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Madhubala offered Kamal Amrohi money to divorce wife, says son
Madhubala asked filmmaker Kamal Amrohi to divorce his wife and leave his children, and offered to pay him money to do so, his son Tajdar Amrohi has claimed in a new interview.…
Madhubala asked filmmaker Kamal Amrohi to divorce his wife and leave his children, and offered to pay him money to do so, his son Tajdar Amrohi has claimed in a new interview. Tajdar said the actress, who was a major star and producer at the time, demanded Amrohi leave his first wife Sayeda and his family to be with her. When he refused, the relationship ended.
Tajdar told interviewer Vickey Lalwani that Madhubala said, "I will give you x amount of money. You give this much to your wife and to your kids, and get them out of your life." He said Amrohi replied, "I sell stories and dialogues, not my children and wife." Tajdar said his mother was unaware of the affair while it was happening.
Kamal Amrohi and Madhubala fell in love while working on the 1949 film *Mahal*, which he directed. The filmmaker later married actress Meena Kumari. Tajdar said his father is the only man to have worked with three of Indian cinema's most beautiful actresses.
Indian Opinion Analysis
This is the latest in a series of posthumous disclosures about Madhubala’s personal life, a subject Bollywood lore has long shrouded in ambiguity. Tajdar Amrohi, now in his 70s, is the eldest son from Kamal Amrohi’s first marriage, making him an unusually direct witness to the events he narrates. The claim that Madhubala offered money, a detail absent from her standard biographies, adds a new dimension to the story of her breakup, but it remains a single contested account from a family member. No independent document, letter or contemporary interview with Madhubala corroborates the alleged demand. The story does not change the known outcome: Madhubala never married Amrohi, she later lived with Dilip Kumar in a house owned by her father, and she died in 1969 from heart complications. The next detail to watch for is whether other family members or archival material surface to support or refute Tajdar’s version.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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