They were signed together for B.R.Chopra’s rustic romance Naya Daur. She had fallen in love with the Thespian Dilip Kumar. The chiselled beauty who won not only Prince Salim’s heart but thousands of hearts in Mughal-e-Azam always had a problem with her heart.

She dragged on living, with no one but her husband Kishore Kumar to tend to her in her final days.īefore his death Kishore Kumar remembered her screams of pain as she died little by little.

The doctors gave her just a few years of live. She had been detected with a hole in the heart. Some of these comedies were done at a time when Madhubala knew she was dying. If she could do the timeless romance so accurately in Mehboob Khan’a Amar and K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam she was also the perfect comedienne in her films with Kishore Kumar, like Chalti Ka NaamGaadi, Half Ticket and Jhumroo. Though everyone stressed on her breathtaking beauty Madhubala never took her looks seriously.” Her looks were so overpowering that most people refused to perceive her as a brilliant actress with impeccable poignant and comic timing. The Nightingale recalls meeting the Venus socially. The actress and the singer remained associated throughout Madhubala’s life and career. Lata Mangeshkar’s haunting melody Ayega aanewala added immense allure to Madhubala’s screen persona. It was Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal in 1949 which gave Madhubala the image of an ethereal unattainable yet warm and gregarious beauty who could be diva and the devil at the same time. Her first hit as a grownup leading lady was Kidar Sharma’s Neel Kamal where both she and Raj Kapoor were introduced. Born in a conservative Muslim family Madhubala started her career in 1942 at the age of nine in Basant.

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