Overview
- Citing comments she gave to SCREEN on Sunday, Madhuri pointed to her elder son Arin’s March 17, 2003 birth date to show that being four months pregnant during the 2002 Devdas shoot is implausible.
- The allegation originated in a Bollywood Thikana podcast in which Rubina Khan, a former associate of late choreographer Saroj Khan, said Madhuri was four months pregnant, had a fever, and that the Dola Re Dola sequence took 17 days to film.
- Madhuri acknowledged the shoot was gruelling but said her exhaustion came from frequent travel and night shoots rather than pregnancy.
- The exchange has reopened debate about how fallible retrospective memories can be when they meet verifiable records, and social media drove renewed attention to the two-decade-old production anecdote.
- Dola Re Dola remains an iconic sequence in Devdas and the clarification arrives as Madhuri promotes her upcoming Netflix film Maa Behen, due to stream in early June.