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Biography ...
 About Madhuri
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- Real Name: Madhuri Shankar Dixit
- Date of Birth: 15.05.1967
- Place of Birth: Maharashtra, India
- Mailing Address: Vijaydeep,3rd Floor, Iris
Park, Juhu, Bombay 400049, India
- Height: 5'4" (1.63 m)
- Weight:112.2 lb (51 kg)
- Education : B.Sc ( microbiology )
- Family: Shankar Dixit(father), Snehlata
Dixit(mother), two sisters and a brother
- Petname: "Bubbly"
- Status : Married
- wedding : 17 Octuber 1999
- Husband's Name : Dr. Sriram Nene
- Zodiac Sign : Taurus
- First film : Abodh
- First hit film : Tezaab
 Madhuri's
Favourites ...
- Fav.
Hero (Indian) : Balraj Sahani
- Fav. Heroine (Indian) : Nargis
- Fav. Hero (Foreign) : Gregory Peck
- Fav. Heroine (Foreign) : I. Bergman
- Fav. film of all time Roman
Holiday
 Others
Favourites ...
- Five All-Time
Favourite Western Film:
1.Roman Holiday
2.Gone With The Wind
3.All About Eve
4.Non Voyager
5.Amadeus
- Five All-Time Favourite Hindi
Films:
1.Garam Hawa
2.Ganga Jamuna
3.Sholay
4.Padosan
5.Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
- Madhuri's Favourite Dance Numbers:
1.'Ek do teen...' -- Tezaab
2.'Gori ki chaal...' -- Sailaab
3.'Dhak dhak karne laga...' -- Beta
4.'Choli ke peechay kya hain...' -- Khalnayak
5.'Ankhiya milaye kabhi ankhiya churaye...' -- Raja
- All Time Favourite Dance Numbers:
1.Vyajyantimala -- Jewel Theif -- 'Hothon pe aisi baat...'
2.Sandhya -- Jal Bin Machli Nritra Bin Bijli -- 'Kajara lagake...'
3.Waheeda Rehman -- Neel Kamal
4.Padmini -- All her films
5.Helen -- Inteqaam
 More About
Madhuri
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- I love :
My parents, brother, sisters, nieces and nephews.
- I hate : Cockroaches!
- Im afraid of : Cockroaches!
- Im superstitious about :
Walking under the ladder.
- I get turned on by : Music -
soft and sentimental.
- My biggest fear : Of losing
people I love
- My strength : My family and
friends.
- My weakness : Animals (I hate
to see anybody hurting them).
- My sex-appeal : You tell me!!
- My wildest fantasy : That Im
tap-dancing with, Gene Kelly.
- My hero : God!
- My spice : Im cool man!!
- My favourite bedroom line :
"----------" (well, thats a line is it?)
- My biggest assets : My eyes
and smile.
- My passion : Acting.
- My greatest necessity : Clean
bathrooms!
- My favourite possession :
Memories, and all my fan mail.
- What tires me most :
Interviews!!
- What touches me most : My
clothes (Ha,Ha!)
 Additional
Facts:
- Wanted to
become a : pathologist.
- Favourite dental cream :
Colgate.
- Favourite shampoo : St. Aibes.
- Favourite
soap : Lux.
- Favourite
sport : Tennis
- Favourite
books : Quiver Full of Arrows
and Roots
- Loves to : sketch and
practise Kathak
- Loves to : live simply.
- Loves : Nina Ricci' perfumes.
- Loves : monsoon.
- Loves: reading comics.
- Is an : introvert.
- Believes in : God.
- Clothes : I prefer casual
clothes--jeans, loose shirt or salwar khamiz. For fomals -- sometimes
like a good ball gown.
- Obsession : My films, my work
- Food Habits : Favourites: Pohe
and other Maharashtrian dishes/backed, cheesy stuff. A few years ago,
she mentioned, "mum's green Masala Fish Curry".
- Fussy about: I hate oily stuff
and pungent food
- Do you diet? My dancing does
the dieting for me.
- What scares you the most?
Cockroaches
- Hate : Interviews, especially
if there is a string of them.
- Dream : Always pleasant dreams
-- no nightmares.
- Dream man : Sir Winston
Churchill: Orator, warrior, PM and writer
- Dream woman : Smt. Indira
Gandhi: power, wit, dignity
- Any one memory that doesn't leave
you : My first film! Abodh
- Your weakness : Chocolate--now
it's my strengh as I've given up eating them.
- The most outrageous pass made at
you : No one would dare
- You are possessive about :
Many things of no value to others, but priceless to me: things picked up
at fairs, photographs, knicks knacks.
- Cologne : Specially blended
for me by a French perfume house
- Your favorite pastime : Music,
all kinds, but music. Cassettes, CDs.
- Anything you particularly recall
about your struggling days : Almost everyone saying I'd never make
it at any level. One of whom was Meenakshi Sheshadri
- Music : What kind? Favourite
number: Group: A lot of country western, Uriah Heep, Simon and Garfunkel.
In Indian all from Kishori Amonkar to Bhimsen Joshi
- You are sentimental about : My
family
- Do you play practical jokes :
I love to. I have the most realistic replica of a snake. Nobody has
escaped the fright when I fling it at them.
- Family and family business :
Ours is a family that for generations has been in the manufacture of
electical thermal and later electronic machines--from ovens to control
panels to con soles.
- Favorite holiday resort : I'm
still discovering exotic places.
- You admire : Straight forwad
people who do not have different tongues for different people.
- Closest friend : I shall never
reveal her name for then it will kill her privacy.
- You believe in : Destiny
- Best compliment : M. F.
Hussain's decision on paint a series of me.
- Any pets? All animals,
especially cats
- Any colors you are crazy about :
Orange and all the autumnal shades
- You are booked in the industry
till : Till the day I decide to quit.
- The saddest moment in your life :
When our family cat, Sona, died after being with us for 15 years.
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