Two years ago, when Madhuri Dixit got married film folks wondered how she would balance an overseas marriage and a career back home. Madhuri Dixit has proved that where there’s a will there is a way. After a lukewarm Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke, Dixit looks forward to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas and the much talked about TV show Shubh Vivah. A lot may have changed in Madhuri’s daily routine but a lot remains the same. You enter the apartment and are relieved to discover that unlike most upper class families, who treat their livingroom as a showcase of artefacts, Dixits’ make no attempt to disguise their domesticity. It’s a hot afternoon. Madhuri orders a chilled nimbu pani for both of us, switches off her mobile phone and we’re ready for serious conversation.

You can’t be in showbiz and not be visible – but that doesn’t apply to Madhuri Dixit. If she ruled the box office in her prime, the soaring TRPs of ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ now prove she is equally saleable when she is a mother of two and spends much of her time being a homemaker in the US. ‘We had been trying to get Madhuri as a judge for the past two seasons. She has been known as a dancing diva and who better could we have got for a show which is all about perfect dancing,’ Ajay Bhalwankar, programming head, Sony, told IANS.