Rekha & Reena Roy Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s account for 80% of everything they made together. The 1970s belonged to Jaani Dushman; the 1980s to Deedar-E-Yaar. Rekha acted in every film; Reena Roy acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in Jaani Dushman (1979), a multi-starrer horror film where they played two of the many women in a crowded cast. Neither was the lead — that was Sunil Dutt and Rekha's real-life husband at the time, Mukesh Khanna — so their pairing was almost accidental, a byproduct of the film's 'throw everyone in' casting strategy.
• In Prem Tapasya (1983), Rekha played a classical dancer and Reena Roy played a village girl. The film's director, B.R. Ishara, later said in an interview that Rekha's intense method approach made Reena Roy nervous on set, so Reena started improvising comic relief in their scenes together — and that unplanned push-and-pull became the film's most talked-about dynamic.
• During the shoot of Asha Jyoti (1984), Rekha and Reena Roy reportedly shared a vanity van because the production was low-budget. A crew member later recalled that they spent hours gossiping about co-stars and even exchanged saris — a rare moment of warmth between two actresses often pitted against each other by the industry.
• Reena Roy once told a film magazine in 1985: 'Rekha and I never competed. She was the queen of tragedy, I was the girl next door. In Prem Tapasya, we just played our lanes and let the director take the credit.'