How Mumtaz, once shunned by Shashi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Dharmendra, and ignored by actresses, became Bollywood’s ‘highest paid actress’

For those who measure an actor’s career by the number of hits, Mumtaz’s career properly began only in 1969 with Raj Khosla’s Do Raaste, after starting out as a lead actress in 1963. The golden jubilee hit provided validation to the utterly gorgeous beauty who had all the prerequisites of a Hindi film heroine — she could dance, act, and exude sensuality on the big screen, all at once.