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Madhubala: I don't want to die...

Born Mumtaz Jehan Begum in Delhi in 1933, she began working in films as a child performer in 1942. Few who saw her then could have predicted that she would grow into one of the most graceful and versatile figures in Hindi cinema.

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This richly illustrated volume follows her path from minor roles to stardom, along with her marriage to the singer and actor Kishore Kumar. It gives particular attention to the painful position she found herself in, caught between two people she loved most: the actor Dilip Kumar and her own father, Ataullah Khan.

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