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Madhuri Dixit Returns to Indian Cinema

Denver homemaker and mother of two sons, Madhuri Dixit is back in India's vibrant movie industry after a five-year break with a film centered around her forte — dancing. "It makes me a little nervous whether people will accept me again," Dixit said ahead of the worldwide release of her new movie "Aaja Nachle," or "Come Let's Dance," on Nov. 30. "It makes me nervous, but I'm excited." Dixit plays a choreographer who after a decade in New York returns to India to save her dance teacher's school from being razed for a more lucrative development. Dixit was last seen on the big screen in 2002, when she played a courtesan in a saga of doomed love in "Devdas." After that, she took a break from acting to raise her two sons with husband Shriram Nene, a surgeon, in Denver, Colorado. Dixit, 42, said that moving to the United States was a refreshing change from her fishbowl existence in India, where she could never walk down a stree

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh in smoking row

MUMBAI (AFP) — An Indian anti-smoking group is threatening to take Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to court for allegedly lighting up in public in violation of India's anti-smoking law. Last month, the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) asked the 42-year-old star to explain his actions after he was spied smoking at a cricket match in Mumbai and at a media conference in Delhi. "This is not how a superstar should behave... Adored by millions (he) cannot lend a helping hand to promote smoking," the group's general secretary Shekhar Salkar said. "We will be filing a case against him at the local court," Salkar said. Anyone breaking the law faces a fine of 200 rupees (4.50 dollars). The controversy comes as the muscled star rides high on the success of his newly released song-and-dance movie "Om Shanti Om", a movie about reincarnation. The anti-smoking group filed a legal notice against Khan last month accusing him of breaking India