David wrote in his 1952 piece - “The story of India for the past ten years may be condensed as: the war, the movie boom, independence, and Madhubala.” While this may be a gross oversimplification, her grip over public imagination during a period when the subcontinent was going through a turmoil, says something about her star-power. In 1950, she starred with Dev Anand in one of her earliest films with him, called - wait for it - Madhubala! Over the past century, Indian actors have seen dizzying levels of stardom. But who else had a film named after them, in the prime of their careers? A piece in Film India, a magazine known not to mince their words, once wrote about her arrival on the sets of Mehboob Khan’s Amar, “With the time-conscious Madhubala reaching the studios at 9 a.m. sharp, Mehboob has to pass through the pain of going early with all his technicians. They all come yawning and wake up Dilip Kumar who sleeps in the studio these days to be in time for his heroine.”