Madhubala

What strikes me most about Madhubala is how completely she transcends her era. She died at just thirty-six, in 1969, yet historians still rank her among the finest actresses Indian cinema has ever produced — that kind of staying power is not nostalgia, it is evidence. Born in New Delhi on Valentine's Day 1933, she packed an entire legend into a tragically short career. I am drawn to performers whose legacy outgrows their filmography, and she is the definitive case. Some stars simply fade with time; Madhubala instead became the benchmark against which generations of Hindi film actresses are still measured.

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Name (English)

Madhubala

Name (Japanese)

マドゥバラ

Reading

まどぅばら

Born

February 14, 1933 – February 23, 1969

Origin

New Delhi, India

Occupation

film actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhubala
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36881

Tags

• film actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.