Bollywood stars
Madhuri Dixit
Pooja of Dil To Pagal Hai
About Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit is celebrated for her dancing. In Yash Chopra’s Dil To Pagal Hai (30 October 1997) she is Pooja, who believes that someone, somewhere, is made for her (Yash Raj Films).
On screen
Dil To Pagal Hai paired her with Shah Rukh Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Akshay Kumar. In 2000 the painter M. F. Husain directed her in Gaja Gamini, and in Anil Mehta’s Aaja Nachle (2007) she is Dia, a dancer in New York who returns to the small town where she learned to dance, to save its old theatre from demolition.
Earlier, in 1989, she appeared in Umesh Mehra’s Vardi and Mujrim, both now in the Red Chillies catalogue.
Dil To Pagal Hai is, in Yash Raj Films’ words, a grand musical about passionate people with dreams.
Our advice: watch Dil To Pagal Hai for the dance numbers, set to Uttam Singh’s music.
Selected films
Vardi (6 January 1989), directed by Umesh Mehra
Mujrim (28 June 1989), directed by Umesh Mehra
Dil To Pagal Hai (30 October 1997), directed by Yash Chopra
Gaja Gamini (1 December 2000), directed by M.F. Husain
Aaja Nachle (30 November 2007), directed by Anil Mehta
Release dates and directors are from the films’ pages on the Yash Raj Films and Red Chillies Entertainment websites.
Why it's on our list
- Pooja in Dil To Pagal Hai
- Dia in Aaja Nachle
- Gaja Gamini, directed by M. F. Husain
Release dates and directors come from the studios’ own websites, and the National Film Awards from the Government of India’s Press Information Bureau.