Why Madhuri Dixit Overshadows Bucket List
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Why Madhuri Dixit Overshadows Bucket List

In the Marathi film Bucket List, Madhuri Dixit plays the sweet vahini from a regular upper-caste Maharashtrian Puneri neighbourhood. What happens when Bollywood’s most famous diva lands in an industry in the midst of a beautiful churn? Her stardom becomes a stumbling block.
Madhuri Dixit, the Woman of Middle-Class Dreams, and My Papa’s First Crush
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Madhuri Dixit, the Woman of Middle-Class Dreams, and My Papa’s First Crush

I have grown up on stories about my father’s not-so-secret childhood crush on Madhuri Dixit from the time when they were neighbours in Mumbai. As a child with a congenital heart condition, Papa had spent a large part of his childhood as the one-boy audience for her daily kathak practices. She didn’t know it, but Madhuri Dixit was making life a little bit bearable for an angry teenager.
The Man Behind the Madhuri Magic
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The Man Behind the Madhuri Magic

If you scan Madhuri Dixit’s photographs from the ’90s, you can spot Rikku Rakesh Nath lurking in the shadow like a protective angel. And in many ways, that’s what the man, who managed Madhuri Dixit’s career, really was.