{"id":331768,"date":"2025-12-08T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331768\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:43:08","slug":"madhuri-dixit-recalls-mf-hussain-visiting-her-in-denver-after-she-got-married-to-sriram-nene-and-became-a-mom-asked-him-to-not-paint-why-are-you-punishing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331768\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhuri Dixit recalls MF Hussain visiting her in Denver after she got married to Sriram Nene and became a mom; asked him to not paint: ‘Why are you punishing me?’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Madhuri When Madhuri Dixit<\/a> tied the knot with Dr Shriram Nene in 1999, stepped away from films at her peak, and relocated to Denver, many admirers felt the void\u2014among them was the iconic MF Husain. The celebrated artist regarded Madhuri as his eternal muse, creating numerous artworks inspired by her and signing them off with the word \u201cFida,\u201d symbolising his devotion towards her. In a recent interview, Madhuri recalled the legendary painter’s visit to her. She told Faye D\u2019Souza. \u201cHe was such a lovely person. I remember when he came to visit my home in Denver, he said, \u2018I\u2019ve always seen you as Madhuri Dixit, the actress. Now, I want to see you as Madhuri Dixit, the mother.\u2019 Because I\u2019d had both my sons at that time. I said, \u2018Yes, you\u2019re most welcome. Please come,’\u201d she recalled. <\/p>\n

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By then, she and Dr Nene were parents to Arin (born in 2003) and Ryan (born in 2005). Although she had last been seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali<\/a>\u2019s grand period romance ‘Devdas’ in 2002, she had paused acting after embracing motherhood. Madhuri remembered how, during one visit, Husain immediately insisted on painting her, but she stopped him and asked him to rest instead. \u201cHe said, \u2018Why are you punishing me?\u2019 I said, \u2018Why?\u2019 He said, \u2018I\u2019m most relaxed when I paint.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly how I feel about my art. I\u2019m most comfortable in front of the camera, playing these different characters. I said, \u2018Hussain ji, you made me realise that about myself too when you said that,’\u201d she shared.His visits were anything but ordinary. Madhuri narrated with amusement how he arrived with only a small rollaway bag. \u201cEvery house he went to, he brought along a lot of goodwill, laughter, and sense of humour. When he came to visit me, he had nothing but a rollaway bag. I thought maybe he has clothes in that bag. When I came home, he said, \u2018Bring a canvas. I want to paint.\u2019 When I said, \u2018But we\u2019ll have to get paints too.\u2019 He showed me the rollover bag and said, \u2018No, here are the paints.\u2019 I said, \u2018Then where are your clothes? What are you going to wear?\u2019 He said he just has the shirt and pants he was wearing then, and his night pyjamas underneath because it was cold in Denver. I said, \u2018Okay, let\u2019s go shopping now!,’\u201d she recounted with laughter.Husain\u2019s admiration for Dixit entended beyond paintings. He made his 2000 film ‘Gaja Gamini’ which was essentially a cinematic ode to her. He even appeared in ‘Mohabbat’ (1997), in which Madhuri played a painter. Interestingly, the paintings shown in the film were Husain\u2019s own creations.Infact, Dixit’s encouter with Hussain nudged Madhuri back towards the arc lights, leading to her return with ‘Aaja Nachle’ in 2007. Soon after, she joined ‘Jhalak Dikhla Jaa’ as a judge, and by 2011, she and her family permanently shifted base back to Mumbai. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Madhuri Dixit tied the knot with Dr Shriram Nene in 1999, stepped away from films at her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[146093,49,48,361,106716,75,146092,146096,56149,146091,146094,35313,146095],"class_list":["post-331768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aaja-nachle","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-devdas","tag-entertainment","tag-gaja-gamini","tag-jhalak-dikhla-jaa","tag-madhuri-dixit","tag-mf-hussain","tag-paintings-inspired-by-madhuri-dixit","tag-sanjay-leela-bhansali","tag-sriram-nene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}