Dear Madhuri,

I would like to have a heart to heart talk with u. now. the Dil se dil tak kind u know. (Not the dhak dhak kind please).

I would like u to know that ive been ur fan( kinda find that word rather uncool but am using it for want of a better word), from time immemorial. I had always watched your songs in chayageet on doordarshan, with open mouths,, when there was no multiple channels and  I didn’t have money to watch ur films.

 I remember first liking u in jamai raja, where u were sneezing away, ‘aachieeeee lagti hai’ in a song while being serenaded by anil kapoor. the sense of fun with which u did the song, the freshness , no words to describe it.

I simply loved the way u sang a totally idiotically crazy song with anil kapoor ‘batata wada’ in hifazat, (both movies,which btw, i saw in  a VCR, a bane for bollywood in those days if u remember).I must admit, that u simply had the knack of making the most inane and stupid ideas of the late 80s and turn it into a box office winner, with ur winsome smile and personality.raja for instance.

Your mujhe neend na aaye, with amir khan, in dil, and the khambe jaisi khadi song with ur pinkkkkkkkkkkk outfit…… ahhhhhhh…those were the days.. (btw, that  movie has a personal memory attached to it, cause that comes second under  total four movies ive seen with my hubby in a theatre.)

And what new can i say about ‘Ek, do, teen’…even numbers could make a song hit if it had madhuri performing on it.

In sajan, u showed the world of how u could shake a leg…not many know that u deserve the credit  for bringing in a  certain sharpness and high voltage speed  in bollywood dancing, which is now seen as has always existed. And .If  it wasn’t for beta, perhaps even today, bollywood would have show dil as a little below the neck, instead of the boobs as u showed us all in the dhak dhak song. Heaving of  bossom became cool only after u showed us how to do it. 

In fact, with beta u even carried a rather difficult movie on ur womanly shoulders. Not many heroines of the 80s and 90s can boast about such a feat.

And purple  color became so cool, so also heavily bejeweled sarees and cholis,( which was later borrowed by aish in ur other movie, devdas). It was you who changed all that with ‘didi tera dewar diwana’…Though personally, I thot that u did not look like it was ur first love( u seem to have the impression of a lass, who had been there, done that, and hence knew exactly wat to expect from her man), but  you did looked icily cool and totally in control,  in each and every scene in the movie.

I remember being terribly offended when u let the junior artistes rub ur butt, for the koi aaye leke pyar number in sailab…as also of how u even thought of signing a film opposite that baldie aditya ..whatever.

We did get a few duds from you in the form of koyla, and anjam…in fact come to think of it, with most of ur movies with shahrukh khan..(who seemed to have shared a similar fate with manisha koirala too)..was it luminescence cancelling luminescence, I wonder. - dil to pagal hai, was the only exception, but then it was mostly liked for karishma kapoor than u,im sorry to say!

And that when u decided to call it a day. You apparently had decided that u wanted to have nothing to do with the film industry, once u are married and settled down so as to speak. Otherwise u wouldn’t have caught or fancied a certain surgeon from US, when u had the pick of the most rich and famous people in india and Pakistan vying for u.

You remained true to ur resolve. With ur first child. And ur second child.

Till u decided to give films a second chance with ‘aaja nach le’. As an ardent madhuri fan, I was thrilled to bits…until I saw the movie!

Madhuri u were so totally disappointing, when u decided to play safe and not have any hot scenes with any guys, and left the romantic stuff to kunal kapoor and konkana sen, Even your dances, u took great share not to heave ur now married boobs. now how unmadhuri is that???????????/And  hoped the audience would be foolish enough to be captivated by ur back ( and feet) instead

…now how stupid is that?

When we come to see madhuri, we want to see madhuri.

 The darling of the millions.

 The sweet innocent girl, who gave a kind of respectability to heaving boobs. 

who removed the tag of sluttiness from the breast..

 I think what I liked most about dhak dhak  song, was that nobody found u slutty in that song

 even as u were ramming ur huge melons into the audicence’s gaping faces. 

Inspite of it all, U never lost the girl next door attitude. 

All of  the guys would ahve gone home thinking , madhuri is the girl I wud like to take home to mother.

 All of girls, hoped that guys would still think then respectable like madhuri even if they did naughty things like thrust their boobs out for all to see.

But suddenly in aaja nach le, there u were acting more prudish than a  woman in a purdah. The self imposed distancing from the sexy (and how), girl next door…it made little sense. at all. Since u thrived on ur sensuality. Along with the girl next door. They went together. One without the other wouldn’t work. U should have known that.

Now u make a remark, that u don’t want to do freaky friday remake with anil kapoor’s daughter. I find that terrible shortsighted madhuri, and heres where I want to advice u. I normally don’t advice people, but somehow I hate to see my heroin fall flat on her face once again. Maybe u haven’t seen the original, but freaky Friday kinda roles are the ones that are u type now.

U don’t come from an industry, wehre u would not  look cool with an amir or shahrukh.(donno about salman, mite work I think). Cause the industry, is used to seeing amrita singh start with sunny deol, and end her career with dharamdra. Exceptions are rare, and I don’t think that you are an exception.

We do want to see more of madhuri. But we want to see the madhuri who is not ashamed of heaving her boobs at 45, married and two kids to boot. We want to see a madhuri who has romps the screen with her lover what ever the age with a lack of self consciousness that we were forced to witness in aaja nachle. We want a madhuri who would sell a story with her winsome smile and personality, and not what the producers think would work for u.

We want a madhuri who is not ashamed to play her age…who is unabashedly  dhak dhaks