She starred in several successful movies in the 1950s and early 1960s, many of which have attained a classic status. Mumtaz Begum Jehan Dehlavi, known by her stage name Madhubala (Devnagari: मधुबाला) (14 February 1933 - 23 February 1969) was a popular Hindi movie actress. Madhubala eventually married Kisore Kumar and Dilip a crushed man slipped into alcohol and eventually married Saira Banu The legend goes that Dilip Kumar exclaimed on the witness stand, 'I shall love her till the day she dies'. Her father even kept Madhubala from co-staring in a film with Dilip that ended in a court case for breach of contract to the films producers. Madly in love with each other Dilip Kumar and Madhubala were kept from marrying because of the objections of Madhubala's father. Madhubala was involved in one of the most celebrated tragic real life film romances of Indian film. However it was with the Bombay Talkies suspense thriller Mahal (1949) that Madhubala became a star.' (upperstall,com) The fact was that her father eager to make ends meet pushed his daughter into acting. It was Kidar Sharma who gave her a break as heroine opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). 'Born in abject poverty, the 5th of 11 children, Madhubala began life in the film world as a child star, Baby Mumtaz, in films like Bombay Talkies Basant (1942). She embodied the image of beauty and a life right out of a Bollywood script.

In an industry seeped in melodrama and grand histrionics such a title does not come without a price. Apart from production, Mani Ratnam also has written story and screenplay for movies directed by others.Madhubala has become an icon, she is celebrated as the single most beautiful actress Hindi cinema has ever produced. All movies directed by Mani Ratnam subsequent to Iruvar have been produced through Madras Talkies. Mani Ratnam had earlier produced Thiruda Thiruda under his personal name. Mani Ratnam established Madras Talkies for movie production during the shoot of Iruvar. Madhavan, Surya Sivakumar, Siddharth Narayan, Meera Jasmine, Esha Deol, Trisha, Bharathiraja, JanagarajĪjay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherjee, Esha Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Om PuriĪbhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhavan, Vidya Balan, Mallika Sherawat, Mithun ChakrabortyĪbhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vikram, Madhavan, Simran, Nandita Das, Keerthana, Prakash Raj, Pasupathyĭubbed into English as A Peck on the Cheek Madhavan, Shalini, Arvind Swamy, Kushboo, Vivek, Sukumari, Lalitha, Jayasudha, Pyramid Natarajan Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai, Prakash Raj, Madhubala, Tabu, Revathi, Gouthami, Nassar Prashanth, Anand, Heera Rajgopal, Anu Agarwal, BalasubrahmanyamĪrvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Nassar, Prakash Raj Rajinikanth, Mammooty, Arvind Swamy, Amrish Puri, Sobhana, Bhanupriya, Srividya, Geetha, JaishankarĪrvind Swamy, Madhubala, Pankaj Kapoor, Nassar, Janagarajĭubbed into Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi as Roja Raghuvaran, Revathi, Prabhu, Tarun Kumar, Shamili, Shruti, Saranya Prabhu, Karthik, Vijayakumar, Nirosha, Amala, Janagaraj, Jayachitraĭubbed into Tamil as Idhayathai Thirudathey Murali, Revathi Menon, Radhika Sarath Kumar, Sathyaraj For many of these movies, Mani Ratnam is also credited for the story, screenplay and producing:

The following is the list of movies directed by Mani Ratnam.

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