IT has been quite a while since Madhuri Dixit pulled off a hit. Her last was Yash Chopra’s Dil To Pagal Hai, ajoint effort with two other superstars, Shahrukh Khan and Karishma Kapoor. And yet, she is reckoned as the brightest star on the Bollywood firmament.

She won countless admirers with her dazzling smile and set the screen on fire with her incredible dance moves. She has also won many awards in the best actress category. But, beneath all that razzle dazzle, lies a fire that quite often translates into a fiery performance on celluloid.

That's Madhuri Dixit in a nutshell.

Madhuri Dixit and Mehr (Jesia) Rampal took our breath away as they preened for Verve’s cameras. Aglow with new motherhood, the two enduring divas showed us why they leave the competition far, far behind.

"I have never thought of myself as a diva. A diva, to me, is someone who is very talented…and also very temperamental a person who has power and does not hesitate to use it. Come on, I am nothing like that. I am a very simple person"

No actress has been able to make a dent in Madhuri Dixit’s faithful fan following. Five years after Devdas, the US-based heroine returns to the silver screen to reclaim her share of the spotlight. Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena catches up with the star

No heroine, in recent times, has got her act together on the silver screen the way Madhuri Dixit has done. Girija Rajendran on the spell Madhuri Dixit casts on the audience.

The diva has left behind her life of fame and glory and taken refuge in domestic bliss. But a nation obsessed with her famous electric smile and the rhythm of her dance moves is yet to forget her. India has called Madhuri Dixit back once again, this time to confer the title of Padma Shri, and the lady returns for the first time since the release of her comeback film Aaja Nachle last November.

I have vowed never to make fun of Pandit Bindeshwar Bhalerao, the astrologer and his companion, his parrot, the parrot dressed in velvet green robes like a prince from some place in good old Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. And a beak which looked more royal than the crown of a prince.

Gloom was palpable in the posh offices of Mumbai’s gossip magazines on the evening of November 4. And even the most inventive, hard-hitting gossip writers wore crestfallen looks when Madhuri Dixit inflicted the bloodiest blow ever dealt by any superstar on them, when she made public her marriage to Dr Shriram Nene, a noted Los Angeles-based surgeon on October 17. The wedding which was performed according to simple Vedic rites took place before a select group that included her relatives and Rakesh Nath, her right hand man for twelve years.

Dubai: M.F. Husain, a self-confessed fan of actor Madhuri Dixit, has booked an entire show of her comeback film Aaja Nachle, which is releasing in theatres in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday. The film will be released in India on Friday.