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{{short description|2012 Indian television series}}
{{EngvarB|date=May 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Not to be confused with||Madhubala}}{{infobox television
| name         = Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon
| image             = Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon.jpg
| caption           = <!--Please don't use a caption for an obvious title card. See Template:Infobox television instructions-->
| genre             = [[Drama]] <br> [[Romance film|Romance]]
| channel           = [[Viacom 18|Colors TV]]
| director          = [[Ravindra Gautam]]<br>Amit D Malik<br>Prasad <br>bhagwan yadav<br>Devashish Dhar
| creative_director = Yoma Shreshth
| writer            = {{plainlist|
*Saurabh Tewari
*Abhishek Kumar
*Nishikant Roy
*Janaki V
*Sharad Tripathi
*Gautam Hegde
}}
| picture_format    = {{plainlist|
*[[576i]] [[SDTV]]
*[[1080i]] [[HDTV]]
}}
| country           = [[India]]
| producer          = [[Saurabh Tewari]] <br> Abhinav Shukla <br> Vishwankar Pathania 
| starring          = [[Vivian Dsena]]<br>[[Drashti Dhami]]
| cinematography    = [[Ganesh Sankla]]
| editor            = [[Rochak Ahuja]]
| language          = [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]]
| camera            =
| num_seasons       = 1
| num_episodes      = 648<ref name=voot/>
| company           = Nautanki Films
| first_aired       = {{start date|df=yes|2012|5|28}}<ref name=voot/>
| last_aired        = {{end date|df=yes|2014|8|9}}<ref name="voot">{{Cite web|url=https://www.voot.com/public_html/index.html|title=Garage page|website=www.voot.com}}</ref>
| website           = http://colors.in.com/in/shows/madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon-3485.html
| website_title     = Official website
}}

'''''Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon''''' ({{Translation|Madhubala — A love, a passion}}) is an Indian television series that premiered on 28 May 2012<ref name="voot"/> and ran through until 9 August 2014,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/tvtags/colors/madhubala-end-july-12 |title=Madhubala to end |publisher=PinkVilla |date=13 June 2014}}</ref> Produced to celebrate 100 years of [[Indian cinema]], it aired on [[Colors TV]] Monday to Friday (later Saturday) evenings.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adgully.com/colors-launches-its-new-show-madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon-50218.html |title=COLORS launches its new show "Madhubala...Ek Ishq, Ek Junoon" |publisher=AdGully |date=22 May 2012}}</ref>

==Plot==

Madhubala "Madhu" Choudhary was born on a film set and works in a parlour; her family members are junior artists in the Mumbai film industry. She fights a case of hit and run on behalf of Mukund against Bollywood superstar Rishabh Kundra "RK" who gets jailed. Mukund proposes Madhu and they get engaged. RK insinuates that Madhu is his girlfriend and humiliates Padmini and Shamsher's relationship, saying they're having a secret affair for last 20 years.

Mukund breaks off his engagement thinking Madhu has an affair with RK. She slaps RK who puts forward an offer for Shamsher's treatment as he was badly beaten up on RK's set. RK asks Madhu to marry him which she accepts. Rude and egotistical, he becomes hell-bent on ruining her life. Eventually, Madhu begins falling for him. Sikandar's wife Deepali wants her to leave RK but in vain. Shamsher shoots RK; Madhu donates her blood to save him.

No longer rude to Madhu, RK begins loving her. She restores his relation with Radha. The two confess their love; RK helps Padmini and Shamsher in getting married. Balraj abducts all but is shot to death by Padmini. RK needs a break and says he wants to marry Madhu properly so they can take their marriage forward. But suddenly, he tells he'd never loved her; it was his plan to entangle her in his love and then destroy her life when he leaves her.

Devastated, Madhu moves on. Everyone convinces RK to bring her back but he doesn't budge on his decision. Madhu gets a job as a hairstylist at RK's film set. He is again rude to her and adamant to make her leave. Later he decides to win her back and abducts her to forcefully live with her at his home. Earlier, Madhu not relents. Enters Sultan. Madhu leaves saying she won't come back unless RK confesses his love. He finally proposes her, and they unite.

The preparation for grand wedding begins. Sultan falls in love with Madhu, and is now vengeful on RK. Being his half-brother, he uses this to humiliate him. Sultan refers to RK as a bastard as Mohan firstly married Meera. Sultan fakes his death and RK is jailed, until Madhu learns the truth.
Sultan asks her to divorce RK and come to him to save him. Helpless, Madhu agrees. Enraged, RK uncovers Sultan's deeds and eventually kills Sultan with the police to save Madhu.

Due to some reasons, RK is banned from Bollywood and plans to produce his own film. To help him, veteran director Mehul Chopra selects Madhu as the heroine but RK refuses and is actually fascinated by idea of her being heroine.
RK finds a heroine but is dissatisfied and vows not to pressurize Madhu to sign the film. Thinking his career is over, RK is about to commit suicide when his assistant Bittu informs him Madhu has stepped in as the heroine.

Super excited, RK appears as the lead of his film in front of media with Madhu who marks her entry into Bollywood. He confesses that he loves and thanks Madhu for becoming his heroine. After sometime during shooting, RK is injured and suffers paralysis. Madhu decides to finish the film. RK develops insecurity to her due to her rising fame and being ignored by everyone because he is handicapped. Madhu gets pregnant but RK doesn't want a baby, breaking her heart. 

The film "Ishq Ek Junoon" becomes a superhit, with RK out of his problems. Madhu miscarries and blames him who tries his best to avert her mind from getting into film industry. Later, Madhu turns a heroine like she was destined to be. RK's look-alike KRK is introduced, hired by Kulbhushan for revenge for RK. KRK agrees to take RK's place in need of money but leaves his life when he realizes of separating him from Madhu.

KRK returns to his hometown with prize money from RK for speaking up the truth and showing decency. Kulbhushan is arrested. Pregnant once again, he gives birth to a girl whom RK also names Madhubala. He prophesies that she will become a superstar like her parents.

===20 years later===

RK and Madhu died in the bomb blast. Radha escaped with and raised infant 'Madhubala' without the shadow of cinema industry as it would become a threat for her. Madhubala is now grown-up and looks like Madhu. She falls in love with Abhay Kapoor. They announce their marriage but he gets her married to Raja, RK's mentally challenged second lookalike.

Abhay reveals he wanted to avenge death of his father Harsh Vardhan who committed suicide after being incriminated for killing RK and Madhu. Actually KRK's son, Raja finally becomes a normal person. Due to his life of a gangster, Madhubala hates and insults him. Angry, Raja rapes her. She files a case and gets him jailed but withdraws it later. 

Baiji dies. Being jailed, Raja thinks Madhubala is the reason for it and begins hating and torturing her. Pregnant with his child, she later requests him to forgive her which Raja does. They remarry. One night, a producer assumes Raja 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 her last wish was to make a film on her and RK's life. She 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's 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 (Madhu): Balraj and Padmini's daughter; Shamsher's step-daughter; Trishna's half-sister; RK's wife; Junior Madhubala's mother (2012–2014)
* [[Vivian Dsena]] as Rishabh Kundra (RK): Mohan and Radha's son; Meera and Kulbhushan's step-son; Sultan and Sikandar's half-brother; Madhu's husband; Junior Madhubala's father (2012–2014)
* [[Vivian Dsena]] as Keval Ram Kushwaha (KRK): Jugnu's brother; Kulbhushan's accomplice; Raja's father (2013–2014)
* [[Drashti Dhami]] as Junior Madhubala Kushwaha: RK and Madhu's daughter; Raja's wife (2014)
** [[Spandan Chaturvedi]] as Child Junior Madhubala (2014)
* [[Vivian Dsena]] as Raja Kushwaha (Raju): KRK's son; Junior Madhubala's husband (2014)

===Recurring===
* [[Pallavi Purohit]] as Padmini Malik: Balraj's ex-wife; Madhu's mother; Trishna's step-mother; Shamsher's wife (2012–2013)
* [[Aarti Puri]] as Trishna Chaudhary: Balraj and his first wife's daughter; Padmini's step-daughter; Shamsher's adoptive daughter; Madhu's half-sister (2012–2013)
* [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhi Vijan]] as Roma Malik: Shamsher's sister (2012–2013)
* [[Bhupinder Singh (actor)|Bhupinder Singh]] as Shamsher Malik: Roma's brother; Padmini's second husband; Madhu's guardian and step-father; Trishna's adoptive father (2012–2013)
* Shama Deshpande as Radha Bhatia: Mohan's former second wife; Sultan's step-mother; Kulbhushan's wife; RK and Sikandar's mother (2012–2014)
* Indresh Malik as Bittu Sharma: RK's personal secretary; Leela's husband; Sunny's father (2012–2014)
* [[Raza Murad]] as Kulbhushan Bhatia (Kukku): Radha's second husband; RK's step-father; Sikandar's father (2012–2014)
* [[Sikandar Kharbanda]] as Sikandar Bhatia: Kulbhushan and Radha's son; RK's half-brother; Mohan's step-son; Deepali's husband
* Seema Mishra as Deepali Bhatia: RK's former girlfriend; Sikandar's wife
* [[Navneet Nishan]]/Seema Kapoor as Paabo Kundra: Mohan's sister
* [[Avinesh Rekhi]] as Sultan Kundra: Mohan and Meera's son; Radha's step-son; RK's half-brother; Asmita's widower; Aryan's father; Madhu's obsessive lover (2012–2013)
* [[Siddharth Vasudev]] as Bhujang Shastri
* [[Zarina Wahab]] as Meera Kundra: Mohan's former first wife; Sultan's mother; RK's step-mother
* Kannan Arunachalam as Rashid Baig: Mohan's driver
* [[Raj Zutshi]] as Balraj Choudhary: Shobha's son; Padmini's former husband; Trishna and Madhu's father (2012–2013)
* [[Shagufta Ali]] as Shobha Choudhary (Badi Choudhrain): Balraj's mother (2012)
* [[Lalit Parimoo]] as Hansmukh Ram Naigatre (Guruji) (2012)
* [[Sushmita Mukherjee]] as Dai Maa (2012)
* [[Prashant Chawla]] as Sunny Sharma: Bittu and Leela's son; Junior Madhubala's friend (2014)
* Swati Anand as Leelavati Sharma (Leela): Bittu's wife; Sunny's mother (2013–2014)
* Shweta Vyal/[[Tanvi Thakkar]] as Sweety Sharma
* [[Vaishnavi Dhanraj]] as Riya Arkalesh
* [[Manini Mishra]] as Journalist Ilana "Ila" Ramani
* [[Usha Nadkarni]] as Sonali Dixit: Mukund and Swati's mother (2012)
* [[Manish Naggdev]] as Mukund Dixit: Sonali's son; Swati's brother; Madhu's ex-fiancé (2012)
* [[Ahsaas Channa]] as Swati Dixit: Sonali's daughter; Mukund's sister (2012)
* [[Anita Hassanandani]] as Sanya Nair
* [[Vinay Apte]] as Shivdutt Marathe 
* [[Neelu Kohli]] as Harjeet Kapoor: Harsh Vardhan and Umesh's mother
* [[Arbaaz Ali Khan]] as [[Film director|Director]] Harsh Vardhan Kapoor: Harjeet's son; Umesh's brother; Pammi's husband; Abhay and Ananya's father
* [[Deepshikha Nagpal]] as Pammi Kapoor (Pam): Harsh Vardhan's second wife; Abhay's stepmother; Ananya's mother
* Puneet Sachdev as Nikhil Lamba: Ananya's husband
* [[Kishwer Merchant]] as Ananya Lamba: Harsh Vardhan and Pammi's daughter; Abhay's half-sister; Nikhil's wife
* Gunjan Utreja as Abhay Kapoor: Harshvardhan's son; Pammi's step-son; Ananya's half-brother; Junior Madhubala's ex-fiancé (2014)
* Rajesh Balwani as Umesh Kapoor: Harjeet's son; Harsh Vardhan's brother; Dolly's husband; Aisha's father
* [[Utkarsha Naik]] as Dolly Kapoor: Umesh's wife; Aisha's mother
* [[Fenil Umrigar]] as Aisha Kapoor: Umesh and Dolly's daughter
* Ravi Khanvilkar as Jugnesh Ram Kushwaha (Jugnu): KRK's brother; Baiji's husband; Agni's father
* Shraddha Jaiswal as Agni Kushwaha: Jugnu and Baiji's daughter
* [[Shalini Arora]]/[[Jaya Bhattacharya]] as Baiji Kushwaha: Jugnu's wife; 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 (actress, born 1989)|Sara Khan]]
* [[Tejasswi Prakash]] as Dhara
* [[Toral Rasputra]] as Anandi
* [[Sanaya Irani]] as Parvati
* [[Dipika Kakar]] as Simar
* [[Radhika Madan]] as Ishani (to promote ''[[Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi]]''
* [[Sidharth Shukla]] as Shiv

==Awards and nominations==

{| class="wikitable" 
|-
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Recipient
!Result
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| ''[[People's Choice Awards India]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://peopleschoiceindia.com/winners2012.php |title=People's Choice Awards: Fan Favorites in Movies, TV, Music & Sports – PeoplesChoiceIndia.co |publisher=Peopleschoiceindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225214759/https://peopleschoiceindia.com/winners2012.php |archive-date=25 February 2014 }}</ref>
| ''Favourite New TV Drama''
| ''Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon''
| {{Won}} 
|-
| ''[[Indian Television Academy Awards]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiantelevisionacademy.com/site/awards_hhita_details_new.php?year=2012 |title=IndianTelevisionAcademy.com |publisher=IndianTelevisionAcademy.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021114031/http://www.indiantelevisionacademy.com/site/awards_hhita_details_new.php?year=2012 |archive-date=21 October 2013 }}</ref>
| ''Gr8
 Performer of the Year''
| [[Vivian Dsena]]
|{{Won}} 
|-a
| rowspan="11" | 2013
|-
| rowspan="9" | ''[[Indian Telly Awards]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tellyawards.indiantelevision.com/y2k13/poll/winners.php |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425010425/http://tellyawards.indiantelevision.com/y2k13/poll/winners.php |archive-date=25 April 2015 }}</ref>
| ''Actress in a Lead Role''
| [[Drashti Dhami]]
| rowspan="6" {{Nom}}
|-
| ''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]]
| rowspan="4" {{Won}}
|-
| ''Actress in a Supporting Role''
| [[Pallavi Subhash Chandran|Pallavi Purohit]]
|-
| ''Show Packaging(Fiction)''
| ''Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon'' 
|-
| ''[[Zee Gold Awards]]''<ref>{{cite web |last=Narayan |first=Girija |url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/television/news/2013/2013-boroplus-gold-awards-2013-winners-list-115204.html |title=Photos: 2013 Boroplus Gold Awards Winners List! – Oneindia Entertainment |publisher=Entertainment.oneindia.in |date=23 July 2013}}</ref>
| ''Best Actor(Jury)''
| [[Vivian Dsena]]
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|2939026}}
*''[https://www.voot.com/shows/madhubala-ek-ishq-ek-junoon/1/365229 Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon]'' on [[Voot]]

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