Madhuri Dixit’s sons didn’t know their mother was a Bollywood icon: How photographers outside a cinema left them confused & made them ask, 'Mom, what’s happening?'

For years, Madhuri Dixit’s sons knew her simply as their mother. Growing up in the US, they were largely removed from the frenzy surrounding her Bollywood career and did not fully understand why people recognised her.

That changed after a family outing to a cinema turned into an unexpected lesson about their mother’s celebrity status.