User:Subhusinha/Madhuri Bhattacharya

The femme fatale has always been both the audience’s and filmmakers’ fantasy. Marilyn Monroe, Mae West or our very Madhuri Dixit, these divas have Madhuri Bhattacharya and Arbaaz Khan in a still from Prem Kaa Game.always triggered off the audiences appetite for a desirable dream-girl. Ashok Kheny’s Prem Kaa Game, which will be released by PVR next month, is another attempt to cash in on the confusion the other woman — played by Madhuri Bhattacharya — can create in the mind of a middle-class, married man.

Groomed on one of Bangalore’s advertising campus and having been crowned Miss Bangalore, Madhuri had always set her sights on Bollywood. She is quite sure about getting what she wants and says, “I have no qualms about being perceived as a sex-symbol. As long as it’s a pivotal character in the story.” What does Madhuri feel about playing the seductress in a movie that also has Malaika Arora Khan featuring in an exotic song filmed in Goa with hubby Arbaaz? “Malaika is undoubtedly the ultimate diva. It’s very inspiring to be featured in the same film,” she says. Prem Kaa Game, a marital comedy, has Madhuri repeating a line — I don't believe in marriage... I believe in love! Does she actually believe in this philosophy in real life too? Madhuri says, “Love without marriage may be fruitful, but marriage without love definitely cannot bear fruit. So sometimes the forbidden fruit is more desirable.”