| Genre: | Drama Romance |
| Channel: | Colors TV |
| Director: | Ravindra Gautam Amit D Malik Prasad bhagwan yadav Inder Das |
| Creative Director: | Yoma Shreshth |
| Country: | India |
| Producer: | Saurabh Tewari Abhinav Shukla Vishwankar Pathania |
| Cinematography: | Ganesh Sankla |
| Editor: | Rochak Ahuja |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 648 |
| Company: | Nautanki Films |
| Last Aired: | [1] |
Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon is an Indian television series that premiered on 28 May 2012[1] and ran until 9 August 2014,[2] It was produced to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema and aired on Colors TV Monday to Friday (later Saturday) evenings.[3]
Madhubala "Madhu" Choudhary was born on a film set and works in a parlour while 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 to Madhu and they get engaged. RK insinuates that Madhu is his girlfriend and humiliates Padmini and Shamsher's relationship, saying they have been having a secret affair for the last 20 years.
Mukund breaks off his engagement thinking Madhu has had 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 proposes to Madhu and 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 does not 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 will not 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 does not 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, Madhu gives birth to a girl whom RK also names Madhubala. He prophesies that she will become a superstar like her parents. Later Harshvardhan kapoor enters the frame who is a film producer wanted his son Abhay Kapoor to enter the film Industry he was also the producer of 1st film of Rk so Harshvardhan wanted RK's help to make his son Abhay entry into the bollywood film industry but he and his manager nikhil spoke in a rude way so rk wanted to teach a lesson to them by not acting in their film. So, Harshvardhan threatened him to "Burn Him Alive" because of the loss of his money and ruined career of his son Abhay kapoor. Pam and nikhil took this as a oppertunity to get rid of Harshvardhan Kapoor to get kapoor property and also to RK's property and RK mansion too. So, RK and Madhu, Kundra's, Bhatia's and Madhu's family dies in a bomb blast leaving RK's Radha and RK's daughter Jr.Madhu as they went outside for fresh air. RK and Madhu, family's death is planned by Pammi Harshvardhan kapoor and Nikhil Lamba; to avenge their insult from Harshvardhan and RK and also to trap and put Harshavardhan Kapoor in jail for killing Rk and Madhu and also for snatching Harshvardhan's, RK's property and RK Mansion. Radha escapes with baby Jr. Madhu and raises her away from movie industry and Mumbai but Jr. Madhu is interested in Studies along films, dance, music, dramas like her parents.
Jr. Madhubala is now grown-up and looks like Madhu. She lives with Radha and falls in love with Abhay Kapoor. In RK mansion now Abhay and Kapoor family are residing after the death of RK, Madhu, Kundra's and Bhatia's. They announce their marriage but he gets her married to Raja, RK's mentally challenged second lookalike who is KRK's son.
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 and also kills abhay kapoor for torturing madhu and him. 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 is not the end but the beginning of a new life as they were always destined to live and be superstars together.
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | People's Choice Awards India[4] | Favourite New TV Drama | Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |
| Indian Television Academy Awards[5] | Gr8 Performer of the Year | Vivian Dsena | ||
| 2013 | ||||
| Indian Telly Awards[6] | Actress in a Lead Role | Drashti Dhami | rowspan="6" | |
| 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" | ||
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Pallavi Purohit | |||
| Show Packaging(Fiction) | Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon | |||
| Zee Gold Awards[7] | Best Actor(Jury) | Vivian Dsena |