Dilip Kumar and Madhubala went from being lovers to being exes through the filming of Okay Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam. Their break up was induced due to many causes which included interference from Madhubala’s father and later, the Naya Daur case the place filmmaker BR Chopra sued Madhubala and referred to as Dilip Kumar as his witness, was the ultimate nail within the coffin. However by way of all of it, the shoot of Mughal-e-Azam continued. In the course of the shoot, there was a scene the place Dilip Kumar’s Salim was required to slap Madhubala’s Anarkali. In movies, whereas capturing such a scene, nobody truly slaps the opposite individual however simply fake to hit them however right here, Dilip turned the ‘display screen slap’ into an actual life slap.
The incident is recapped within the guide ‘I Need To Stay: The Story Of Madhubala’, written by Khatija Akbar, through Ajit, who was their co-actor in Mughal-e-Azam. Ajit was additionally Dilip’s co-actor in Naya Daur. The guide shared that Dilip “let go” and hit Madhubala’s face with “full power.” Whereas the shot was authorised, however there was an ungainly silence on the set as nobody noticed it coming.
Ajit shared that as Madhubala stood there trying surprised, Okay Asif ran in direction of her and advised her that this slap was proof that Dilip was nonetheless in love along with her despite the fact that that they had damaged up. “I’m very joyful in the present day for it’s obvious he nonetheless loves you. Who, however a person in love, might have performed one thing like this? It solely proves he cherished you and continues to like you no matter chances are you’ll assume,” he reportedly advised her. This remark from the director did nothing for Madhubala as she was shocked that the person who as soon as cherished her, had slapped her whereas utilizing appearing as an excuse.
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In his memoirs, Dilip Kumar wrote that Madhubala’s father Ataullah Khan wished to show his proposed marriage along with her right into a enterprise proposition. He had instructed that after their marriage, each Dilip and Madhubala will solely work for his manufacturing firm. “I defined to each of them that I had my very own approach of functioning and choosing tasks and I might not present any laxity even when it had been my very own manufacturing home. It should have tilted the apple cart for him and he efficiently satisfied Madhu that I used to be being impolite and presumptuous,” Dilip wrote in his biography.
The animosity between the 2 grew a lot that they ultimately stopped speaking to one another altogether. They’re nonetheless remembered for his or her on-screen love story as Salim and Anarkali, however their actual life tragic love story was nothing lower than a film and for that, followers proceed to take curiosity of their life.
