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Our hearts go dhak dhak again

Hindustan Times | ByRoshmila Bhattacharya, Mumbai
Nov 21, 2010 02:19 PM IST

Madhuri Dixit is back in the city to judge a dance show and writer Roshmila Bhattacharya is transported back in time to when everyone was going 'Ek, do, teen...' with Mohini.

Madhuri Dixit is back in the city to judge a dance show and I'm transported back in time to when everyone was going

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'Ek, do, teen...

' with Mohini. The country was dancing to the tunes of this

Tezaab

charttopper but Madhuri privately admitted that having trained in classical dancing, she initially found it difficult to bend her limbs to the filmi

matka-jhatkas

that choreographer Saroj Khan gave her.

The song was filmed in 24 hours, from 10 am to 10 am, because director N Chandra had to dismantle the set. And it forged a bonding between Madhuri and Sarojji that is still as strong. Buzz is that talks are on with Sarojji to come on board as one of the co-judges of

Jhalak Dikhla Jaa

.

Saroj

ji

and Madhuri's partnership went on to give us more gems, from

Sailaab

’s sexy swinger,

Mujhko aaj kal…

to

Anjaam's

folksy

Chane ke khet...

, from

Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’s

! wedding

geet

,

Didi tera dewara deewana…

’ to

Khal Nayak's

controversial '

Choli ke peeche kya hai….

By the time

Choli

... came along in 1993, Madhuri had shrugged off her earlier inhibitions and was dancing with abandon. And when an activist moved court for a ban, her mentor-director Subhash Ghai defended his "innocent" song saying it had been inspired by a folk number and answered the question raised in the second line itself,

choli ke peeche dil hai

. Touche!

Interestingly, it was Subhash

ji

who after spotting Madhuri in Kashmir doing a bit role in the Rajesh Khanna starrer

Awara Baap

, offered her an item song in

Karma

. Sarojji choreographed it. And Madhuri’s karma was decided.

The showman saw the rushes, took the starlet who was dreaming of a career in microbiology under his wing, re-launched her with an eight-page ad campaign, cast her opposite his protégé Jackie Shroff in brother Ashok Ghai's

Uttar Dakshin

and then gave her his Lakhan in Ram Lakhan.

The first time I met Madhuri, she was filming

Tirchi topiwale...

from

Tridev

. She was painfully thin and boringly correct. She stonewalled sticky questions with studied answers. And when she went to give a shot, her mother fed me apples and oranges because I looked as frail as her and sparked off her maternal concern.

The last time we spoke, she was in Denver. Soon after

Devdas

, Madhuri had an American twang and was enjoying domesticity. I couldn’t think beyond

Kahe chhed mohe

… that Pandit Birju Maharaj had choregraphed. Madhuri admitted that she’d enjoyed putting her Kathak lessons to use.

Last Friday, Pamela Anderson did a

Dhak dhak…

in the Bigg Boss House. And the ratings shot up along with heart beats. Guess what would happen if the original moved to the Bollywood beat again. The cardiologists would have a field day!

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