Madhubala: An Enchantress of Bollywood!
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Image Source : INDIATVShe was the sole breadwinner for a family of seven with five sisters.
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Her father kept a strict hold onto her career and worked as her manager.
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As she started working at an very early age, she had no chance of attending school.
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Though she knew urdu and could speak Pashtu, but till the day she died she could never speak a single word in English.
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She had such translucent and fair complexion, that you could easily see the color of 'Paan' going down her throat.
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She was highly prone to laughing. For instance a close source recollects that during a scene in movie, 'Amar', actress Nimmi had a dance sequence before Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. And as Nimmi peformed wrong steps, Madhubala went into huge gagle of laughter.
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She also had a passion for driving and hence at the age of 12, she learnt this as her passion for speed and wheels.
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She was also passionate about her pets, in 1959, Madhubala's house was full of dogs. At that time there were 18 of them.
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Her real name was Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi, born to a pathn family in Delhi on February 14, 1933 to a Pathan family.
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She soon complicated her life and career because of her excessive and unquestioning obedience to her father.
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She is the only actress who worked in 66 films as lead actress.
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Madhubala's opportunities for forming close friendships were few. Due to the strict regimen she was made to follow by her father, her only exposure to her colleagues was in the studios
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Madhubala as second wife of Actor singer Kishore Kumar. She was married to him until her death.