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Sunday, May 13th, 2012 by
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Vintage Tidbits – A bet on Madhubala (1954)

A bet of a thousand rupees was struck at a fashionable restaurant in Bom­bay—the subject of the bet being the beauteous Madhubala. The two parties concerned were Ramesh Chandra, producer of “Meenar”, and the Cal­cutta distributor of the film. The latter asked the producer if it would be possible to …

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Sunday, April 29th, 2012 by
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Madhubala and her Look-Alikes

Time and again, actresses have been compared to Madhubala. Some are known for their close resemblance with Madhubala, others have tried to imitate her eternal charm and then there have been direct and indirect references to her on celluloid. Here is the list of few such actresses who have been …

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Sunday, January 8th, 2012 by
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Shammi Kapoor on Madhubala

Shammi Kapoor was a tall, lanky, thin young man (“I had no shadow”), twenty-one-year-old and on the threshold of a career in films. A stint in the theatre had given him confidence, even a slightly superior attitude to “these film people”. He was at ease working with big directors like …

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Thursday, August 4th, 2011 by
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Inter-changing playback singers on same person in the same song

Using multiple playback singers for same person in the same film was a common practice in Hindi films. For example, in Tamasha (1952) Meena Kumari got playback from Geeta Dutt, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar. I can understand the reasons behind that practice.  Perhaps producers wanted to include as many …

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Monday, July 18th, 2011 by
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Jaane waale se mulaqat – Amar (1954) – Song which moved Madhubala to tears

Naushad recalls that Jaane waale se mulaqat na hone paayi from Amar (1954) had a special place in Madhubala’s heart. In fact, when it was first played on the sets, Madhubala burst into tears, which moved everyone else present.

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Monday, May 30th, 2011 by
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Dilip Kumar on Madhubala’s Beauty

Madhubala’s beauty was so overpowering that in paying homage to it, people have missed out on a lot of her other attributes, of course, she was beautiful, though I don’t think hers was a perfectly chiselled face. She had a slightly accentuated nose. Though it didn’t take away from the …

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Friday, March 25th, 2011 by
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Shyama’s Co-Stars – Madhubala

[Back to Shyama's Menu] She was extremely beautiful. I met her for the first time during Tarana. She was good in her work. She was in love with Dilip saab (Kumar). We thought they would get married. But things didn’t work out. Her father Attaullah Khan was very strict. She …

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Friday, December 31st, 2010 by
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Kala Pani (1958)

A crime movie about institutionalized corruption. Hero Karan (Anand) discovers that his father, believed dead, is in fact in jail for a murder he did not commit. Karan sets out to prove his father’s innocence with the help of a fearless journalist, Asha (Madhubala). The villain is the corrupt public …

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Sunday, November 21st, 2010 by
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Mahal (1949)

Bombay Talkies Mahal is a story of ghosts, spooks, apparitions, jitters, quivers, bats and snakes. It succeeds in giving one the creeps, but through more causes than one. In the initial stage the spine tingling chill of weird horror which slowly creeps down one’s back is because of the masterly …

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Monday, September 6th, 2010 by
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Anarkali – Fact or Fiction ?

It is now believed that Anarkali was in her forties or older when she was suspected of having an affair with the heir apparent, Prince Salim, who was then in the thirtieth year of his life and father to at least three sons from numerous wives. Salim’s father, the otherwise …

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