Madhuri Dixit

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Madhuri Dixit or Madhuri Dixit Nene ( Hindi , माधुरी दीक्षित, Mādhurī Dīkṣit, born May 15, 1967 in Mumbai , Maharashtra ) is an Indian film actress .

Life

Madhuri Dixit is the daughter of an engineer and a musician. She got her first film role while studying biology at Parle College in Abodh in 1984 .

Dixit spends her time in India as well as in Los Angeles, since she met the American doctor Dr. Sriram Nene got married. She has two sons: their first son Arim (* 2003) and their second Ryan, who was born in March 2005. After her first child was born, she wanted to return to the film business, but her second pregnancy made it impossible. After the birth of her second child, she resumed her postponed film projects.

Madhuri Dixit was the muse and sometimes the model for the well-known Indian painter MF Husain . She also had a role in his film Gaja Gamini (2000). In Gulaab Gang , Madhuri sings the song Rangi Sari Gulaabi Chunariya for the first time with her mother Snehlata Dixit . In 2013 Madhuri founded the dance website Dance with Madhuri , where she teaches dance moves. From 2011 to 2014 Madhuri was a jury member of the dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa with Remo D'Souza , Karan Johar and Malaika Arora Khan, among others .

Career

Her first success was Tezaab in 1988 . Other films followed, with which she rose to Bollywood icon of the 1990s. In Dil (1990) she played an arrogant rich daughter who falls in love with a poor boy played by Aamir Khan . They flee together to live together. Dil became the highest grossing film of the year in India. Her greatest successes of this decade were Beta in 1992 and Khal Nayak in 1993. Her most successful film overall is Hum Aapke Hain Koun…! from 1994.

In 1997, she had the lead role in the highly successful film Dil To Pagal Hai - My heart goes crazy in the Yash Chopra directed. She embodied the dancer Pooja, who plays in a musical. The film won several awards. After all, in 2002 she made her last and most internationally recognized film, Devdas , alongside two of the big stars: Shah Rukh Khan and the former Miss World Aishwarya Rai . The film was shown as the first Indian Bollywood film at the Cannes International Film Festival . After the birth of their two sons, Dixit took a five-year hiatus. In 2007 she made her comeback and was in the Yash Raj Films Aaja Nachle - Come, dance with me, alongside Konkona Sen Sharma and Kunal Kapoor . She embodied the role of the choreographer Dia, who returns to her homeland after the death of her former teacher and takes over his dance school there. The film was a flop , but the song Aaja Nachle became a hit and is mostly played at weddings and parties. Until 2013, Madhuri Dixit was no longer on screen. She made two dance appearances in the films Bombay Talkies and Don't Let Your Luck Go . In 2014, two new films of her appeared at the beginning of the year. Her first film that year was Dedh Ishqiya , which is the sequel to Ishqiya , in which Vidya Balan starred. In the sequel, Dixit plays the rich widow Begum Para and Naseeruddin Shah and Huma Qureshi also star in the film. The crook Shekhar falls in love with Begum and wants to marry her. From a handful of men, Begum Para selects the most suitable one for her grand palace, which then represents the city. When Shekhar is not the chosen one, he hatches a plan. But someone thwarts his plan and kidnaps Begum. The film won over the critics, but not the audience. Her second film in 2014 was a women-oriented film. In Gulaab Gang , which is inspired by the Gulabi Gang , Juhi Chawla played a negative role. In Rajjo's role as leader of the gang, she has to assert herself against the corrupt politician Sumitra Devi in ​​order to fulfill her dream of a school in the village, as she was denied this opportunity due to her gender. When she got violent against Sumitra, she was sent to prison and taught the women to read there.

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

TV Shows

  • 1984: Bombay Meri Hai
  • 1985: Paying Guest
  • 2011-2014: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Movies

Awards

Madhuri Dixit won four Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and one award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in the film Devdas .

In 2011 she received the Filmfare Award for having worked in the film industry for 25 years.

Web links

Commons : Madhuri Dixit  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://dancewithmadhuri.com/
  2. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Dixit, Madhuri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dixit-Nene, Madhuri; Dixit, Madhuri Shankar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Mumbai , Maharashtra , India