Next morning, most of them leave by the morning flight only Madhuri Dixit is departing by the afternoon flight. Her manager Rakesh Nath has booked me on the same flight, so that I can chat with her on the journey back home. At the airport, I notice that while women openly display affection towards her, men are restrained. Her male colleagues maintained a distance at the concert as well and I wonder if it has got to do with her personality or her success. informal. I ask her if she senses discomfort in them taking instructions from her and Madhuri looks surprised, ‘I don’t think so because when we are doing a show, all of us work as a family, we spend so much time together travelling and later during rehearsals together that ego is the last thing on our minds’.
She is naturally uncomplicated and intuitively mature, has always been, even when she was a rank newcomer. In her long career of many highs and few lows, she never gave boastful interviews, was never undignified in conduct. Her heroes never accused her of stealing scenes and her filmmakers never complained against her work.
Success never went to her head and she never flaunted her jubilees like other artists. When she got married, she took a break but she made frequent trips to India to honour all her commitments. Her life was transforming and unknowingly, Madhuri was changing too. Those close to her made observations and strangers asked her question point blank. When I broach the topic Madhuri flashes her famous smile and says, ‘You know everybody keeps asking me that but I feel the same person. There is a possibility that the change is in them, in their perception of me. The only difference I see in myself today is that I’m more receptive now because I’m not racing against time’.
To be continued…#MadhuriDixit #RakeshNath #ReshmaShetty #Bollywood #DhakDhak # EkDoTeen