DOMINANCE

Madhuri

Family

Madhuri is the daughter of Mr. Shankar Rao Dixit and Mrs. Snehlata Dixit. She is said to be born on 15 May, 1964 however others claim that she was born three years later in 1967. She is the youngest of Mr and Mrs Dixits four children. Her brother, Mr. Ajit Dixit, is a physicist and a researcher in the Chicago area. One of her sisters (Mrs. Bharti Adkar) works in the San Fransisco bay area while the other sister (Roopa) is also in the US and lives in the Reston, VA. While her real name is Madhuri Shankar Dixit but her parents and friends lovingly call her Bubbly.

Education

Firstily Madhuri wanted to become a pathologist and was still at in Parle College, Bombay (studying Biology) when her very first film Abodh was made and released in 1984. Things looked bleak indeed for Madhuri as "the film was declared a disaster at the box-office," on her own admission. She was educated in a Convent and learnt eight years of Kathak.

Hit Movies

She has done over forty films and has got many hits. Many of them are just known for her outstanding dances and music like:.

Beta (Dhak dhak karne laga)
Khalnayak (Choli ke pichhe) this gave the Job Title of The Official Indian Belly Dancer
Tezaab (Ek do tin)
Anjaam (Chane ke khet mai)
Yaraana (Mera piya ghar aaya)
Sailaab

Over eleven films have been shot with Anil Kapoor and they do make a good team. A hit has been produced each year since Tezaab and in 1994, her movie Hum Aapke Hai Koun (HAHK) vertually broke all the box office records. Hum Aapke Hai Koun is considered the film of the century.

Jubilee Hit movies

Golden Jubilee

Tezaab (November 1988)
Ram Lakhan ( January 1989)
Tridev (July 1989)
Dil (June 1990)
Saajan (August 1991)
Beta (April 1992)
Khalnayak (August 1993)

Silver Jubilee

Prem Pratigyaa ( May 1989 )
Mujrim ( July 1989 )
Kishan Kanhaiyaa (March 1990 )
Izzatdaar ( March 1990 )

100 day runs

Parinda ( November 1989 )
Thanedaar ( December 1990 )
Pyaar Ka Devtaa ( January 1991)
100 days ( May 1991)
Prahaar ( November 1991)

Other movies

Yash Chopra's Maine Mohabbat Kar Li with Shah Rukh Khan.
Rajib (Chimpoo) Kapoor's Prem Granth with Rishi.
Arzoo with Akshay and Saif.
Mohabbatein with Sanjay Kapoor
Mahanata
Prem Pooja
Mrityu Dand
Ek do teen char... The hits keep piling up. Madhuri is Queen Midas. Anything with her face on it sells. A smooth operator in every sense, she likes to work with younger heroes like Sanjay Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna or Salman Khan.
Awards
Madhuri won the Film Fare Award: BEST ACTRESS for her work in the film Hum Aapke Hai Koun in 1994. In 1995, she won the .................... for Raja. She is the only actress to make equal, if not more, money then her male co-actors. She is the current Queen of Bollywood, and who can argue with that. Bombay film trade acknowledged her as another Amitabh Bachchan. Every best actress award going was Madhuri's. No heroine, in recent times, has got her act together on the silver screen the way Madhuri Dixit has done.
Competition
Madhuri, by contrast, has no real competition today. She has style and without it, Madhuri couldn't have taken over from Sridevi in such a way. There was a brief spell when she looked to be threatened by Juhi Chawla.Would Juhi Chawla have got as near her if it wasn't for Hum Aapke Hain Koun? Would the path have opened for even Madhuri the way it has done today? This questions would remain unanswered. In the commercial circuit, Madhuri is being spoken of in the same breath as Hema Malini once was. Such was Hema's dominance that Sridevi's initial years were spent in seeing this megastar off.
Hard Work
Madhuri has come a long way. As the tide turned for her with Hum Aapke Hain Koun (the film in which she sported that Rs. 15 lakh worth sari), Madhuri noted: "The attitudes and opinions of people changed, the way they looked at me changed, but I refused to change. The only thing that changed in me was my determination. I was determined to be known as one of the best, even the best, among actresses." There is ample evidence by now to show that Madhuri Dixit is not only one of the better-looking but one of the better actresses. Yet Madhuri has been compared to Madhubala in looks."You have to be born with talent," Madhuri acknowledges. "But that talent has to be sharpened, chiselled, sculpted and given a shape." The same Rajshri people (who made her first movie Abodh) rediscovered her in Hum Aapke Hain Koun Madhuri had the great good luck of being spotted and groomed by a showman like Subhash Ghai "who taught me lessons I can never forget." Ghai's Ram Lakhan came as a remarkable hat-trick for Madhuri after Tezaab and Prem Pratiggya. Likewise, Ghai's Khal-Nayak signalled a double hat-trick for her in the wake of Dil and Beta. Such is Madhuri's aura today that she puts in the shade even the hero playing Raja.
"Will success spoil Madhuri?
To that Madhuri's counter is: "I am not crazy about fame, about money, about being the number one." "My happiest moment will be when I am recognised as a great actress. They say I am 'the lady Amitabh Bachchan,' that I am the only female star who can carry a film. I listen to all this. It sounds nice. But I refuse I repeat, refuse to let any talk like that go to my head. But the entire conduct of her career has been such that one believes when she says she is sighting the real peak only now.
Pluses and Minuses

Madhuri has an atrocious dress sense. Her beaded blouses and embroidered outfits are every nautanki goer's delight. Another disfavourable sign in Madhuri's favour is her so-called manipulative nature. Dixit's image took a real battering when she dropped lover Sunjay Dutt in the early days. A lot of falk has been flung by her show organisers too, when she threw her weight around and made unreasonable demands. A true beliver of God, she loves to live simply and isn't seen out much during the night. During her leasure hours she likes to sketch and practise Kathak or play tennis. Madhuri Dixit is a versatile actress in India. She, no doubt, is the best Indian Actress ever to his the Bollywood, in anyones opinion. She's still the undisputed queen of Bollywood.
Other Information

Address:	Vijaydeep, 3rd Floor
	Iris Park, Juhu
	Mumbai 400 049
Realname:	Madhuri Shankar Dixit
Date of Birth:	15 May 1967
Place of Birth:	Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Height:	5'4" (1.63 m)
Weight:	112.2 lb (51 kg)
Measures:	-

Family:	Her father is Shankar, her mother Snehlata Dixit
	Two sisters and a brother
Petname:	"Bubbly"
Hobbies:	Music
Comments:	-
Awards:	Nominated for Filmfare Award 1989 for TEZAAB
	Nominated for Filmfare Award 1990 for PREM PRATIGYA
	Filmfare Award 1991 for DIL
	Filmfare BEST ACTRESS Award 1993 for BETA
	Fimfare BEST ACTRESS Award 1995 for HAHK
	Zee Lux Cine Awards BEST ACTRESS 1997 for DTPH
	Screen Videocon BEST ACTRESS Award 1996 for Raja

Movies

FILMOGRAPHY (most probably NOT complete / includes unreleased movies as well)


1984  ABODH                          Madhuri Dixit, Topas Paul
1985  AWARA BAAP                     Rajesh Khanna, Meenakshi Seshadri, Rajan Sippy
1986  SWATI                          Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Madhuri Dixit
1987  HIFAZAT                        Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Ashok Kumar
      MOHRE                          Madhuri Dixit, Jeetendra
      UTTAR DAKSHIN                  Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff, Rajnikant
1988  DAYAVAN                        Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Feroz Khan
      ILAAKA                         Mithun Chakraborty, Sunjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit
      KHATRON KE KHILADI             Madhuri Dixit, Sunjay Dutt, Dharmendra
      TEZAAB - A VIOLENT LOVE STORY  Anil Kapoor, Chunky Pandey, Madhuri Dixit
1989  KANOON APNA APNA               Dilip Kumar, Nutan, Sanjay Dutt
      MUJRIM                         Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty
      PAAP KA ANT                    Madhuri Dixit, Govinda, Anupam Kher
      PARINDA                        Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit
      PREM PRATIGYA                  Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty, Vinod Mehra
      RAM LAKHAN                     Raakhee, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor
      TRIDEV                         Madhuri Dixit, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff
      VARDI                          Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Kimi Katkar
1990  DEEWANA MUJH SA NAHIN          Aamir Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Khushboo
      DIL                            Aamir Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Saeed Jaffery
      IZZATDAAR                      Dilip Kumar, Govinda, Madhuri Dixit
      JAMAI RAJA                     Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Hema Malini
      KHILAAF                        Madhuri Dixit, Chunky Pandey, Mahesh Anand
      KISHEN KANHAIYA                Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor (double role)
      MAHASANGRAM                    Govinda, Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit
      PYAR KA DEVATA                 Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty
      SAILAAB                        Madhuri Dixit, Aditya Panscholi
      THANEDAAR                      Jeetendra, Jaya Pradha, Sanjay Dutt
1991  100 DAYS                       Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Javed Jaffery
      PRAHAAR                        Nana Patekar, Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia
      PRATIKAR                       Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Paresh Rawal
      SAAJAN                         Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Sunjay Dutt
1992  BETA                           Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Aruna Irani
      DHARAVI                        Madhuri Dixit, (guest app.) Anil Kapoor, Shabana Azmi
      JEEVAN EK SANGHURSH            Rakhee, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit
      KHEL                           Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher
      PREM DEEWANE                   Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff
      SANGEET                        Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff
      ZINDAGI EK JUAA                Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor
1993  AANSOO BANE ANGAARAY           Jeetendra, Madhuri Dixit, Deepak Tijori
      DIL TERA AASHIQ                Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Kader Khan
      KHAL NAYAK                     Madhuri Dixit, Sunjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff
      PHOOL                          Sunil Dutt, Kumar Gaurav, Madhuri Dixit
      SAHIBAAN                       Rishi Kapoor, Sunjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit
1994  ANJAAM                         Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Tinnu Anand
      HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN..! (HAHK)  Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Mohnish Behl
1995  PAAPI DEVTA                    Madhuri Dixit
      RAJA                           Sanjay Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Mukesh Khanna
      YARAANA                        Madhuri Dixit, Rishi Kapoor, Raj Babbar
1996  PREM GRANTH                    Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher
      RAJKUMAR                       Naseeruddin Shah, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit
1997  DIL TO PAGAL HAI               Shah Rukh Khan (Rahul), Madhuri Dixit (Pooja)
      KOYLA - INFERNO OF LOVE AND R  Shah Rukh Khan (Shankar), Madhuri Dixit (Gauri
      MAHANTA                        Sunjay Dutt, Jeetendra, Madhuri Dixit
      MOHABBAT - WHEN LOVE SPEAKS .  Sanjay Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Madhuri Dixit
      MRITYUDAND                     Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan
1998  BADE MIYAN CHOTE MIYAN         Amitabh Bachchan (double role), Govinda (double role)
      WAJOOD                         Nana Patekar, Mukul Dev, Madhuri Dixit
1999  AAP HAIN MERE SANAM / HUM AAP  Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan
      AARZOO - TRUE LOVE ALWAYS COM  Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Saif Ali Khan
      ENJINEER / ENGINEER            Arvind Swamy, Madhuri Dixit
      GAJAGAMINI                     Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi
      PUKAAR                         Anil Kapoor, Namrata Shirodkar, Madhuri Dixit
      RISHTAA                        Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Madhuri Dixit
      SHIKAR                         Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit
      YEH RASTA HAI KYAR KA          Madhuri Dixit, Ajay Devgan
      ZAMEEN                         Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor