Born in Delhi as Mumtaz Begum Jehan Dehlavi, Madhubala started out her career in the early 40s as a child artist, and was credited in her first films simply as Mumtaz.

It was when she was cast opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal that she began to use the name Madhubala. She was just 14 at the time.

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