Conversations with Waheeda Rehman (24 page)

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Copyright © Nasreen Munni Kabir and Waheeda Rehman 2014

Front cover photograph courtesy of Kamat Foto Flash and Arun Dutt
Back cover photograph by Peter Chappell
Author photograph by Jon Page

Photographs from the collection of Waheeda Rehman unless otherwise indicated.

Frontispiece: a still from
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
(1962).
Photograph
courtesy: Arun Dutt: a still from
Chaudhvin Ka Chand
(1960). Photograph courtesy: Arun Dutt

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