Madhuri Dixit looks out of the window staring at the clouds. There is a quietude about her and I’m surprised when she elaborates on Dr Nene on her own. ‘Both of us like outdoor sports and we recently enrolled in an elementary class for Skiing. He doesn’t need coaching but joined only to give me company. The instructor was amused! I kept falling on the snow again and again but learnt to fall without hurting myself and rise on my own again. It’s a great lesson and applies to life as well. My parents raised us to give our best shot in whatever we do. I was focused in studies, in dance and later in films. In the beginning/ Abodh they said I was too spontaneous, then they said I was too simple/ Prem Pratigyaa but success adds glamour/ Khalnayak and soon my detractors were silenced’.
Main stream cinema will forever remember Madhur Dixit pre and post Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun because no other heroine has come close to her phenomenal success. Currently signed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali to play Chandramukhi in Devdas, Madhuri says she loved Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and is privileged to be cast in the classic, privileged to be a part of MF Hussain’s Gajagamini and looks forward to be paired with Salman and Shah Rukh Khan in Bokadia’s next but is not signing anymore films currently because she is also committed to live shows ‘and in between, whatever time I get I want to run home to Los Angeles’. I notice that she refers to LA as her home and remind her of the time when every man she was spotted with was a potential suitable boy to which she adds, ‘Today, every man I’m spotted with is assumed to be Dr Nene’.Concluded