Madhuri Dixit is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi movies. Often mentioned as one of the best stars in Bollywood

Early Life

Madhuri Dixit is a native of Mumbai, India. She was born on 15 May 1967. Her parents Madhuri Shankar Dixit and Snehlata Dixit, of a Marathi brahmin family. Dixit joined Divine Child High School and Mumbai University and studied to be a microbiologist. She is a trained Kathak dancer and a great admirer of it.

Personal Life

On 17 October 1999, Dixit married Shriram Madhav Nene, a UCLA-trained cardiovascular surgeon who practiced in Denver. Nene is also from a Marathi Brahmin family. They have two sons, Arin (born in March 2003) and Raayan (born in March 2005). After marriage, Dixit had relocated to Denver, US for almost a decade. In October 2011, Dixit again shifted her base back to Mumbai, India, along with her family.

Dixit has been the muse for the famous Indian painter M.F. Husain. He was so fascinated by Dixit in Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! that he watched the film 67 times, and in 2007 he booked an entire theatre to see her comeback movie Aaja Nachle He made a series of paintings of her, and in 2000 made a film named Gaja Gamini starring her, which was intended as a tribute to Dixit herself.

Madhuri is a passionate dancer, and to do her due for the society and her fans, she opened her online dance academy.

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Dixit made her movie first appearance in Abodh (1984) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab (1988). She went on to set up herself as one of Hindi cinema's major stars, recognized for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing.

Some of her continuing movies consist of such box-office hits as Ram Lakhan (1989),Tridev (1989), Parinda (1989) , Dil (1990), Saajan (1991), Try out (1992), Khalnayak (1993), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) and Raja (1995). After a relatively low stage, she reinvented herself with the romantic endeavors Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and consequently obtained crucial popularity for her perform in movies like Mrityudand (1997), Pukar (2000), Lajja (2001) and Devdas (2002). In 2002, she took a sabbatical from movies to be able to increase her kids and created a return with the musical Aaja Nachle in 2007. Dixit also judged two seasons of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa '.

Awards

• Dixit has won six Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress
• one for Best Supporting Actress
• One unique Filmfare prize for finishing 25 decades in Bollywood

She maintains the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations (13) at Filmfare. In 2008, she was granted the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest private prize by the Govt of India. She is wedded to Dr Shriram Chandra Nene, with whom she has two kids. The couple resided in the United States before moving to India in 2011