Madhubala - Biography and Filmography

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Madhubala was born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi,on 14 February 1933 to parents of Pathan origin, Ataullah Khan and Begum Ayeesha. Her family relocated to Mumbai. Her father along with child  Madhubala, began to pay frequent visits to Bombay film studios to look for work. At the age of 9, Madhubala started acting in films and started helping her family financially.


Madhubala's first movie, Basant (1942), was a box-office success. In this film she acted as the daughter to a mother played by actress Mumtaz Shanti. As a child actress she acted in several movies. Actress Devika Rani advised her to assume the screen name 'Madhubala', Her first lead role, at the age of 14, was opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947) In this  film,  she was credited as Mumtaz and then onwards her screen name became 'Madhubala'. She achieved stardom and popularity in 1949 in the film,  Mahal.   The film was a big hit in 1949. Subsequently, she appeared in the box office hits Dulari (1949), Beqasoor (1950), Tarana (1951) and Badal (1951).



During the 1950s, Madhubala acted in various and various  genres of film being made at the time. Her 1950 film Hanste Aansoo was the first ever Hindi film to get an "A" – adults only – rating from the Central Board of Film Certification. She played the role of an uninhibited village beauty in Tarana (1951). She played the traditional Indian woman in Sangdil (1952). She showed her talent in a comic role as Anita, a heiress in Guru Dutt's  Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955). In 1956, she acted in costume dramas such as Shirin-Farhad and Raj-Hath.

                                          Howrah Bridge - 1958 Hit Film


In Howrah Bridge, she played the role of an Anglo-Indian Cabaret singer involved in Calcutta's Chinatown underworld. Among some more successful films, she played opposite Bharat Bhushan in Phagun; Dev Anand in Kala Pani; Kishore Kumar in Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi; and Bharat Bushan again in Barsaat Ki Raat (1960). Then in 1960, she appeared in the magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam.

Madhubala acted in as many as seventy films from 1947 to 1964 as lead actor.

Mughal-e-Azam was released on 5 August 1960, and became the biggest grossing film at that time, a record that was broken by "Sholay" in 1975 only.

In 1960 Madhubala was at the peak of her career and popularity with the release of Mughal-e-Azam and Barsaat Ki Raat. Subsequent to this her health deteriorated, but still films  like Jhumroo (1961), Half Ticket (1962) and Sharabi (1964) were completed and performed above average at the box-office.

Madhubala had ventricular septal defect (hole in her heart) which was detected while she was shooting for Bahut Din Huwe in Madras in 1954.  Due to this she suffered a lot for many years and she breathed her last on February 23, 1969, shortly after her 36th birthday.

Madhubala Filmography

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1952 - Sangdil - Dilip Kumar, Madhubala

1954 - Amar - Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Madhubala

1958 - Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi - Super Hit - Kishore Kumar, Madhubala
1958 - Howrah Bridge - Ashok Kumar, Madhubala
1958 - Kala Pani - Dev Anand, Madhubala
1958 - Phagun - Bharat Bhushan, Madhubala

1960 - Barsat Ki Raat - Bharat Bhushan, Madhubala

All Films of Madhubala

As a child artiste

1942 Basant Amiya Chakravarty
1944 Mumtaz Mahal Kidar Sharma
1945 Dhanna Bhagat Kidar Sharma
1946 Pujari Aspi
1946 Phoolwari Chaturbhuj Doshi
1946 Rajputani Aspi

As Heroine

1947 Neel Kamal Kidar Sharma
1947 Chittar Vijay Mohan Sinha
1947 Mere Bhagwan Mohan Sinha
1947 Khubsoorat Duniya Mohan Sinha
1947 Dil-Ki-Rani Mohan Sinha
1948 Parai Aag Najm Naqvi
1948 Lal Dupatta K.B.Lall
1948 Desh Sewa N.Vakil
1948 Amar Prem N.M.Kelkar
1949 Sipahiya Aspi
1949 Singaar J.K.Nanda
1949 Paras Anant Thakur
1949 Neki Aur Badi Kidar Sharma
1949 Mahal Kamal Amrohi
1949 Imtihaan Mohan Sinha
1949 Dulari A. R. Kardar
1949 Daulat Sohrab Modi
1949 Aparadhi Y.Pethkar
1950 Pardes M.Sadiq
1950 Nishana Wajahat Mirza
1950 Nirala Devendra Mukherjee
1950 Madhubala Prahlad Dutt
1950 Hanste Aansoo K.B.Lall
1950 Beqasoor K. Amarnath
1951 Tarana Ram Daryani
1951 Saiyan M. Sadiq
1951 Nazneen N.K.Ziree
1951 Nadaan Hira Singh
1951 Khazana M.Sadiq
1951 Badal Amiya Chakravarty
1951 Aaram D. D. Kashyap
1952 Saqi H. S. Rawail
1952 Deshabakthan Amiya Chakrabarty
1952 Sangdil R. C. Talwar
1953 Rail Ka Dibba P. N. Arora
1953 Armaan Fali Mistry
1954 Bahut Din Huye S.S.Vasan
1954 Amar Mehboob Khan
1955 Teerandaz H.S.Rawail
1955 Naqab Lekhraj Bhakri
1955 Naata D. N. Madhok
1955 Mr. & Mrs. '55 Guru Dutt
1956 Shirin Farhad Aspi Irani
1956 Raj Hath Sohrab Modi
1956 Dhake Ki Malmal J.K.Nanda
1957 Yahudi Ki Ladki S.D. Narang
1957 Gateway of India Om Prakash
1957 Ek Saal Devendra Goel
1958 Police Kali Das
1958 Phagun Bibhuti Mitra
1958 Kala Pani Raj Khosla
1958 Howrah Bridge Shakti Samanta
1958 Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi Satyen Bose
1958 Baghi Sipahi Bhagwandas Varma
1959 Kal Hamara Hai S.K.Prabhakar
1959 Insaan Jaag Utha Shakti Samanta
1959 Do Ustad (1959) Tara Harish
1960 Mehlon Ke Khwab Hyder
1960 Jaali Note Shakti Samanta
1960 Barsaat Ki Raat P.L.Santoshi
1960 Mughal-e-Azam K.Asif
1961 Passport Pramod Chakravorty
1961 Jhumroo Shankar Mukherji
1961 Boy Friend Naresh Saigal
1962 Half Ticket Kali Das
1964 Sharabi Raj Rishi