madhuri became no 1 because of lack of competition. she ruled because of monopoly. if she had been an actress of today she would not have been so successful. she used media a lot. she used to give interviews & grace covers of filmi magazines every month!
RE:madhuri
by raju on Mar 20, 2007 05:52 AM
yes agree with u..others lk divya bharti wud hv been mch ahead of her..her dances were hits rather than her performances..and people here talking of HAHK,dil,beta,raja all r v ordinary movies any actress can perform...no big deal..she never utilized her talent in the right way and neither did her directors..she rejected gud films like astitva,khamoshi,agnisakshi just for those nautanki films like rajkumar,yarana,premgranth..she just wanted dance movies with al backless cholis and sexy costumes..and now again dance film of yash chopra who always exposes his heroines like in dil to pagal hai..otherwise she wud hv been in the films of intelligent directors like sanjay,madhur etc..anyways fans wont accept this..but i guess shes mch bttr than ash..but not really worth on no 1 no...thr r many more talented than her..sorry
RE:RE:madhuri
by gauri on Mar 21, 2007 05:07 PM
Madhuri had stiff competition during her times where the focus was on dancing, acting and emoting. You cant say that. Y didnt she act with ash in Devdas. Ash was at the pinnacle of her career in Devdas. Still many people loved Madhuri and what about Juhi, Kajol??? Arent they great actresses. You are saying as if Madhuri was 50 years old when Kajol, Karisma joined this industry. You have to note one think that atleast like today's top actresses she dint overexpose. She always believed in doing character roles, so man before criticising her take a look at what roles today's actresses are doing
RE:RE:RE:madhuri
by anju s n on Mar 21, 2007 05:39 PM
ofcourse todays actresses r bullshit except rani,preity,tabu,konkana,kareena (some films),urmila, but otherwise also maduri nvr did any different pwerful films..evn juhi is now trying doing differnt gr8 films.mads only took more dancing films..ash cant act bt her choice of films is mch bttr thn of madhuris..she did commercial but dint concentrate just on dance..she did try mistress,provoked,guru...thr r many more bttr actresses thn mads and that too in all departments..so shes not the godess..all her roles lk hahk,dilto pagal hai,yarana,were just very general roles any one can caryy them...and i bet still she wont try diff roles she wud just to stick to jhatak matak dancing roles...same in lajja,devdas,..really the golden gals like vyanjatimala,waheeda,nutan,sri,hema,jaya bacchan were all best and nvr exposed so mch as mads did in dayavan,raja,parinda,premgranth(showing only her back),yarana,khalnayak...all jst commerical entertainers ntg else..
RE:madhuri
by teesta bose on Apr 19, 2007 09:01 AM
but otherwise also maduri nvr did any different pwerful films...how powerful wud u say mrityudand was??? have u ever seen her bit role in prahaar (of crs without her backless choli dance moves and without make up as well)?? what wud u like to say abt parinda??? (maybe u'd just like to talk abt her love making scene)...pls do not forget bollywood churned out either dancing commercial flicks or complete art films at that point...there weren't these slick films being made for the multiplexes....madhuri stood out among them...by the way take some time off to watch her in LAJJA...in case that makes any sense to u(sorry...it doesnt have what u like and understand....backless cholis etc)...lol
RE:madhuri
by sunita motiani on Apr 22, 2007 10:34 PM
I agree, Madhuri has been amazing, is amazing & hope continues to be amazing. Whatever her age is, cant we compliment her on her work. Dont compare, but isin't her work it itself a great achievement. Which other actresses has such a variety of roles in her kity. And dont forget all her roles have been done justice to. She is too good for people to judge her. Wish U lots of luck Madhuri. Sunita
RE:madhuri
by Sandeep Gill on Apr 27, 2007 12:31 PM
Madhuri is jst amazing...no doubt about it...whether we see her against Karisma Kapoor in Dil to pagal hai or against aishwarya rai in Devdas she's been outstanding despite of the age differences .....she is that real indian beauty in true colours .....jst incomparable....i think people who criticise her are poor judgementals ..... Sandy
RE:madhuri
by harpreet on Sep 25, 2007 02:44 PM
how funny????? take eg. of devdas.... madhuri completely chewd ash in it .... madz was toooo good talk about dil to pagal hai.... karishma did'nt stand any where infront of her... mrityudand???? a legend like shabana azmi... was no were infront of her.... and u talk about compitition....... need more examples
RE:madhuri
by Rave on Mar 21, 2007 03:15 PM
Madhuri had a lack of competition did she? So are you saying that Sridevi, Kajol, Manisha Koirala, Karishma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Rani Mukherjee, Priety Zinta, ashwariya Rai (to name just a few of those around during the height of Madhuri mania)have no talent at all? All of them have done much better films and given much better performances than the actresses doing the rounds today, and would make much more worthy competition.
Surely only someone with little understanding of the film industry would suggest that the current 'top' actresses would be seen as competition to anyone. Do you really think that presence of Kareena, Priyanka, and the Arora sisters would have made any differene to Madhuri's career had they entered the industry at the same time.
And speaking of competition, Madhuri has never shyed away from appearing in films with her competition of all ages, e.g Manisha, Karishma and Priety...in fact it was Juhi Chawla who turned down Dil To Pagal Hai for fear of being compared.
Much accolades have been pored in to the recent Film Lageraho Munnbai on account that it promoted Gandhian principles and philosophy. Since our nation considering Gandhi as our father, everybody accepted the film whole-heartedly. No doubt it was a good movie, But I differ from the popular view that it promote Gandhian philosophy on the contrary it is Anti-Gandhian,
Generally there are two types of violence, one is violence towards foreign body another is violence towards own body. Majority people indulge in violence towards foreign body, their fight is against others%u2019 body, and they try to win over it. Sports also is a type of violence over foreign body collectively or individually and people get satisfied if they overcome the physical strength of others%u2019 body. Or they make some rules so that violence can be civilized. Other type of violence is towards own body, which certain sadhu%u2019s are indulging. Hurt own body and get pity from the other people. Both ways people enjoy violence. According to Osho Rajnish, Gandhi was in the second category, who indulged in violence against own body. A thief point dagger against a person and say give your wallet or I will Kill you. A Gandhian say, give my rights or I will kill myself. Both are violence in different form. Gandhi has used non-violence as a weapon and remember weapons are used only for violence and not for peace.
In the beginning the character Munnabai was a violent in the first category. He did dadagiri to earn his living. Then he fell in love. The feeling of love taken his violence also inward, hence from Dadagiri he turned to Gandhigiri, from one extreme to another extreme. One side he was ready to kill for his gain, another side he was ready to sacrifice himself for gain. The irony is one cannot sacrifice for self gain, it is like the old saying that %u201C I am ready to even die for living%u201D. How can one die and live at a time. The desire is a barrier between a doing and sacrifice. Either it is a surrender for nothing, or violence for gain. But Munna was sacrificing for gain. He wanted to get his girl friend back, he wanted to get girlfriend%u2019s bungalow back etc. From his usual course of violence he adopted new violence of self sacrifice for gain. You give me, otherwise I will kill myself. The method used is the same %u201Cviolence%u201D and tool is same the %u201Cthreat%u201D. First it was threat to outsiders, second it is threat to self. First it was causing fear of physical injury to others, second it was causing fear of guilt in the mind of others. One is a physical injury and other is a psychological injury. And psychological injury is more grievous. If one slap you, you may retaliate and forget about it, but if one insult you wordily, you will never forget it, you will keep till you get an opportunity. So Munna transformed from physical threat to mental threat to get the things done.
At the third stage, Munna transcend from both form of violence. He drop violence against self also realizing its uselessness, understood that it was his hallucination that he can get his desires fulfilled by indulging in mental threat. His earlier job of physical threat failed hence he adopted new method now he realized that even this mental threat also is a failure. He then drops violence against self and even the desires. Now this is very important, I don%u2019t know whether it was done by the producers deliberately or not, but it makes the film class apart. Munna drops even his desires, and once he drops desires he become compassionate. Real compassion arise from him even for his rival, and this compassion save his rival from getting ridiculed in the public. What is important here is Munna helped his rival not anticipating any gain, he did it for the sake of just doing it. And when he did something out of compassion without expecting any result out of it, as he by then dropped even his desires, the un-expected happened. He got some gifts, which were not desired at that time. Remember, he could have got it by indulging his earlier job of violence either way, but there he would have missed compassion, he would have to protect from retaliation after fulfilling his desires. Here the things were gifted by the outsiders out of love and not because of fear of physical injury or guilt. The film clearly succeeds in proving that it is not violence of either nature that succeeds but compassion without any desire, which succeeds, and then whatever gained is gifts as it was not a work for success and victory but was gift came for some work done but not from the work done with desire to achieve it, and it is anti-gandhian. Gandhigiri is usage of non-violence as tool for gain. Munna left Gandhigiri, as a symbol of dropping Gandhigiri he has seen with alcohol and surrendered to the destiny. He left all the desires and got every thing. Gandhigiri is a stage of struggle; it is struggle for some personal gain or for gain for others. Munna went beyond such struggle and left the struggle also along with desires and surrendered to the destiny then happened a new person, for whom the nature is ready to give everything. Lageraho%u2026.. Munnabai.
RE:Munna is antiGandhian and not Pro Gandhian
by r s on Apr 17, 2007 05:49 PM
Please first get your facts right...and then post your comment in the right blog....This was meant for Madhuri and u kept on talking about Munaa and Gandhi...Go get a life dear and better write short post next time.. no one goin to pay u high for long posts...
I'm not from India but it disgusts me that most Indians (assuming the sample of posters on this site represent the Indian population) seem to have strong age-ist issues with women.
Why cant a woman be successful, enjoy life, have kids they really love and look after and be above 40? It seems like most people in India dont like the idea of any woman having these qualities.
In the West you have Madonna for example who is still well loved, a good mother and still making music for her fans
But it India it seems like the country is booing the return of the woman that is arguably the most successful actress in this industry ever (India's Julia Roberts?) simply because she's not a mom and is hitting 40 this year.
If you ask me, she looks gorgeous in those photos.
And why are people afraid of her stealing roles from young actresses? I'm not sure if it works in India but I dont think her doing a movie or two a year but overshadow other actresses altogether.
RE:I'm quite disgusted by most of you
by on Apr 03, 2007 11:45 PM
Your comment is so much on the ball. She is an actress in her own league and would not pose a threat to any other actress.
Madhuri is the best ACTRESS bollywood has ever seen, and any individual who goes out and denies that knows nothing about films. As for all the HATERS here... WELL IF madhuri wasn't all that--- you wouldn't be here commenting on her, EVEN IF IT IS NEGATIVE. SHE IS SOMEONE WHO CAN STILL ROCK BOLLYWOOD... AND SHE IS DOING IT. If she had no potential- yash raj films would not have signed her on. they are money hunger, people pulse reading production house and they know what the JANTA wants. As for her looking old- well dudes she is 40 and she looks AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGG FOR HER AGE. I mean i know all the haters out there would give the skin of their teeths to have their wives or themsleves look one percent as good as madhuri when they hit 30. So give me a break. ALL THE HATERS WHO COME HERE AND SAY MADHURI IS FINISHED- CONTRADICT THEMSELVES WHEN THEY LEAVE ANY MESSAGE. THE REALITY IS IF MADHURI WASN'T INDEED FINISHED NO ONE WOULD CARE ABOUT HER PRESENCE. So get out of here and do something worthwhileeeeeeeeeeeee if you have nothing nice to say... cause the FACT is MADHURI IS MADHURI, AND MOVIES LOVE HER.
RE:Madhuri Rocks----- and all the Haters Know it toooo
by Raj Gohil on Mar 14, 2007 09:27 PM
i love you man..lol..you took the words out my mouth..thank you sooo much!!!! please email me on gohil_rajesh@hotmail.com
she looks old,pale and wrinkled..see her arms and face...she cant stay in US 4 long..shes addicted to success fame..comon plz give young actors sme chance..u hv had ur share..and evn if u r back do some mature roles and not that routine jhatak matak dances lk cholis and dhak dhak ..(plz do classic dances lk somethn which hema,waheeda,vyanjantimala did...really miss those gr88 dances) h.and dosent repeat stupid kissing scenes lk in dayavan i dono y ppl criticize other actresses for kissin whn mads had done that for 1 and half minute...she just wants to hv lavish life in US earn money frm india (common ppl) and do ntg in return for them....plz we have many more women and gr88 ppl who do for the country in return...khud ke liye jeene wale bahut hote hai....pity those ppl who consider heroines lk these as devi maa..wht special they do they get money for acting,shedding clothes and romancin guys in public..shs dne that...she shd play roles of amma now..smethn mature plzzz
RE:mads
by Poonam on Mar 14, 2007 09:33 AM
DEAR anju WHO ISN'T ADDICTED TO SUCCESS AND FAMe?????? madhuri has been a very dignified actress..... she is nun compared to the things the bollywood actressed do tooday... so stay in the present and get a sense of reality. yikes you people are morons... Its people like you who hold there steretypical views about age, females, etc that make INDIA A THRID WORLD COUNTRY. grow up....
RE:RE:mads
by anju s n on Mar 14, 2007 05:57 PM
oh comon u guys r worshippin her as some goddess....i hope u know sme gr88 women too in our contry and nt jst glamour dolls who simply entertain by xposing and doing nautanki dances...also thr r more gr88 actresses than her..u can ask any1..
Regarding the dress sense, Madhuri has only worn saree's to her recent public engagements (book launch, music launch etc)...her clothes from the film shoot and film publicity are the clothes for the character...seems most people on commenting here have trouble identifying reality....
Regarding the age issue yes, Madhuri is 39 years old, and always having been one of the most prosessional people in the business and last true number one actress I'm sure she will has chosen a role which suits her - especially in a Yash Raj production.
It's a shame that the majority of comments made here are sexist, and ageist against women...with these attitudes towards Indian women by Indians, is it any wonder they call us 'deveolping?'
Ya ya, I know Bollywood is no place for older or middle aged actresses....but didt ya see Hema Malini & Rita Agnihotri...They look so beautiful even being older. Well, I think one shud give a chance to Madhuri..she is definitely a much wonderful dancer with a killer smile & beautiful face. Let Madhuri be the one to change the perception of ppl who underestimate older actors! BEST OF LUCK to Madhuri!! Way to go, Girl!!
