रेखा

A 1943 Hindi social drama produced by Ramnik Productions and directed by Mahendra Thakore, with the established star Leela Chitnis in a leading role alongside Harish. Like most mid-war Bombay productions from the smaller studios, Rekha was a modestly budgeted melodrama whose principal draw was its songs — nine numbers composed by Damodar Sharma to verse by a team of four lyricists.

Damodar Sharma scored nine songs for Rekha. The verses came from a team of four lyricists — Qamar Jalalabadi, M. S. Sehrai, Swami Ramanand Saraswati and Nazim Panipati — a pooled credit typical of the smaller studios, where a song was often farmed out to whichever writer was available. Surviving sources list the song titles but do not attach individual singers to each number.

Rekha belongs to the dense body of 'B-grade' studio musicals that filled Bombay's wartime release calendar — films now remembered chiefly as a record of working composers like Damodar Sharma, who built careers at smaller houses such as Ramnik, Paramount and Mohan Pictures rather than the prestige studios. Its surviving value is documentary: it preserves a slice of 1943's prolific song output and a credit line for Leela Chitnis between her better-known Bombay Talkies years.