Madhubala

Date of Birth
14 February 1933, Delhi, India
Date of Death
23 February 1969, Bombay, India (hole in the heart)
Birth Name
Begum Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi

Nickname
Venus Queen

Mini Biography
Arguably the most beautiful artiste to ever grace the Indian screen, Madhubala rose from humble beginnings to become the most captivating star India has ever produced. Madhubala was born Mumtaz Jehan Begum on Valentine's Day 1933, in a poor, conservative family of Pathan Muslims in Delhi, a part of a prolific brood of sisters, and entered the world of films at the tender age of eight. After about five years of playing child roles, Madhubala got her first break in a lead role in Neel Kamal (1947), produced anddirected by her mentor, veteran filmmaker Kidar Sharma. At the age of 14, she played a romantic lead against another fledgling star, Raj Kapoor, and Madhubala had finally arrived on the Indian screen. Over the next two years she had blossomed into a truly rapturous beauty (which earned her the sobriquet of the Venus Of the Indian Screen) and with the movie Mahal (1949), literally overnight, she was a superstar.

It has been often said that her beauty overshadowed her acting talents, which to an extent is true; however this was more due to poor judgement than lack of talent. Being encumbered by a large family to support, and forever living under the domination of an imperious father who, she made several poor choices in movies which seriously undermined her credibility as a serious performer, to the extent of being labelled "box-office poison". However, her more or less dismal repertoire in the 50s was marked by spots of true brilliance - movies like Tarana (1951), Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955) and of course her swansong Mughal-E-Azam (1960) showcased her remarkable talents as a serious artiste across several genres and revealed what this ethereal beauty was truly capable of.

Sadly, she was plagued by a persistent heart disease that confined her to a bed for almost nine torturous years, and eventually claimed her life on February 23 1969, nine days after her 36th birthday. In this short life, she had made over 70 movies, and to this day remains one of the most enduring legends of Indian cinema.

Madhubala And Raj Kapoor Bring the Screen of two Star show how to make love with they Eyes In the Both First Movie Neel Kamal (1947).
Raj Kapoor and Madhubala Play Three time together in
Neel Kamal (1947)
Dil-Ki-Rani (Sweet-Heart)
Do Ustad



Madhubala had many successful films following Mahal. With pressure to secure herself and her family financially, she acted in as many as 24 films in the first four years of her adult career. Her co-stars at the time were the most poular of the period: Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Rehman, Pradeep Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt and Dev Anand. Madhubala ... appeared along side many notable leading ladies of the time including Kamini Kaushal, Suraiya, Geeta Bali, Shyama and Nimmi. The directors she worked with were amongst the most prolific and respected: Mehboob Khan, Guru Dutt, Kamal Amrohi and K. Asif . She also ventured into production and made the film Naata (1955) which she also acted in. Source:
Born in abject poverty, the 5th of 11 children, Madhubala began life in the film world as a child star, Baby Mumtaz, in films like Bombay Talkies Basant (1942). It was Kidar Sharma who gave her a break as heroine opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947).
Source:
upperstall.com In 1966, with a slight improvment in her health, Madhubala tried working again opposite Raj Kapoor in the film Chalack. Film media heralded her "comeback" with much fanfare and publicity. Stills from this time showed a still beautiful but pale and wan-looking Madhubala. However, she collapsed on the first day of shooting and the film was shelved.
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Discuss about Neel Kamal Movie (From the Forum)

RajKapoorFan : Like I Read in Raj Kapoor Biography is that Raj woes Kidar Nath Sharma assistant but this time I Try to late Raj to play the Hero.
Did you see to the girl that play Ganga in her young age I think she the same girl that play on Boot Pulish.
I don't find her on the cast list but it stile can be her

Kkm: i have read this in different sites and raj kapoors different biography's that when he refused to carry on his studies his father who at that time was working with kidar sharma asked kidar to give him some work so raj got some work in the studios washing the floor errecting sets etc etc
while he was working there he became a clapper boy

kidar was shooting a scene of a movie where the king is dying but he could not get it right for 2 days because he wanted to shoot the sunset with king dying now the 3rd day everything was perfect the shot was ready the clapper boy was missing because he was combing his hair he rushed to the set and clapped but unfortunately the beard got stuck in his claps and came off everybody on the set started laughing which made kidar crazy and he slapped raj with great anger
kidar remembers he could not sleep that night

next day when he came to studios to his amazment raj was on duty
he called him in his office and saw marks of his slap still on this face
in regret he just offered him a role of hero in his next movie neel kamal

after reading all this if you watch the movie you will know what you are looking at

RajKapoorFan: What I Know that this movie woes shoot after Raj Saab leave the last studies. He move to work with Kidar Nath Sharma
"That is how I began my career, as the sixth or seventh assistant, trolley-puller, clapper-boy, somewhere in the laboratory picking up odd shots and in the editing department looking at the use of the gamma plus (the solution uses for editing) - that gave me a lot of basic training about the fundamentals of cinema. In 1944, Mr Kidar Sharma gave me my first lead as an actor in his film Neel Kamal. I had been his junior-most assistant for three years. One of my tasks was to give the clap before every shot. " (Raj Kapoor)

The movie show the begin of Raj Kapoor Career of Actor what he cell at an accident But Raj Never stop thing about his dream. He same the money from his Acting from his Company.
There same thing that Only His Big Fans can fell on this movie and this is the way of his act Raj doing great work in here the true that this film woes shoot after "Dil Ki Rani". It look like Raj woes waiting to this Drama movie. He woes so connect to the Drama.
I don't know way but I Stile think that there same thing missing in this movie. The Story also good but same thing stile missing.

Kkm: i think the missing thing is that the script is not very good

it feels that if different scenes are collected put in a box give it a good shuffle and thats it

i also felt that film maker was in a hurry in making the movie

RajKapoorFan: Yeah it sure what wily make you fell that the movie maker try to hurry by making this film.

It can be also the problem with the Person that Write the script Maybe He write Shurt Script and He think that the songs take same time of the movie.

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