Madhubala
Also Known As: Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi, मधुबाला, मुमताज़ बेग़म जहाँ देहलवी, مدھو بالا
Biography: Madhubala (born Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi; February 14, 1933 – February 23, 1969) was an Indian film actress who is often regarded as the "Marilyn Monroe of India". The highest-grossing star of the 1950s, she was active between 1942 and 1960. She is also considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have worked in the industry and is highly regarded as "The Venus of Indian Cinema" and "The Beauty with Tragedy". Her performance as the alluring court dancer Anarkali in the historical epic Mughal-E-Azam (1960) cemented her status as an iconic and irreplaceable figure in Indian cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Delhi, British India
Birthday: February 14, 1933
Deathday: February 23, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Gateway of India
Overview: The happenings of one night. A young heiress, on the run from her murderous uncle, roams the streets of Bombay where she runs into a series of shady characters. To escape from them, she makes a rendezvous with all of them to meet her early next morning at the Gateway of India, which also happens to be the locale for some covert criminal activity involving her uncle, the idea being to nab the crooks red-handed.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-07-08
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Saiyan
Overview: A love triangle, the story revolves around two brothers (Ajit and Sajjan), both in love with an orphan girl (Madhubala), who is given shelter by their family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Shirin Farhad
Overview: A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Mughal-e-Azam
Overview: In the 16th century, when Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Anarkali, Emperor Akbar's disapproval leads to a battle between father and son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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Passport
Overview: While assisting the Bombay Police in arresting diamond smugglers, Shekhar (Pradeep Kumar) suspects Bhagwandas (Nazir Hussain) who owns a jewellery shop. Soon, he discovers that Bhagwandas is the father of Rita, his love interest (Madhubala).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
Overview: Three woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Mr. & Mrs. '55
Overview: A young, naive heiress is forced into a 'marriage of convenience' with an unemployed cartoonist in an attempt to save her millions - a move orchestrated by the scheming aunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Naata
Overview: A woman describes the relationship between her sister and a postmaster
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Hanste Ansu
Overview: Usha, a well-educated girl, is married to Kumar by her drunkard father. Being illiterate, Kumar gets jealous of Usha's education and her frank nature. He abuses her and she leaves their home and begins to battle for women's right. She gives birth to a son and starts to work in a factory, where male workers start to dominate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Amar Prem
Overview: Amar Prem is a movie directed by N.M. Kelkar featuring Madhubala, Alka Rani.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Chittor Vijay
Overview: Chittor Vijay is a 1947 Hindi language film directed by Mohan Sinha, featuring Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in the lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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Phagun
Overview: The new owners of Deepak Mahal meet with its caretaker, Mattu, who narrates the story of its' former owners: Bijondra - the only child of a wealthy Hindu Brahmin Zamindar; and Banani - the only child of a single father, Banjara Sardar Tinkari. Starting with the move to evict the Banjaras from his father's property, flute-playing Bijondra meets with and falls in love with pretty dancer, Banani - leading to being asked to leave by his enraged father; while Banani's father plans her marriage to Banjara Madhal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Jwala
Overview: Jwala (transl. Flame) is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language action film directed and produced by M. V. Raman and written by Chandliyan. It stars Madhubala (in her final, posthumous film appearance) and Sunil Dutt, with Sohrab Modi and Pran in pivotal roles. The film's music was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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Mahal
Overview: A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.
Genres: Romance Horror Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-10-19
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Rebel Soldier
Overview: A Roman military commander falls in love with Ranjana, a devout Christian. The Roman Empire's atrocities toward the Christians prompt the commander to become a rebel soldier to protect the Christian community from the Roman Emperor.
Genres: History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Khazana
Overview: Film starring Madhubala and Nasir Khan.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Moodalmanju
Overview: The film stars Prem Nazir, Sheela, Adoor Bhasi and P. J. Antony in the lead roles.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Pardes
Overview: A teacher falls in love with a wealthy girl but decides to go away from her to earn money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Singaar
Overview: A couple's marriage begins troubling after the doctor carries an extramarital affair with a dancing girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Jhumroo
Overview: Anjana lives a wealthy lifestyle with her dad, Dwarka Nath, in a hilly region in India. When she returns home after several years, she finds that her dad has become more strict and a disciplinarian, and even has his erring employees and villagers flogged. Then she meets with local villager, Jhumroo, and both fall in love with each other. Jhumroo takes her home to introduce her to his mom, Kamla, who approves of her instantly. When Dwarka comes to know about this, he is enraged, and quickly announces her marriage with his Manager, Ramesh. Jhumroo is heart-broken and goes to meet with Anjana, who does tell him that she loves him, but must obey her father. What Jhumroo and Anjana do not know is that she is not Dwarka's daughter, but is the daughter of Kamla, and abducted at a very young age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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Saqi
Overview: 1952 Indian Film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Kala Pani
Overview: Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a fifteen-year-old murder, vows to bring the true criminals to justice and release his innocent father from 'kaala paani' (life imprisonment), for which he enlists the help of a press reporter, a retired police inspector and an unwitting prostitute who happens to possess some key evidence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-02-23
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In Search of Guru Dutt
Overview: This documentary is a three-part tribute to director Guru Dutt, who died in 1964 at the age of 39. The work traces Guru Dutt's personal story through many interviews with his family members and colleagues and observes his work through the use of extensive film excerpts. The documentary was produced by the British television network Channel 4 producer Nasreen Munni Kabir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-11
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Half Ticket
Overview: A diamond thief hides his loot on an innocent child, but the child turns out to be an adult posing as a youngster to purchase a half-priced train ticket. Now, the thief will have to outwit the eccentric in a series of wacky misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Raj Hath
Overview: A stubborn emperor plans to wage war against another who had humiliated him and his daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Naqab
Overview: Naqab is a 1955 Indian Hindustani-language fantasy film directed by Lekhraj Bhakhri. It stars Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala, Ajit and the film revolves around a damsel in distress who receives help from her fiance and his sister.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Howrah Bridge
Overview: Rakesh lives with his brother, Madan, and his dad in Rangoon. Madan has fallen into bad company and steals the family heirloom, in the shape of a dragon, some cash and runs away to India. Shortly thereafter, his dead body is found under Calcutta's Howrah Bridge. Rakesh travels to Calcutta in order to find out the mystery behind Madan's death, and also try to recover the family heirloom.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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Amar
Overview: A delicately nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the main characters and the crisis of conscience that rocks it. A prosperous, well-respected lawyer, in love with and engaged to an educated, socially-conscious young woman, rapes a poor local village milkmaid. The rest of the story deals with the aftermath of this tragic event, with all the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1954-10-07
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Barsaat Ki Raat
Overview: After falling in love with a girl seeking shelter in a rain, he goes to find the girl. Includes the classic song Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Insaan Jaag Utha
Overview: Musical - Gauri lives with her crippled ex-army dad and brother. One day she notices a man calling himself Ranjeet lurking around their house. What she doesn't know is that Ranjeet is here for a reason--the suitcase of gold he had buried in Gauri's front yard. Sunil Dutt, Madhubala, Nasir Hussain
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Neel Kamal
Overview: A military coup leads to two outcast princesses falling for the same rakish artist.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-24
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Basant
Overview: Uma (Mumtaz Shanti) and Babul (Suresh) are poor and homeless siblings. Both of them have got singing talent but are unable to find any job. Then they meet Nirmal who is younger brother of theater owner Janki Babu. Nirmal persuades his brother to give them a chance. After seeing their talent, Janki Babu also admires Uma and gives her leading role at his theater. Then Nirmal and Uma fall in love with each other and get married. However, Nirmal has a misunderstanding that his elder brother also likes Uma and wanted to marry her. He does not approve of Uma's job in theater but himself is struggling to find a job. Uma leaves the job and they also also leave Janki babu's house. Now they have a small baby daughter, Manju. But soon they see the true face of poverty and struggle to cope with it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Dulari
Overview: Prem Shankar lives a wealthy life-style circa after the British Rule in India, with his businessman father, Girija, and housewife mother, Kamini. He is now of marriageable age, and his parents would like him to marry Seth Heerachand's daughter, but Prem wants to marry someone of his own choice, without any pressure from his parents. He befriends a young woman named Kasturi, who falls in love with him. Prem also meets with a gypsy woman named Dulari, and falls head over heels in love with her. When his father finds out, he is enraged, forbids Prem to ever see Dulari again, and warns him that he can only marry a woman from a good and wealthy family background. It is now up to Prem to decide to follow his father's instructions or do as his heart tells him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Badal
Overview: A peasant and his followers take up banditry and rebellion in response to unjust taxation from wicked deputies of the King. Robin Hood style.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-09-06
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Aparadhi
Overview: The film is set during the Pre-Independence days and revolves around a husband who suspects his wife of having an affair with a freedom fighter sheltering with them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Train Compartment
Overview: A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home - an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise in the group when he marries one of the inmates, a young, destitute girl, since his friend (one of the other inmates) loves her too.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1953-06-27
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Sharabi
Overview: Keshav, an alcoholic, swears off alcohol after his father's death. He loves Kamala, whose father gets him a job and fixes a marriage date. But, the marriage is cancelled when he starts drinking again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Sangdil
Overview: In this loose adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, childhood sweethearts Kamla and Shankar are separated and grow up in different worlds. The girl is brought up to be a priestess, while the boy becomes a dejected thakur, turned vindictive by life's injustices. Fate inevitably brings them together again, but Kamla does not know about her beloved's secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Boy Friend
Overview: A young lad, separated at a young age from his parents takes on the life of petty crime and ends up in jail. On his release he comes across a friend in a train, and at the friend's request sets upon to trace his two daughters; he meets them and falls in love with one of them. But the police are on his trail due to a stolen necklace belonging to none other than his birth mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Jaali Note
Overview: High-minded and hardworking Inspector Dinesh Kumar (Dev Anand) is assigned to crack the case of a notorious band of counterfeiters. Risking life and limb in pursuit of the criminals, he goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and bring them to justice. Along the way, he finds romance with a beautiful journalist (Madhubala) and makes a shocking discovery that resonates with personal meaning.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Dil Ki Rani
Overview: A comic tale of a poet and his fan both in love with each other and relentless efforts by his would be father in law to not let them marry each other. Instead, he wants his daughter to be married to the poet's friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Ek Saal
Overview: The father of a dying woman pays a con artist to make his daughter's final year a happy one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Tarana
Overview: After a plane crash, Dr. Motilal (Dilip Kumar) is left stranded in a small village, where he is given shelter by a blind old man called Surdas and his playful, young daughter Tarana (Madhubala). During the course of his stay, Motilal falls for the charms of the innocent Tarana.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-10-05
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Bahut Din Hue
Overview: Kidnapped by a villainous sorcerer, young mother Balanagamma (Pushpavalli) remains in captivity for more than 12 years, spurning her captor's sexual advances with claims of being in the midst of a long-term penance ritual. In her absence, her son has grown to adulthood -- and is determined to rescue his missing mother.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1954-03-19
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Beqasoor
Overview: When Brijmohan moves out with his ailing mother due to a family dispute, he comes across a runaway woman on his quest for a new job. What follows is the journey and trials and tribulations of these two strangers as they traverse, courtship, marriage and family politics.
Genres: Family Drama Romance Crime Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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Nirala
Overview: A doctor unknowingly spurns a woman who loves him, compelling her to marry a wealthy king whose three wives allegedly killed themselves.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-06-11
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Aaram
Overview: Leela is a beautiful young lady who wishes to marry her sweetheart and poor artist Shyam. By chance, Leela meets Sita, a Rani whose son falls instantly in love with Leela, leaving the young lady with a life-changing dilemma.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-08-22
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Do Ustad
Overview: Two rival career-criminal brothers recollect their lives in a Courtroom in which one is about to be convicted for murder.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Kal Hamara Hai
Overview: Kal Hamara Hai is a 1959 Indian Hindi film, directed by S.K. Prabhakar and produced by K. Amarnath. The film stars Madhubala, Bharat Bhushan, and Jayant in lead roles. The film has a musical score by Chitra Gupta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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Mehlon Ke Khwaab
Overview: After winning a lottery, Asha and Bela round up a holiday to find suitable husbands. But they end up being framed for stealing a precious necklace.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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Dark Brandon
Overview: Poetry. Multimedia. This follow-up to Downing's 2005 collection DARK BRANDON is the filmic flip-side of that book's dizzying convergence of visual culture and syntactic shock. Drawing on 1960s Bollywood, 1980s Public Access poetry television, poorly rendered nature-documentary graphics, and other heights (and depths) of the moving image, these films, collected here, remain nothing less than poetry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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Good and Evil
Overview: A wealthy man forces his wife and their new-born daughter, Soshila, out of the house because he had hoped his wife would deliver a son. Years later, Soshila and her boyfriend, work for her father and attempt to win her father's affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-10-24
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Yahoodi Ki Ladki
Overview: Yahoodi Ki Ladki (The Jew's Daughter) is a Hindi drama film directed by S.D. Narang, starring Madhubala and Pradeep Kumar as leads. The film became a silver jubilee hit on its release in January 1957.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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Phoolwari
Overview: Phoolwari, a critical and commercial success, is cited to be one of the most successful and important films of Motilal. It is considered lost today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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