Pregnant Madhuri Dixit rehearsed for 13 hours to get one ‘Dola Re’ step right: ‘She was dizzy’ | Bollywood News
4 min readMumbaiMay 19, 2026 11:49 AM IST Late legendary choreographer Saroj Khan had a huge part to play in catapulting Madhuri Dixit into stardom. Right from their first breakthrough song, “Ek Do Teen Chaar” from N Chandra’s 1988 hit action romance Tezaab to their last collaboration, “Tabaah Ho Gaye” from Abhishek Varman’s 2019 period drama Kalank, the choreographer and the actor have always struck gold whenever they’ve united forces. Madhuri was pregnant during ‘Dola Re Dola’ Now, 24 years after they shot for the song, Saroj Khan’s crew member Rubina Khan, who worked closely with the late choreographer, has revealed a surprising detail about Madhuri and Aishwarya Rai’s iconic dance duet song “Dola Re” from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2002 blockbuster period romance Devdas, also starring Shah Rukh Khan. “It took 17 days to shoot that song. Rehearsals happened for at least a month. We rehearsed separately, and the lead actors rehearsed separately,” Rubina told Bollywood Thikana. “There’s a step in which Madhuri ma’am turns and sits down. That shot kept happening from 9 am …




