Once leading ladies, Nirupama Roy and Neelam settled for bhabhi and mother roles after they married. Starlet Bhagyashree (Suman of Maine Pyaar Kiya) sunk without a trace (remember her film, Himalay Putra, with her husband? No? Figures!).

Perhaps that is why Juhi Chawla went to great pains to hide her marriage with businessman Jai Mehta for two years.

How things have changed!

Come 2007.

Madhuri Dixit-Nene's Aaja Nachle was one of the most awaited releases of 2007. It was the Dhak dhak girl's comeback movie after six years of maternity leave from the industry.

Kajol pulled it off wonderfully with little Nysa in tow through Kunal Kohli's Fanaa.

Now, it is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on the silver screen with Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar. The film releases February 15.

Her story, though, is quite noteworthy. She married Abhishek Bachchan in April 2007 and, after a mandatory month or so of vacationing, she was back to work on the sets of Jodhaa Akbar.

Pretty corporate, huh?

We look at some post marriage comebacks in the Mumbai film industry.