Madhubala and Dilip Kumar - Revision history

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-[[Dilip Kumar: a biography]]
+[[Dilip Kumar: a biography]], for his his (short) take on what went wrong
 [[Dilip Kumar: his films, their box office performance, awards, career]]

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-[[Dilip Kumar]]
+[[Dilip Kumar: a biography]]
-[[Madhubala, actress ]]
-[[Madhubala and Dilip Kumar]]
+[[Dilip Kumar: his films, their box office performance, awards, career]]
-[[Mughal-e-Azam]]
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	full article [http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/mar/25sd1.htm rediff]		full article [http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/mar/25sd1.htm rediff]
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		+	=Problems with Dilip Kumar=
		+	==Naya Daur imbroglio==
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		+	BR Chopra surprised everyone, including his leading lady Madhubala, when he sued her for reneging the contract for Naya Daur (1957). Her father Ataullah Khan had objected to her going for an extended outdoor shoot with Dilip Kumar. And while Dilip Kumar witnessed against Ataullah Khan, he also ended up confessing his love for Madhubala in the courtroom. The news made banner headlines… but ended their relationship.(Filmfare)
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		+	==Legal wrangles==
		+	[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Silent-knights-and-item-songs/articleshow/19757737.cms The Times of India ]
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		+	The best-known case of a famous actress losing her good name in the wake of a much publicized court case is Madhubala, screen goddess of the 1950s. Producer-director B R Chopra filed a case against Madhubala and her father Ataullah Khan, early into the making of his Naya Daur (1957) for cheating — for taking cash advance on the film and then refusing to honour her contract. The film's hero Dilip Kumar testified in court against Madhubala making for courtroom drama
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		+	==Instigation by Dilip Kumar? (March 30 \| 1957)==
		+	[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Silent-knights-and-item-songs/articleshow/19757737.cms The Times of India ]
		+	[[File: Dilip Kumar.jpg\|\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	From TOI archives (March 29 \| 1957)
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		+	Dilip Kumar said he had found it "hard to
		+	digest" when he heard from the producers of the film in which he was given a role opposite Madhubala that they had to pay Madhubala a sum of Rs 32000 "under duress". He said that he repeatedly told her, that what they had done was wrong...
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		+	Dilip Kumar, the Indian screen idol, was charged with having instigated ... B R Films, to file a suit against Madhubala, a film star, for alleged cheating at the resumed hearing of the case ... Presidency magistrate, Girgaum Court...
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		+	Madhubala and her father Attaullah Khan, were charged with failure to honour contractual obligation for a film in which she had agreed to play the feminine lead. Mr B M Mistry, advocate for Madhubala, accused him of being the man "behind the prosecuion". "He (Dilip Kumar) is a jilted lover," he asserted. Answering a question whether he was in love with Madhubala, Dilip Kumar said she wanted to marry him. "I too loved her; it was a mutual feeling," he stated. When asked why he could not marry her, witness stated that it was because of Madhubala's responsibilities towards her father. He believed that was the only obstacle to their marriage.
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		+	To another question he answered that the feeling and desire for marriage with her continued till he had felt that she had acted in a manner not consistent with the norms of good behaviour...Witness denied that he was drunk on July 4, 1956 when he had gone to Madhubala's house in Bandra....

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 [http://madhubaladilip.webs.com/theirlovestory.htm Madhubala and Dilip Kumar] Excerpted from the website 'madhubaladilip.webs.com' that is now frozen.

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 Once, however, the bubbly actress' talent did not quite rise to the occasion. This was the time when, in her personal life, her love affair with Dilip Kumar was at its peak. She was shooting for Guru Dutt's Mr. and Mrs. 55 at Mehboob Studio. Abrar Alvi, the film's scriptwriter; narrates the incident, The scene to be shot had Lalita Pawar showing Madhubala a photograph of her husband in a compromising position with another woman. It was a ruse to make the heroine file for divorce. Since we didn't have the relevant photograph at the time of the shoot we borrowed a photograph of the same size, from Mehboob Khan's office, with the intention of inserting the right later on. Now, it so happened that the one we borrowed was a photograph of Dilip Kumar. When Madhu saw it she just refused to do the scene. 'I can't concentrate,' she pleaded. 'Please get another photograph.' No amount of cajoling helped. Ultimately, we had to do as she wished.
- An emergency meeting was calledincluding Kumar, Amrohi, the famous composer Naushad, and the film's new producer Shapurji. Surprisingly, all agreed to Attaullah Khan's terms--Dilip Kumar's voice reportedly being the loudest in support. Madhubala was signed on to play Anarkali.
+An emergency meeting was called including Kumar, Amrohi, the famous composer Naushad, and the film's new producer Shapurji. Surprisingly, all agreed to Attaullah Khan's terms--Dilip Kumar's voice reportedly being the loudest in support. Madhubala was signed on to play Anarkali.
 === Mughal-e-Azam===
 During the making of Mughal-e-Azam, Dilip Kumar was in the habit of dropping by to see Madhubala even when he was not required for the day's shooting. He came on her sets and, if she was working, nothing was said. He stood watching; wordless glances were exchanged and he left, but his very presence was enough to transport

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 ===Madhubala drowns herself in work===
 For the next few years, she followed the time-honoured antidote for heartbreak and, turning to her work, tried to forget her troubles. She had the satisfaction of working in a number of highly successful films like Kala Pani, Howrah Bridge, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Barsaat Ki Raat On the personal front, she made an admirable bid to maintain a facade of normalcy, but a wastefulness and a lost look began to lurk just under the surface, and the fabulous smile no longer reached her eyes. "She must have been miserable, but she wouldn't show it," comments Sushila Rani Patel. "An ethereal beauty," noted Gulshan Ewing, "whose eyes were always sad, but whose lips were always smiling." But in the presence of long-time colleagues or in the privacy of her make-up room, there were times when sobs racked Madhubala. . It seemed the pair continued to pine for each other far after their break up, Dilp Kumar a crushed man slipped to alcohol, and eventually married Saira Bano Bharat Bhushan, Pradeep Kumar, and Kishore Kumar proposed her to. She eventually married the latter of the three, she and Kishore Kumar argued and bickered constantly, plunged into a loveless marriage with him Madhubala soon realized that she had made a mistake in marrying him, as she truly loved and desperately wanted to marry Dilip.
-=== An interview with Madhubala’s sister
+=== An interview with Madhubala’s sister===
- (Taken from an interview with Madhubala?s sister)
+(Taken from an interview with Madhubala?s sister)
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 The sum total of my life is a bitter experience which is coiled tight like a spring within my heart and when released hurts excruciatingly. It is true that one learns something from every experience but when the experience is evil, the shock is so great that one feels as though one can never recover from it.
 Dilip Kumar and Madhubala were both very private persons, and their meetings were away from the public eye. 'They went out for drives after shooting', said a friend, 'or she picked him up on her way to the studios. She'd sound the horn and he came out and joined her. She did not enter his house. It looked very much like they'd get married any day. When Dilip Kumar married Saira Banu [in October 1966] she did not like it.'
 === Nadira’s recollections===

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 The outcome was that half way through the production of Mughal-e-Azam, we were not even talking to each other. The classic scene with the feather coming between our lips, which set a million imaginations on fire, was shot when we had completely stopped even greeting each other. It should, in all fairness, go down in the annals of film history as a tribute to the artistry of two professionally committed actors who kept aside personal differ ences and fulfilled the director's vision of a sensitive, arresting and sensuous screen moment to perfection.
-*** Contrary to popular notions, her father, Ataullah Khan, was not opposed to her marrying me. He had his own production company and he was only too glad to have two stars under the same roof. Had I not seen the whole business from my own point of view, it would have been just what he wanted, that is, Dilip Kumar and Mad hubala holding hands and singing duets in his productions till the end of our careers. When I learned about his plans from Madhu, I explained to both of them that I had my own way of functioning and selecting projects and I would not show any laxity even if it were my own production house. It must have tilted the apple cart for him and he successfully convinced Madhu that I was being rude and presumptuous.
+Contrary to popular notions, her father, Ataullah Khan, was not opposed to her marrying me. He had his own production company and he was only too glad to have two stars under the same roof. Had I not seen the whole business from my own point of view, it would have been just what he wanted, that is, Dilip Kumar and Mad hubala holding hands and singing duets in his productions till the end of our careers. When I learned about his plans from Madhu, I explained to both of them that I had my own way of functioning and selecting projects and I would not show any laxity even if it were my own production house. It must have tilted the apple cart for him and he successfully convinced Madhu that I was being rude and presumptuous.
 I told her in all sincerity and honesty that I did not mean any offence and it was in her interest and mine as artistes to keep our professional options away from any personal considerations. She was naturally inclined to agree with her father and she persisted in trying to convince me that it would all be sorted out once we married.
 My instincts, however, predicted a situation in which I would be trapped and all the hard work and dedication I had invested in my career would be blown away by a hapless surrender to someone else's dictates and strategies. I had many upfront discussions with her father and she, not surprisingly, remained neutral and unmoved by my dilemma. The scenario was not very pleasant and it was heading inevitably to a dead end. In the circumstances, therefore, it seemed best that we did not decide to marry or even give each other a chance to rethink because my resolve by then had become strongly against a union that would not be good for either of us.
 '' Excerpted from `Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow' with permissions [obtained by The Times of India] from Hay House India and Penguin Books India  ''
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