The house of Dilip Kumar in Mohallah Khudad has recently been declared a cultural heritage. The ancestral houses of these legends are located within 300 to 400 meters from each other and are still intact. That’s right, the timeless beauty that is Madhubala (also known as the Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood and the Anarkali of the film, Mughal-i-Azam) parents are from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Īmong the men, three of the biggest stars of the Indian film industry, Dilip Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan and Raj Kapur all hail from different streets in the famous Qissa Khwani bazaar, the historic storytellers’ market in Peshawar. The Pakhtuns of Peshawar (and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in general) always took credit for producing Bollywood legends such as Dilip Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Raj Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Surinder Kapoor and Vinod Khanna.īut very few are aware that the most beautiful heroine that Bollywood has ever produced also has roots in the same province.
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