Waheeda Rehman is an Indian actress who was born on 3rd February 1938 to a Tamil Deccani Muslim family in Chengalpet of present-day Tamil Nadu, India. s a child, she and her sisters were trained Bharatanatyam in Chennai. Rehman’s dream was to become a doctor, but due to her family’s circumstances emotionally and financially, alongside her mother’s illness, she abandoned her goal.