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.

Among 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 ancestral houses of these legends are located within 300 to 400 meters from each other and are still intact. The house of Dilip Kumar in Mohallah Khudad has recently been declared a cultural heritage.

The house that belonged to Shah Rukh Khan’s father, Taj Mohammad Khan, is currently occupied by one of his cousins, Noor Jehan; Shah Rukh Khan visited this house twice in the 1970s. The haveli of Raj Kapoor near Asamai Gate was recently under dispute with the government wanting to declare it as a cultural heritage site.

Details of the exact location of her ancestral home, as that of Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan, are unknown.