Madhuri's dream role

Actress Madhuri Dixit says her 'great role' is yet to come and that she is still searching for it.

"It is still to come. I'm looking for it. Searching for the right role, something exciting," she said in an interview in Face To Face on BBC recently. This was in response to the question whether she had got her one great role which, at the end of the day, great actresses are identified with (like Rekha in Umrao Jaan and Nargis in Mother India.)

To whether it would be a particular director, script or something tangible within her, she replied it would be a combination of all three, adding, "I don't think Rekha, when she did Umrao Jaan, or Nargis when she did Mother India were aware that those films would be landmarks in their career."

Madhuri, who shot to fame in the early 1980s and went on to become the heart-throb of millions, said she still felt like a juvenile when facing the camera and still got butterflies in her stomach.

"I still feel passionately about my work. It is the perfectionist in me," she said.

The character closest to her, she revealed, is Nisha in Hum Aapke Hain Koun? "I was brought up with traditional values in a joint family."

Madhuri admitted to being suspicious initially about her first hit number, Ek do teen: "I thought, 'What kind of a song is this? It's just counting.' But it was great fun when I did it!"

PTI