why do you and your sister go home in different cars,' she asked. "A girl struck up conversation with me after school one day. Narayani Ganesh met her half-sister at the Presentation Convent in Chennai. Rekha, who later became a Bollywood super actress, is his daughter from this relationship. Ganesan's first break as an actor was in the 1948 production, "Chakradhari," with Pushpavalli with whom he started a relationship and a family later. He was born Ganapati Subramanian Sarma or Ramaswamy Ganesan Nov 17, 1920, in the princely state of Pudukkottai.Īccording to the writer, a senior journalist, Ganesan was born at the stroke of midnight and the heavens opened up at his birth. Ramachandran, who later became the chief minister of the state. Gemini Ganesan was one of the triumvirate of the Tamil movie industry along with Shivaji Ganesan and M.G. Gemini Ganesan, loved by his fans as "Kadhal Mannan" (the king of romance), led a multi-dimensional life, says the daughter in her book published as part of Roli's Family Pride series. Parallel families and eight children kept Ganesan on his toes as his career as the cherubic hero flourished for years.įor his children, however, the situation was a tad confusing for they had to reconcile with their extended families, says, Narayani Ganesh, his daughter, in "The Eternal Romantic: Gemini Ganesan", a tribute to her superstar father. He wooed women and they loved him in return.
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