Mrityudaata

Mrityudaata is a Hindi movie released in year 1997. it was directed and produced by Prakesh Jha and starred by Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan , Mohan Agashe and Om Puri.

Madhuri Dixit

The film is a commentary on social and gender injustice. As in his other movies, filmmaker Prakash Jha has focused on the social problems that plague his native state of

Bihar and like his other movies this one straddles the boundary between art film and commercial film. Movie has won many awards also, for its amazing performance.

Rituparno Ghosh’s Abohomaan based on Satyajit Ray’s life

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>Rituparno Ghosh who directed the film Raincoat in 2004, The Last Lear in 2007, Bipasha Basu starrer Shob Charitro Kalponik, his new project Abohomaan, is based on the life of legendary filmmaker, Satyajit Ray. Satyajit Ray had some issues with his wife and son and the major part of the film focuses on that.

Even though Rituparno wanted Amitabh Bachchan to play the lead role with Shabana Azmi as his wife and the evergreen Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit and Farhan Akhtar as the actress who he is attracted to and his Big B’s son respectively, he had to settle for actor Deepankar De as the protagonist.

Mamta Shankar plays his wife and Ananya Chatterjee, the actress. Jishu Sengupta plays the son. The movie is produced by Reliance Big Pictures. The famous film director has also directed a 2009 flick Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam.

Women- centric Madhuri Film: Mrityudand!!!

Women rule!!! That is what you feel while watching powerful performances of Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shirodkar, and Shabana Azmi in MRITYUDAND. MRITYUDAND is a movie that released in 1997. It was directed and produced by Prakash Jha and stars Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan, Mohan Agashe and Om Puri. A different (but brilliant) plot and excellent acting from all the players has made this movie what it is.

MRITYUDAND story was set in Bihar. It was the story of three village women revolting against their husbands and ultimately rushing to their doom. Madhuri played a girl who has just gotten married to a well to do business man (played by AYUB KHAN) and has been absorbed into all his family problems. Madhuri watches her hired help’s (SHILPA SHIRODKAR) husband forced to leave the village to pay off a debt, forcing Shilpa into prostitution and other such dealings to help her husband. Madhuri views her husband’s sister in law (played by SHABANA AZMI) crumble pitifully when her husband made the decision to leave her to become a pandit. She also watches as her own kind husband becomes an abusive drunk because of a bad buisness deal. Finally, deciding to do something about the bad treatment of the female gender, she teaches the women to fight back. Madhuri starts fighting her husband while the man handles her. Shilpa revolts against an antagonist and his gambling partner when she calls them both pimps and shows them what women are capable of (a great scene in the movie). Shabana fights back in a less violent way by falling in love and having sex with the family’s kind hired help (OM PURI) while still being married to her pandit husband.

The rest of the movie deals with their efforts to break out of this morass, both within their relationship as well as outside of it, and bloody struggle to confront and defeat the forces of oppression and male domination in the village. Acting on the part of the three heroines is fabulous. Maduri Dixit proved aptly in the movie that she has acting skills as well as dance talent. Shilpa Shirodkar really surprises with her bold and polished acting talent. She is truly a brilliant actress. Shabana Azmi and Om puri have done a marvelous job playing the doomed lovers. Ayub Khan is good in his small role, though not as good as the other performers. Music is brilliant by the recovering Anand Milind. Lyrics are excellent by Javed Akhtar. Prakash Jha’s screenplay and directing is excellent. Nothing was shabby about this film.

Awards bestowed on Mrityudand!!!

• Special Jury Award, Best Feature Film, Cinéma Tout Ecran, Geneva (1998)
• Audience Award, Best Feature Film, Bangkok Film Festival (1998)
• Best Actress, Madhuri Dixit, Screen Awards (1998)
• Best Supporting Actress, Shabana Azmi, Screen Awards (1998)
• Best Actor In A Negative Role, Mohan Joshi, Screen Awards (1998)
• Best Director, Prakash Jha, Zee Cine Awards (1998)
• Best Dialogue Writer, Prakash Jha, Zee Cine Awards (1998)
• Best Sound (Re-recording), Zee Cine Awards (1998)
• Best Feature Film (Critics’ Choice), Prakash Jha, Sansui Awards (1998)
• Best Actress, Madhuri Dixit, Sansui Awards (1998)

Madhuri’s itinerary of her visit in 2009

In 2008, Madhuri was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India. She was also nominated for the 2008 Filmfare Best Actress Award forher role as Diya in Aaja Nachle and for the 2008 Stardust Star of the Year Award – Female, also for Aaja Nachle. And she was honored at the IFFLA Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.

Madhuri Dixit is currently in Mumbai with her family and she was also the Guest of Honour at the International Kite Festival held at The Club in Andheri, Mumbai on Sunday.She was spotted there flying kites with her own children.TV celebrity Pooja Bedi were among others
present.

Former Bollywood superstar Madhuri Dixit was the chief guest at the Sixteen: Nine International Film Festival of Usha Pravin Gandhi College in Vile Parle, Mumbai. The former Bollywood superstar gave away the awards at the end of the 2 day festival.

Along with Madhuri Dixit, hottie Imran Khan, producers Sanjay Gupta and Ravi Chopra, director Goldie Behl and veteran actress Shabana Azmi
will also give away some awards, according to the official website of the festival. Directors Aziz Mirza and Anurag Kashyap inaugurated thefestival. Hard Kaur performed at the finale.

Aamir Khan was the Chief Guest at the festival last year and gave away the prizes in different categories. He said he doesn’t attend award ceremonies but this was different as it was done by students and he couldn’t say no because he was a student of Narsee Monjee (NM) College. He promised he would keep himself free this year as well to attend the festival. Unfortunately, that has not happened because he is busy shooting for Raju Hirani’s 3 Idiots in Bangalore. He will be coming to Bombay today for a few hours to attend the Ghajini success party and to wish nephew Imran whose birthday is on 13 January.

This film festival is the property of Usha Pravin Gandhi College in Vile Parle. Now in its second year, it showcases short films, documentaries and other films made by budding filmmakers from all across the globe. Seminars on different aspects of cinema are held by experts from those fields during the course of the two day event. The finale comprises the awards distribution and a musical performance.

We have seen how she made it to Randhir Kapoor’s B’day party and inaugrated Hair and Make-up Fashion week.

Madhuri will also be on the Unforgettable Tour as it tours India in mid 2009. The Unforgettable Tour in India will be held in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.