Madhuri Dixit

Some Lesser Known Facts About Madhuri Dixit

• Does Madhuri Dixit smoke? : No

• Does Madhuri Dixit drink alcohol? : No

• Madhuri was born to a middle-class Marathi-Brahmin family.

• She started learning dance at the age of 3 and received many awards for her Kathak dance in her younger days.

  

• Very few people know that in 1984 she was actually cast in a TV Show, but it never went on air as it was considered not ‘Good Enough.’

  

• Though she was a top-line model in India before entering Bollywood, it took her 8 years to get a commercial breakthrough in the form of the film Tezaab (1988).

• Her song in the same film “Ek Do Teen” was a total chartbuster and is still considered among Bollywood classics.

• She was paid more fees than Salman Khan (approx. 3 Crore) for the film Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994).

  

• While Kargil war was going in Indo-Pak border, the Pakistani soldiers taunted Captain Batra saying, “If India handovers Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit to them, they will leave the place forever”. Captain Batra gave a fitting reply “Madhuri ji to busy hain, main aa jata hun”.

• Very few people know that Madhuri had a crush on Cricketer, Sunil Gavaskar. In an interview with India Today in 1995, Madhuri said- “I am mad for Sunil Gavaskar. He is too sexy. I want to run behind him and he even came in my dream.”

• The renowned painter, M.F. Hussain called her the most beautiful woman on earth and made a film called Gaja Gamini (2000), which he called as a tribute to her, in which she acted alongside Shah Rukh Khan.

  

• She met her husband Dr. Sriram Nene, a UCLA cardiovascular, through her brother.

• She wore a Ghaghra in the song “Kahe Ched Ched Mohe” in Devdas (2002) which weighed 30 kg.

  

• In 2014, she was appointed the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in India.

• She is the only Bollywood actress to have been nominated 13 times for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

• She is a passionate dancer, still practices Kathak dance thrice a week and has opened an online dance academy in 2013 called “Dance With Madhuri.”

• She has a fear of Cockroaches.

• She is trained in Taekwondo.

• If not an actress, she would have been a microbiologist or a pathologist.