After a four-year hiatus, actress Madhuri Dixit Nene returns to film with Marathi movie Bucket List, releasing in the UAE on May 24.
Making her acting debut in regional cinema, Dixit seems ecstatic do a film in her native language, ticking off a wish from her own Bucket List.
Directed by Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar, the film is set in Pune and portrays a middle-class housewife on the path of self-discovery. She enters a new phase of her life when she decides to fulfil her heart donor’s Bucket List. We list five little-known facts about Bucket List.
1) Back to her roots
A superstar and diva in her own right, Dixit Nene has reached several milestones during her 30-year career in Bollywood. In her latest mile marker, the 51-year-old actress returns to her cultural roots as a Maharashtrian and debuts in Marathi cinema. She took to Twitter to reveal the news and the poster of Bucket List during a tete-a-tete with friend and producer Karan Johar. With more than 45 films in her repertoire, Dixit has been excited to set foot into a whole new cinema world with Bucket List.
2) Karan Johar’s second venture into regional cinema
After a record-breaking success in regional cinema with South India’s Baahubali, director and producer Karan Johar of Dharma Productions takes his first steps into Marathi cinema with Bucket List. Breaking several language barriers and with an aim to provide quality cinema, Johar ticks off another wish off his bucket list producing Dixit Nene in her first Marathi film.
3) A reunion with Renuka Shahane
Who would’ve thought that the iconic sisters from 1994’s Hum Aapke Hain Koun would reunite two decades later? Dixit Nene and Renuka Shahane, who shared screen space for the first time in the famous family drama, came together after 24 years for the film. Making new memories while also reliving some old ones, the two actresses recreated the well-known song Lo Chali Mein while on set that went viral over the internet.
4) Ranbir Kapoor’s cameo
If you’ve watched the trailer, just like us, you too must’ve been taken back watching Ranbir Kapoor’s quick appearance towards the end. The actor plays a cameo as himself, a Bollywood star, in Bucket List. With this, he also makes his debut in Marathi cinema. Dixit Nene and Kapoor were earlier seen together in the latter’s acclaimed film, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, when she starred in the famous track, Ghagra.
5) The film is inspired by an article
For more than four years after the release of his second feature film Premsutra, Maharashtrian director and screenplay writer Tejas Deoskar’s projects went bust at various stages of filmmaking. With a stellar cast on board with Dixit Nene, Shahane and Sumeet Raghavan, a germ of an idea helped Deoskar build the story of Bucket List — a reported incident in a newspaper published a few years ago.
— Simran Kanal is an intern at Gulf News.
