Madhuri Dixit ties nuptial knot
Superstar Madhuri Dixit tied the nuptial knot with Los Angeles-based surgeon Dr Shriram Nene on October 17.
The wedding ceremony, conducted according to Vedic rites, was held at the Los Angeles residence of Madhuri’s brother Ajit, a computer engineer.
The family-only' event was followed by a sumptuous Maharashtrian vegetarian lunch of shrikhand-puri’ and `masale-bhaat’, Madhuri’s personal secretary Rakesh Nath, who also attended the mother of all weddings, told this newspaper on Thursday. Although the diva of Hindi cinema was reportedly in Mumbai on Thursday, she was unavailable for comment.
The Madhuri-Shriram marriage had all the trappings of a Maharashtrian Brahmin alliance, what with her family members consulting the duo’s horoscope before okaying the match, a spokesperson for the actress said.
With her two sisters and brother Ajit already settled in the U.S., Madhuri’s frequent visits to that country had fuelled speculation over the last few years that she planned to marry a non-resident Indian and settle down in the United States.
The `dhak dhak’ girl is reported to have spent over a week in Los Angeles after the wedding and to have returned to India on October 27. Stating that she had no immediate plans to return to Los Angeles because of a shooting schedule planned earlier, Mr Nath claimed that she would continue with her career in cinema.
However, with her two recent films–Boney Kapoor’s Pukaar' and Gajagamini’, produced by Mr Nath and directed by well-known painter M.F. Husain–now in the cans, Madhuri’s marriage comes as a happy ending to a brilliant career which began with Abodh' in the early 1980s and reached dizzying heights with superhits such as Tezaab’, Saajan', Dil’, Betaa', Ram Lakhan’, Prahaar' and Mrityudand’.