Matinee Masala

Dilip Kumar and Madhubala- the daring on screen couple in Mughal-E-Azam who sang “Jab Pyaar Kiya To Dar Na Kya” did not carry their guts off screen. The sizzling on screen couple had a hot-shot off screen romance. It all started when the stars met on the sets of their first film “Tarana”. Madhubala was not yet eighteen and she sent a note written in Urdu through her hairdresser with a red rose to Dilip Sahab, asking him to accept it if he loved her. This amused and intrigued Dilip Sahab and he readily accepted it. Next came Sangdil ‘ (1952) and Amar’ (1953).

When matter eventually came to marriage, Madhubala’s father opposed it strongly and also didn’t let her go for outdoor shoot for ‘Naya Daur’ because of which she lost a ugly court case and had to pay compensation to the producer of the movie. A very unhappy Dilip Kumar declared dramatically in a crowded courtroom at the end of the case, ‘I shall love her until the day she dies.’ There the relationship ended in a bitter note. During the 10 years span that Mughal-e-Azam was being made, it is said that, both the stars never spoke to each other.

Madhubala eventually married her other co-star Kishore Kumar and died at the age of 36 from heart trouble. Dilip Kumar on the other hand went through a high profile nikah with Saira Banu who was a good twenty years his junior and still remains married to her. And thus ended another classic love story in a sad note! The third and the last part will have the eternal love story of Raj Kapoor and Nargis.

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