Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon
Madhubala — Ek Ishq Ek Junoon (Translation: Madhubala — A love, a passion) is an Indian television series that premiered on 28 May 2012[1] and ran through until 9 August 2014,[3] Produced to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, it aired on Colors TV Monday to Friday (later Saturday) evenings.[4]
| Madhubala — Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |
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| Genre | Drama Romance |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Ravindra Gautam Amit D Malik Prasad bhagwan yadav Devashish Dhar |
| Creative director(s) | Yoma Shreshth |
| Starring | Vivian Dsena Drashti Dhami |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 648[1] |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Saurabh Tewari Abhinav Shukla |
| Cinematography | Ganesh Sankla |
| Editor(s) | Rochak Ahuja |
| Production company(s) | Nautanki Films |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors TV |
| Picture format | |
| Original release | 28 May 2012[1] – 9 August 2014[2] |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Plot
Madhubala "Madhu" Choudhary was born on a film set and destined to become a heroine but works in a parlour whereas her family works as junior artists in the Mumbai film industry. One fateful encounter brings her standing against Bollywood superstar Rishabh Kundra alias RK. She fights a case of hit and run on behalf of her friend Mukund against RK and sends him to jail.
Mukund proposes Madhu and they get engaged. RK insinuates that Madhu is his girlfriend and humiliates her mother Padmini and guardian Shamsher Malik’s relationship. He says they are having a secret affair for the last 20 years. Mukund breaks off his engagement thinking Madhu has an affair with RK.
Madhu visits RK’s set and slaps him who puts forward an offer of forty lakh rupees for her father Balraj’s treatment as he was badly beaten up on RK’s set after he had shown up to kill RK after a public stunt. RK asks Madhu to marry him which she accepts. Rude and egotistical, RK becomes hell-bent on ruining Madhubala’s life and tries to insult her in any way he can but is possessive of her.
Eventually, things turn normal and Madhu falls in love with RK. RK's half-brother Sikandar Bhatia's wife Deepali, who is in fact RK's ex-girlfriend had married Sikandar as he was being launched in a big-budgeted film and RK was a struggling actor at that time. She wants Madhu to leave RK but in vain.
Shamsher is determined to kill RK who had forcefully kept Madhu captive at his home. Unaware of the changed scenario, he shoots RK who is saved by Madhu as she donates blood to him. She witnesses a big change in her feelings for RK who too develops a soft corner for Madhu and is no longer rude to her. She brings a lot of changes in RK’s life like she restores his faith in God and his relationship with his mother.
Madhu teaches RK many other lessons of life and everyone is thankful to her for this. They confess their love. RK helps Padmini and Shamsher in getting married and even when Balraj abducts all but is shot to death by Padmini. RK asks Madhu to leave her family and come away with him to lead a peaceful life because he needs a break and wants to spend his time with her.
Madhu blindly agrees and RK says he wants to marry her properly before leaving so that they can take their relationship forward. During the marriage, RK suddenly stops and tells he had never loved her; it was his plan to entangle her in his love and then destroy her life when he leaves her.
Devastated, Madhu decides to part her ways. Everyone is furious at RK for deserting Madhu and tries to convince him to bring her back as he is nothing without her but he doesn’t budge on his decision. Madhu gets a job as a hairstylist at RK’s film set. He is once again rude to her and adamant to make her leave, trying to play hard but she has answers.
RK regrets his decision to leave Madhu when he suspects her getting ahead with a mysterious man. He cannot stand the thought of Madhu with someone else and realizes his mistake; he decides to win her back and abducts her to forcefully make her live with him at his home. Earlier, Madhu not relents.
Later, Madhu decides to play along and this time she would leave RK with help from Sultan, the mystery man who RK assumes to be Madhu's lover. She wants to teach RK a lesson and make him realize the pain of a broken heart. He is unable to accept his feelings for Madhu. Wanting her plan to succeed, Madhu leaves saying she won't come back unless he confesses his love.
As per Madhu's expectations, RK confesses his love and proposes her in front of all. Madhu agrees and the preparation for the grand wedding begins. Just a few days before the wedding, Madhu realizes she cannot execute her plan because she loves RK and cannot leave him. Sultan wants Madhu to back off because he thinks that RK will kill Madhu when he learns her evil plan.
Madhu changes her mind and breaks Sultan's heart as he loves her too. Although heartbroken after learning Madhu’s plan, RK decides to leave all the bad memories behind, forgive Madhubala and then officially marry her. Sultan, who hates RK for taking away Madhu, seeks revenge. He discovers being RK’s half-brother and uses this as a device to humiliate him in public.
Sultan refers to RK as a bastard whose father Mohan had first married Meera who gave birth to Sultan. RK realizes Sultan is doing all this to win Madhu and accidentally kills him. He is sent to jail. Madhu finds out Sultan is alive and it was a plan to send RK to jail and take her away.
Sultan realizes RK wouldn’t so easily let Madhu go and now so on tortures her to get a divorce from RK and come to him in order to save him. Helpless, Madhu agrees. Enraged, RK refuses but later connects all dots and learns that it is Sultan who is behind all this drama and forcing Madhu to divorce him.
RK eventually kills Sultan with the police's help and saves Madhu. Due to his inability to shoot for movies owing to personal problems and slapping producer Amar Bahl, RK is banned from Bollywood and decides to produce his own film. Veteran director Mehul Chopra agrees to help him and chooses Madhu as the heroine but RK refuses and is actually fascinated by the idea of her being his heroine.
RK finds a heroine but is dissatisfied and vows not to pressurize Madhu to sign the film. On inauguration day, the heroine is rendered unable to attend the inaugural conference by Amar Bahl and RK's stepfather Kulbhushan Bhatia who hates him. Thinking that his career is over, RK is about to commit suicide when his assistant Bittu Sharma calls and informs him Madhu has stepped in as the heroine.
Super excited, RK appears as the leading actor of his film in front of media with Madhu who marks her entry into Bollywood. He confesses in front of all that he loves Madhu and thanks to her for becoming his heroine. RK’s aunt Paabo is told by a saint that Madhu is not right for him. Madhu is brainwashed by Paabo and made to perform some perilous religious tasks but later finds out it was all Paabo and Deepali’s plot to oust her from RK’s life.
Madhu refuses to leave RK. During shooting, RK gets injured and suffers paralysis. Madhu decides to take over and complete the movie. RK develops insecurity towards her due to her rising fame and being ignored by everyone because he is handicapped. Madhu becomes pregnant but RK doesn’t want a baby when he is going through a lot of trouble. This breaks Madhu’s heart and she is unhappy with his wishes.
The movie “Ishq Ek Junoon” becomes a superhit, bringing RK out of his financial and career problems. Due to stress, Madhu suffers a miscarriage and blames RK. He misunderstands her thought of becoming a superstar like him and tries his best to avert her mind from getting into the film industry. Later, everything gets all right and Madhu becomes a heroine like she was destined to be.
Enters RK's doppelganger Keval Ram Kushwaha alias KRK, who is hired by Kulbhushan to avenge all the insults RK had thrown at him. Kulbhushan wants KRK to steal away all RK’s money and render him bankrupt. KRK agrees to take RK’s place in need of money. He is a nobleman and decides to leave RK’s life when he realizes of separating him from Madhu.
KRK returns back to his hometown with prize money from RK for speaking up the truth and showing decency. Kulbhushan is arrested and sent to jail. Madhu is revealed to be pregnant once again and gives birth to a girl whom RK also names Madhubala. He prophesies that she will become a superstar like her parents.
Twenty years later
RK and Madhu are dead in the bomb blast. RK' mother escapes with RK and Madhu's infant 'Madhubala' and raises her without the shadow of cinema industry as it would become a threat for Junior Madhubala. Radha gets unwell and, Their grown-up daughter Madhubala looks like just Madhu and works for Abhay Kapoor who makes her fall in love with him. They announce their marriage, but Abhay gets Madhubala married to Raja, a mentally challenged and second look-alike of RK. Abhay reveals he wanted to avenge the death of his father Harshvardhan who committed suicide after being incriminated for killing RK and Madhu.
Raja turns out to be KRK's son and finally becomes a normal person. Due to his lifestyle of a gangster, Madhubala hates, insults and accuses him by crossing her all limits. She raises the question on his manhood. Angry, dejected and drunk, Raja gets doped and instigated by his brother-in-law who tells him to punish Madhubala for unnecessarily raising questions.
This leads to the raging Raja raping Madhubala who files a case against him and gets him jailed but withdraws it after some time. Raja’s aunt Baiji dies. Being in jail and unable to donate blood to save her life, he thinks Madhubala is responsible for it and begins hating and torturing her. It is revealed Raja's brother-in-law plotted this to take over the family property.
Madhubala gets pregnant with Raja's child and later requests him to forgive her which Raja does; they remarry and begin living separately from his family. Raja opens a garage to start earning a living. One night, a producer assumes him as RK and proposes to do a film with him that the producer had wanted to do with RK and Madhu.
Madhubala reads Madhu’s diary, learning that Madhu’s last wish was to make a film on her and RK’s life. Madhubala convinces Raja to sign the film; they start their career and appear as Madhu and RK, giving the first shot of their film. Raja states it is not the end but the beginning of a new life as they were always destined to live and be superstars together.
Cast
Main
- Drashti Dhami as
- Madhubala Kundra aka Madhu (née Malik/Chaudhary) – Padmini and Balraj's daughter, Shamsher Malik's adoptive daughter, Trishna's Yonger sister, RK's wife,Junior Madhubala's mother (2012–2014)
- Junior Madhubala Kushwala (née Kundra)– Madhubala and RK's daughter, Raja's wife (2014)
- Spandan Chaturvedi as Young Madhubala Kundra (2014)
- Vivian Dsena as
- Rishabh Kundra aka RK – Radha and Mohan's son, Sultan and Sikandar's half-brother, Madhu's husband, Junior Madhubala's father (2012–2014)
- Keval Ram Kushwaha aka KRK – Jugnu's brother, Kulbhushan's accomplice, Raja’s father (2013–2014)
- Raja Kushwaha /Raj Kumar aka Raju – KRK's son, Junior Madhubala's husband (2014)
Recurring
- Pallavi Purohit as Padmini Malik/Chaudhary– Balraj's ex-wife, Madhu and Trishna's mother, Shamsher's wife, Junior Madhubala's maternal grandmother
- Aarti Puri as Trishna Malik/Chaudhary– Padmini and Balraj's daughter, Shamsher Malik's adoptive daughter, Madhu's elder sister, Junior Madhubala's sororal aunt
- Rakhee Tandon as Roma Malik– Shamsher's sister, Madhu and Trishna's adoptive aunt
- Bhupinder Singh as Shamsher Malik– Roma's brother, Padmini's second husband, Madhu and Trishna's adoptive father
- Shama Deshpande as Radha Upadhyay– Mohan's widowed/second wife, Kulbhushan's wife, RK and Sikandar's mother, Junior Madhubala's paternal grandmother
- Indresh Malik as Bittu Sharma– RK's personal secretary, Leela's husband, Junior Madhubala's uncle
- Raza Murad as Kulbhushan Bhatia/ Kukku– Radha's second husband, Sikandar's father
- Sikandar Kharbanda as Sikandar Bhatia– Radha and Kulbhushan's son, RK's half-brother, Deepali's husband
- Seema Mishra as Deepali Singh– RK's ex-girlfriend, Sikandar's wife
- Navneet Nishan/Seema Kapoor as Pabbo– RK's paternal aunt
- Avinesh Rekhi as Sultan Kundra– Meera and Mohan's son, RK's half-brother, Madhu's obsessive lover
- Siddharth Vasudev as Bhujang Shastri
- Zarina Wahab as Meera Malik– Mohan's ex-wife, Sultan's mother
- Kannan Arunachalam as Rashid Baig– Mohan's ex-driver
- Raj Zutshi as Balraj Choudhary– Padmini's ex-husband, Madhu and Trishna's father, Junior Madhubala's maternal grandfather
- Shagufta Ali as Badi Chaudhrain
- Lalit Parimoo as Guruji
- Sushmita Mukherjee as Dai Maa
- Prashant Chawla as Sunny Sharma
- Swati Anand as Leelavati Agashey/ Leela– Bittu's wife
- Shweta Vyal/Tanvi Thakkar as Sweety Sharma
- Vaishnavi Dhanraj as Riya
- Manini Mishra as Ila Ramani - Journalist
- Usha Nadkarni as Sonali Devi– Mukund and Swati's mother
- Manish Naggdev as Mukund Dixit– Sonali's son; Swati’s brother; Madhu's ex-fiancé
- Ahsaas Channa as Swati Dixit– Sonali's daughter; Mukund's sister
- Anita Hassanandani as Sanya
- Vinay Apte as Shivdutt Marathe
- Neelu Kohli as Harjeet Kapoor– Harshvardhan and Umesh's mother; Abhay and Ananya's grandmother
- Arbaaz Ali Khan as Director Harshvardhan Kapoor– Harjeet's son; Umesh's brother; « Pam »'s husband; Abhay and Ananya's father
- Deepshikha Nagpal as « Pam »– Harshvardhan's wife; Abhay’s stepmother and Ananya's mother
- Puneet Sachdev as Nikhil Lamba– Ananya's husband
- Kishwer Merchant as Ananya Kapoor– Pam and Harshvardhan's daughter; Abhay's half-sister; Nikhil's wife
- Gunjan Utreja as Abhay Kapoor– Harshvardhan's son; Pam’s stepson ; Ananya's half-brother; Madhubala's ex-fiancé; Aisha's husband
- Rajesh Balwani as Umesh Kapoor– Harjeet's son; Harshvardhan's brother; Dolly's husband; Abhay and Ananya's paternal uncle
- Utkarsha Naik as Dolly Kaur Singh– Umesh's wife; Abhay and Ananya's paternal aunt
- Fenil Umrigar as Aisha Kapoor– Abhay's cousin
- Ravi Khanvilkar as Jugnesh Ram Kushwaha/ Jugnu– KRK's brother; Raja’s paternal uncle; Baiji's husband; Agni's father
- Shraddha Jaiswal as Agni Kushwaha– Baiji and Jugnu's daughter; Raja’s paternal cousin
- Shalini Arora/Jaya Bhattacharya as Baiji Devi– Jugnu's wife; Raja’s paternal aunt; Agni's mother
- Shital Thakkar as Tara
- Jaswant Menaria as Bhanu Pratap Singh
- Pooja Sahu as Faguni Kushwaha
- Neha Pendse as Ria
- Rajshri Rani as Deepika
- Sara Khan
- Toral Rasputra as Anandi
- Sanaya Irani as Parvati
- Dipika Kakar as Simar
- Radhika Madan as Ishani (to promote Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi
Broadcast
The show was in a controversy because of the title madhubala claiming that the show is based on the life of actress madhubala. The makers clarified that the show was not based on the late actress. The show has several versions including dubs and remakes in the following Indian languages and other languages:
| Sl.no | Language | Title | Network (s) | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamil | Madhubala Konjam Istham Konjam Kastham | Polimer TV | Dubbed |
| 2 | Telugu | Madhubala oo prema oo paga | Gemini TV | Dubbed |
| 3 | Malayalam | Madhubala | Surya TV | Dubbed |
| 4 | Kannada | Aswini Nakshatra | ETV Kannada | Remake |
| 5 | Arabic | Hayaat | Lana TV | Dubbed |
| 6 | Kurdish | Madhubala Ek Ishq Ek Shetty | Kurdmax TV | Dubbed |
| 7 | Pashto | Madhubala | Lemar TV | Dubbed |
| 8 | Bosnian | Madhubala | Hayat Plus Hayat TV | Dubbed |
| 9 | Serbian | Madhubala | Happy TV ATV | Dubbed |
| 10 | Kazhakstan | Madhubala | Astana TV | Dubbed |
| 11 | Urdu | Madhubala | Urdu1 | Dubbed |
| 12 | Pushto | Madhubala Yawa Meena Yaw Leewantub | Namar TV | Dubbed |
| 13 | Turkish | Yalanci Bahar | Kanal 7 | Dubbed |
| 14 | Thailand | Madhubala Mayaram | JKN TV | Dubbed |
| 15 | Vietnamese | Ten Em Hoa Don "Madhubala" | Style TV | Dubbed |
| 16 | Montaha Al-Ishq | Mbc Bollywood | Dubbed | |
| 17 | Armenian | Madhubala | Arm TV | Dubbed |
| 18 | Malaysia | Madhubala | Tara Hd | Dubbed |
| 19 | Madhubala | Slbl | Dubbed | |
| 20 | Indonesia | Madhubala | An TV | Dubbed |
| 21 | Pakistan | Madhubala | H TV | Dubbed |
| 22 | Arabic | Madhubala | Mbc drama | Dubbed |
| 23 | Dari | Madhubala | Tolo TV | Dubbed |
Music
The theme song "Hum Hai Deewane" and "Ishq Tu Hi Hai Mera" was composed by Shalin Sharma, while "Ishq Hai" was composed by Saurabh Kalsi. The songs were sung by Arijit Singh, Komal Rizvi and Saurabh Kalsi, the lyrics were done by Veebha Tiwari. Other type of music and backgrounds were composed by Ashish Rego.
| Sl.no | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hum Hai Deewane Male | Arijit Singh | 02:20 |
| 2 | Hum Hai Deewane Female | Komal Rizvi | 02:22 |
| 3 | Hum Hai Deewane Sad Male | Arijit Singh | 01:37 |
| 4 | Hum Hai Deewane Sad Female | 02:30 | |
| 5 | Ishq Tu Hi Hai Mera Male | 03:44 | |
| 6 | Ishq Tu Hi Hai Mera Female | Komal Rizvi | 02:13 |
| 7 | Ishq Hai Ishq Hai Male | Saurabh Kalsi | 01:46 |
| 8 | Hoslon se veer Hoon | Komal Rizvi | 01:00 |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | People's Choice Awards India[5] | Favourite New TV Drama | Madhubala — Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | Won |
| Indian Television Academy Awards[6] | Gr8! Performer of the Year | Vivian Dsena | Won | |
| 2013 | ||||
| Indian Telly Awards[7] | Actress in a Lead Role | Drashti Dhami | Nominated | |
| Actor in a Lead Role | Vivian Dsena | |||
| Actor in a Negative Role | Raj Zutshi | |||
| Actress in a Negative Role | Seema Mishra | |||
| Daily Serial | Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |||
| Drama Series | Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |||
| Best Jodi | Vivian Dsena and Drashti Dhami | Won | ||
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Pallavi Purohit | |||
| Show Packaging(Fiction) | Madhubala — Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |||
| Zee Gold Awards[8] | Best Actor(Jury) | Vivian Dsena |
References
- Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon
- Madhubala — Ek Ishq Ek Junoon Episode 648
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- "People's Choice Awards: Fan Favorites in Movies, TV, Music & Sports – PeoplesChoiceIndia.co". Peopleschoiceindia.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
- "IndianTelevisionAcademy.com". IndianTelevisionAcademy.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Narayan, Girija (23 July 2013). "Photos: 2013 Boroplus Gold Awards Winners List! – Oneindia Entertainment". Entertainment.oneindia.in.