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Venus of the Screen-Madhu Bala

Mumtaz Begum Jehan Dehlavi famously known as Madhubala was born on 14 February 1933 was an extremely popular Bollywood actress who made a mark in the industry which no other actress has managed to achieve so far. Even with contemporaries like Nargis and Meena Kumari , she was regarded as the most talented and powerful actress that Hindi Cinema had ever seen. Madhubala was born into a conservative Pathan family in New Delhi. When Madhubala's father lost his job at the Imperial Tobacco Company in Peshawar and she lost her four sisters and two brothers, life came to a standstill for her and her family moved to Mumbai in search of a better life. They frequented Mumbai's film studios in search of Work. After a lot of struggle, Mumtaz was made to enter the film industry at the age of nine. first film of her Bollywood career, title Basant released in the year 1942 was a huge hit. In the movie, she played the daughter of actress Mumtaz Shanti. She continued playing a child artist ...