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Madhubala asked filmmaker to divorce wife, son claims
In a new interview, filmmaker K. Asif's son Tajdar has claimed that Madhubala wanted his father to divorce his wife Nigar Sultana and marry her. He said the relationship was widely gossiped…
In a new interview, filmmaker K. Asif's son Tajdar has claimed that Madhubala wanted his father to divorce his wife Nigar Sultana and marry her. He said the relationship was widely gossiped about in the industry and had been reported in newspapers at the time.
Tajdar also spoke about Madhubala's relationship with Dilip Kumar, saying she was in love with him and that the two had a deep bond. The revelations offer a fresh glimpse into the personal life of one of Hindi cinema's most iconic stars.
Madhubala and Dilip Kumar never married, she later married Kishore Kumar. K. Asif directed the classic Mughal-e-Azam starring Madhubala and Dilip Kumar.
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The claim adds to the known tensions on the set of Mughal-e-Azam, where Asif's real-life equation with his lead actress was already complicated. Madhubala's romantic link with Dilip Kumar was an open secret, but the assertion that she pushed Asif to divorce his wife is new. Asif was married to actress Nigar Sultana, and his son Tajdar's account is a rare family perspective. What remains unverified is whether Asif ever seriously considered the request. The next step for historians and biographers will be to weigh Tajdar's statement against earlier accounts and any contemporaneous reports from the 1950s.
Source: ndtv.com
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