THE MAGIC OF MADHUBALA:

THE MAGIC OF MADHUBALA:

While filming for Bahut Din Huwe, Madhubala discovered she had Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) or a hole in her heart. She also suffered from pulmonary pressure in her lungs and had to be given oxygen several hours a day.

She was eventually confined to her bed for nine years and attempts at acting or directing failed miserably. She eventually passed away at the tender age of 36. Madhubala was buried along with her personal diary at the Santa Cruz Muslim cemetery.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, January 18th, 2015

THE MAGIC OF MADHUBALA:

Madhubala was born in Delhi, India on February 14, 1933 as Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi. Her father, Attaullah Khan was a Yousafzai Pasthun from the old Peshawar valley, which included the present-day Mardan and Swabi region as well.

He relocated the family to Bombay and then Delhi after he lost his job at the Imperial Tobacco Company in Peshawar. As a side note, Swabi still produces the best tobacco exported all over the world.

The family struggled in Delhi in its initial years before Mumtaz Jehan got a role as a child star in the film Basant which was a big success. She was the sole earning member in her large family which included her parents and her four other sisters.

Mumtaz Jehan was only 14 years old when she played her first lead role against Raj Kapoor (who was 22 at the time) in Neel Kamal in 1947. She adopted her popular name Madhubala (made of honey) after the film on the advice of a friend. Madhu played the lead role in around 66 films against all of the major male leading actors before doing her career-defining role as Anarkali in Mughal-i-Azam.

THE MAGIC OF MADHUBALA:

I am madly fan of madhu bala 

Looking good , Nice features, Style was amazing,

Arshi Bano posted:

I am madly fan of madhu bala 

Looking good , Nice features, Style was amazing,

 

Arshi, I do agree with you, that in her heydays she was the darling of the Indian Screen, too bad she had to leave this world at a very young age, indeed she was a beautiful woman.

Thanks for liking this one.

No doubt she is most beautiful Bollywood actress so far