The two greatest and influential personalities in Indian cinema had striking similarities in real life.
Meenakumari and Madhubala were almost of same age.
Started their career as child artists at the age of 5 and 9 respectively.They were the sole breadwinners of their families.
Madhubala as Baby Mumtaz in Basant Meenakumari as Baby Meena in Lal Haveli
Tragic love stories in the industry itself,Madhubala's romance with the leading star Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari marriage with much old film director Kamal Amrohi.Their broken relationship hogged headlines in the media.Madhubala later married Kishore Kumar.It was not the first marriage to both their husbands.
Other striking coincidence is the delayed release of the biggest films of both these actors, magnum opus of K Asif and Kamal Amrohi, Mughal-E-Azam and Pakeezah.
The development of Mughal-E-Azam began in 1944 and was released in 1960.Pakeezah took 14 years to shoot due to indifferences in the personal life of Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi.The actresses played courtesan and a dancer in those two big budget films respectively and the two struggled with health issues during the shooting of the films.
These two divas of hindi cinema left the world very young in their late 30s.
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