In the mid-1950s, her disease came to the public light and soon it gave her the label “box office poison.”.
Her fatigue and weakness were growing on daily basis and one day while working in the movie ‘Bahut Din Hue’ (1954), she vomited blood on the set.She suffered from a heart disease for nine years that she didn’t expose to anyone and continued to work hard until she victimized serious health issues.
Asif shackled her in real iron chains that caused injuries on her skin and she remained in pain for several days. During the making of ‘Mughal-E-Azam,’ to make her imprisoned scenes real director K.With the release of ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ on 5 August 1960, she touched the sky of success and the movie’s highest grossing record remained unbroken for fifteen years.The biggest hits of her career are ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ (1960), ‘Mr.She produced the films like ‘Naata’ (1955) and ‘Mahlon Ke Khwab’ (1960) and also acted in them.Ashok Kumar revealed that her illness made her bad-tempered and she used to go to her father’s house after having a fight with him.As per the opinion of Leena Chandavarkar (singer Kishore’s fourth wife), when Madhubala found that Dilip Kumar was not going to marry her, just to prove that she could marry anyone she liked, she decided to marry Kishore Kumar whom she didn’t even know properly.She accepted the proposal of Kishore Kumar who adopted Islam and took up the name Karim Abdul to marry her.She met Kishore Kumar during the making of the movie ‘Dhake Ki Malmal’ in 1956.While remembering her Dev Anand said that she liked to flirt and used to play one against the other out of innocence.Later, she was proposed for marriage by Kishore Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, and Bharat Bhushan.It also gave her the title “The Biggest Star in the World – and she’s not in Beverly Hills.” Her beauty was so famous worldwide that several foreign periodicals like American LIFE magazine featured her beautiful photographs and the ‘Theatre Arts’ journal published an article on her glamour with her picture in its August 1952 edition.Her sister stated that Madhubala’s parents didn’t like her to attend public functions or any premieres.Both remained in a romantic relationship for seven years. But she had to give up the courtship with Dilip due to her father’s opposition to him.