Madhuri Dixit Wiki, Age, Husband, Family, Caste, Biography & More

Biography/Wiki

She was born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit on 15 May 1967 (age 52; as in 2019) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her zodiac sign is Taurus. She is popularly called as Dhak-Dhak Girl. She got this name after the song Dhak Dhak Karne Laga from the film Beta released. She is also known as the Queen of Expressions. At the age of just 3, she started learning Kathak dance and is now a professional Kathak dancer. She joined the entertainment industry at a very young age and achieved huge success within a few years of her career beginning. In 2008, she was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Physical Appearance

She is well-known for her flawless beauty, stylish looks, and awesome face expressions. She is approximately 5’4’’ tall and weighs around 60 kg. Her figure measurement is 36-27-36. She has brown eyes and black hair.

Family, Caste & Husband

She was born in a middle-class Marathi Brahmin family to late Shankar Dixit and Snehlata Dixit. She has a brother Ajit Dixit and has two sisters Rupa Dixit and Bharati Dixit. She is Hindu by religion.

Earlier, there was a rumour that she was dating actor Anil Kapoor. She was in a relationship with famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.

On 17 October 1999, she got married to a cardiovascular surgeon Shriram Madhav Nene. The couple has two sons, Raayan Nene and Arin Nene.

Career

She did her schooling at Divine Child High School, Mumbai. After schooling, she was enrolled in Parle College, Mumbai for further studies, i.e. B.Sc. in Micro-Biology, but, she dropped out of college to work as a full-time actress. She then started her acting career in 1984 by playing the lead role of Gauri in the Bollywood film Abodh. She received her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1990 for the film Dil, in which she played the lead role of Madhu Mehra, opposite Aamir Khan. She also cast in a TV show in 1984, but the show did not go on air because it was considered not good enough. Apart from that, she did numerous hit films like Tezaab

(1988), Ram Lakhan (1989), Saajan (1991), Beta (1992), Khalnayak (1993), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994), Raja (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), etc.

In 2002, she hosted the TV show Kahin Na Kahin Koi Hai that was aired on Sony TV. She is also a good singer and sung several songs like Kaahe Chhed for film Devdas (2002), Soniye Mil Ja for film Aaja Nachle (2007), and Rangi Saari Gulaabi for film Gulaab Gang (2014).

She also judged some famous dance reality TV shows like Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (2010-2014), So You Think You Can Dance (2016), and Dance Deewane (2018).

In 2013, she started an online dance academy with the name, Dance with Madhuri.

Controversies

• In 1988, her kissing scene with Vinod Khanna for the film Dayavan was counted as one of the creepiest kissing scenes ever as he was 20 years elder to her. She has confessed that she should have rejected that entire scene altogether.

• She used to promote the Maggie product by saying that it is healthy for kids. But, in 2015, after the controversy of Maggie that MSG used in the high amount, she was badly criticized for it. A district court directed police for registering an FIR for this against her, Amitabh Bachchan.