Hammers High: Lost Romance Of Mughal-e-Azam
Legendary Dilip Kumar saw Mughal-E-Azam for the first time in 1975, some fifteen years after its first premiere. Why? Read on.
It was onset of a classic romance, Dilip and Madhubala was a perfect match, they were both rising stars and had similar backgrounds to help take the relationship forward. Bliss followed with ecstasy of Dilip-Madhu Relationship mirroring that of Saleem-Anarkali relationship in the beginning. K Asif, the director would drop by at Dilip’s house for lengthy discussions, here he met Dilip elder sister Akhtar. Akhtar was a MA in Philosophy and would have long conversatios with K Asif. K Asif was married to Nigar Sultana (who played the crafty Bahar in the movie).
From then on relationship between these co-workers took downturn. Ironically, tense turn in Saleem-Anarkali relationship in script also mirrored in Dilip-Madhu Relationship. Madhu’s father was against the relation as she was the sole breadwinner in the family.They stopped seeing each other. K Asif and Akhtar got married against the wishes of Dilip. This in turn also estranged K Asif from Nigar Sultana.
Shooting took about ten years to complete and these people would grudgingly work together. So by the time shoot got over, most of the major people didn’t want to see each others face, to the extent that Dilip Kumar did not attend the premiere.
Thus one of the greatest films of Indian Cinema was also the cause of immense pain to many greats of the industry…
Written By: Ali ‘Rosebud’ Naqvi
5 comments:
a wonderful article which is infact very well written too... great work ali
@rishabh, @sujoy thanx.... to rishabh that u liked it and sujoy for making it your pick...
I will be posting my favorite from archives....
Hey I did miss this one on TRM, thanx for revisiting it.
Excellent article unveiling unknown facts to me. Gr8 work Ali
Ali,
I was not aware of this. Love the trivial bits that you collect. Keep up the good work, brother.
Gyandeep if you have watched Bollywood Blockbuster episode u can surely remember that 70% of that episode script had facts as in this post! I was proud that day as i had written this post much earlier! well this post has gist of what i have heard about stories of Mughal-e-Azam from generations before us... i may write a post in future regarding same matter in future
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