A couple of insignificant movies like 'Abodh' and 'Swati ' and critics wrote off this diva without a flitch. More movies of the like came with 'Uttar Dakshin', 'Wardi' and 'Khatro Ke Khiladi' but it was with 'Tezaab' and 'Ram Lakhan', that the country sat up and took notice of this young woman who was going to change the course of things to come on Indian Cinema.
None other than Madhuri Dixit, she went on to become the Nation’s favorite with some of the biggest hits of the 90’s. Together with Anil Kapoor, she gave some of her most memorable performances with 'Parinda', 'Jeevan Ek Sangarsh', 'Jamai Raja', 'Beta' and 'Zindagi Ek Jua'. Equally popular with her other costars, Madhuri has survived in the industry and has had the opportunity to romance not just Vinod Khanna in Dayavan' but even his son (Akshaye Khanna) when he came of age with ‘Mohabbat’.
A couple of bloopers came along the way with ‘Anjaam’, Prem Granth and ‘Rajkumar’. But taking it all in her stride she went on give further hits with 'Dil', 'Raja' and 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun' and 'Dil To Pagal Hai'.
Then came the highly acclaimed Devdas in 2002, where she created magic with her timeless role of Chandramukhi, the prostitute who falls in love with Devdas (Shahrukh Khan).
Married and settled abroad with two children today, Madhuri’s forthcoming movies include Somnath Sen’s untitled venture and Engineer.
YASH CHOPRA
With 40 years in the film making industry, Yash Chopra has carved a distinct identity for himself and the films he directs. The central theme of his movies being love, it attracts a universal audience. Therefore it comes as no surprise that Yash Chopra has created a strong foothold in an industry for as long as four decades.
Starting his career with his brother B.R. Chopra of the TV serial 'Mahabharat' fame, Yash Chopra soon started off under his own banner 'Yash Raj Films' in 1970. Since then we have been witness to the numerous films artistically crafted and implemented by the legend in movie making. A hint of this directorial superiority can be gauged by the huge fan following as well as the recognition received from those in the movie industry in the form of awards. Yash Chopra was born in 1932 in Lahore, to an accountant in the PWD of the British administration in Punjab.
The youngest of eight children, the oldest of whom was almost 30 years his senior, he was largely brought up in the Lahore house of his second brother, BR Chopra, then a film journalist, but subsequently one of India's great movie moghuls, known for his films on social topics, and later maker of the record-breaking TV serial, Mahabharata. Yash Chopra went to Jullunder in 1945 to continue his education while BR stayed on in Lahore, migrating to Bombay just weeks before partition in August 1947. A large part of the Lahore-based Punjabi film industry also migrated and BR used his contacts among these people to set himself up as a leading director in Bombay and soon became anindependent producer. He made some of the great classics of the Indian cinema, including Ek Hi Raasta, Naya Daur and Sadhana among others. He is known to a younger generation as the maker of the TV serialisation of the Mahabharata, whose place in the history oftelevision is assured. Yash Chopra soon joined him and worked as his assistant, while another brother, Dharam Chopra, worked as his cameraman.