Those arching eyebrows, those large, languishing brown eyes…that shy sweet smile…the full lipped mouth, the perfect nose…the delicately sensuous figure…a truly rapturous beauty and unarguably the most beautiful woman to have ever graced the Indian movie screen…Madhubala, remains to this day one of the most enduring legends of Indian cinema.
Her mischievous stare was both confiding and questioning, a look that defied the dogma that man is superior to woman. Her sheer good looks overshadowed her acting talents but her swansong…the epic movie Mughal-e-Azam showed the world what this ethereal beauty was capable of. Is it by coincidence that she was born on Valentine’s day? Whoever named her Madhubala couldn’t have done better than that; for even the name translates to honey, fragrant, spring of love.
