The word STAR is a pretty misused word today due to the paparazzi as the need to put out information and pictures everybody appearing in films and television is a star. But what is a real star? Our reading of it is that it is someone who is liked by enough of the film going audience that makes the audience want to watch them.
The audience is prepared to pay and give their time and this what
separates the real stars from paparazzi stars. The former will be very
few while the latter will be in huge numbers.
Madhuri Dixit was one of those rare boxoffice female star between (1988-1995) and Last real female star industry has seen.
We have not created a genuine male box office star in the last fifteen years or more so it would take some doing by a female to achieve that status. But Madhuri Dixit was one of the four genuine female box office stars that the Hindi film industry has created, someone who really mattered at the box office as a sole entity. Basically in the same bracket as the Khans are today.
Madhuri Dixit is the last female box
office star the film industry has seen.
Tezaab (1988) made her a huge star
after a few years of struggle and the success of Tezaab was consolidated
in a month with an even bigger blockbuster Ram Lakhan (1989) after another six months she got another Blockbuster with Tridev.
But at this
point of time Sridevi was the reigning star and in a big way and it was
films like Dil, Saajan and Beta which made Madhuri Dixit that box office
star.
Dil had Aamir Khan but it became a Madhuri Dixit film,
coincidentally the first four big hits of Aamir Khan (Qayamat Se Qayamat
Tak, Dil, Rangeela and Raja Hindustani) all propelled the heroines as
they took the credit.
Saajan had Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan while Beta
had Anil Kapoor but generally it was Madhuri Dixit leading the way in
these films.
Even Shahrukh Khan played second fiddle to Madhuri Dixit in
Anjaam but Shahrukh Khan was on a crest of a wave at the time and the
audience could not accept him as an outright villain and the film was
rejected.
Then came the peak with Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and Raja and it
could be that "No Heroine had ever reached this level" but to live up to
these box office expectations would have been difficult even for a huge
male star and the downfall started.
Madhuri Dixit saw huge downfall after Raja which started with Paappi Devataa.
In 1996 Actresses like Karisma Kapoor and Kajol took over.
In 1996 Actresses like Karisma Kapoor and Kajol took over.
After that her 20 films released and only 4 became success. All with Shahrukh Khan (Koyla, Dil To Pagal Hai, Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam and Devdas).
But the sort of Stardom she saw during 1990-1995 phase was unparallel. No Heroine had ever dominated the boxoffice on such magnitude in the history of bollywood the way she dominated during this phase.
