Madhuri Dixit she shocked fans and the film industry in 1999 when she got hitched to cardiovascular surgeon Shriram Nene and quit films. The wedding, held on October 17 at his older brother’s home in Southern California, was a low-key affair, and little was known about Dr. Nene at the time. Born in London and raised in the United States, she grew up in an immigrant family that valued traditional and stable career options.After a few years in the US, Madhuri and Dr. Nene returned to Mumbai and the actress slowly started returning to work. Meanwhile, now Dr. Nene is also often seen with him on various occasions and is equally famous, even through social media and his YouTube channel. Recently, he spoke about the expectations placed on him by his parents. In a chat with INKtalks while talking about his early life he said, “When I was 14 I had a software company and my migrant parents said you become a doctor or an engineer or we don’t get paid. That’s their algorithm as first generation parents, they didn’t know any better. But I, out of obligation, then didn’t go to Stanford, didn’t go to Berkeley, even though I got in everywhere and went to an undergraduate medical program at the University of Washington, finished there, went to UCLA, did general and vascular surgery, then did cardiac surgery at the University of Florida and then practiced.He also spoke of the fulfillment he found in medicine, especially in life-or-death situations where accuracy and timing were critical. He added: “What I found, over and over again, is that I could go in, in the nick of time, with millimeters and milliseconds, and save lives. And it was very rewarding because you would see patients at death’s door, you would bring them back. And it was a team effort, 80 of us, a very big cricket team or football team coming together to do something that was important.”“In a separate video on her YouTube channel, Dr. Nene reflected on her decision to relocate to India in 2011, admitting that it was not an easy transition for her family. “I’m from Indiana. I grew up from the beginning of immigrants and my parents were certainly not happy that I left the prototypical job of a heart surgeon and the wet dream of every Indian with perfect circumstances and many friends and the head of the hospital. But, at most, I could operate on 3-5 patients with open heart surgery and maybe 500 patients in a year.’After their marriage, Dr. Madhuri and Dr. Nene built a life together and adopted two sons: Arin, born on March 17, 2003, and Ryan, born on March 8, 2005.
