Mallika Sherawat Biography
Mallika Sherawat : Mallika Sherawat's Biography
Mallika
Sherawat was born on October 24, 1981, in Rohtak, Haryana, India. Raised by
conservative, old-fashioned parents, Mallika Sherawat spent her childhood
harboring secret dreams of someday making a living as a model and
actress. Much to the opposition of Mallika Sherawat's father who never made any secret
of his disdain for his daughter’s lofty ambitions, Mallika Sherawat left her
small village as soon as she was able to and she made her way to India’s
most populous city, Mumbai.
Having made the decision to pursue a career within the entertainment
industry, Mallika Sherawat abandoned her birth name of Reema Lamba (primarily
because of the surfeit of actresses named Reema) and adopted her current
moniker (Sherawat is her mother’s maiden name). As Mallika Sherawat soon
discovered, however, it’s a long, hard road from obscurity to fame and
fortune. As such, the struggling performer took on a job as an air
hostess and soon found herself falling for a pilot named Karan Singh
Gill.
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Although the two were married
shortly after, their union didn’t last terribly long and Mallika
Sherawat was
once again living the single life. Fortunately for Mallika Sherawat, it was
around that time that she finally managed to land an actual part on a
movie: 2002’s Bollywood effort Jeena Sirf Merre Liye. Despite the
smallness of the role, audiences and film producers began to take notice
of Mallika Sherawat’s beauty and natural talent.
Mallika Sherawat's big break came a year later with a fairly substantial role in the
controversial Khwahish. Mallika Sherawat caused quite a stir with
Mallika Sherawat's unabashedly
sexual performance, in which she participated in a scandalous amount of
on-screen kisses -- 17, to be exact. The film firmly established Mallika
Sherawat
as a brassy, uninhibited actress who deserved to be mentioned in the
same breath as fellow Bollywood queens such as Aishwarya Rai and Lisa
Ray.
Mallika Sherawat cemented her
reputation as a Bollywood sexpot in 2004 with the release of Murder,
which cast the actress as a married woman who embarks upon an illicit
affair that leads to disastrous consequences. The film, essentially a
remake of the 2002 Richard Gere and Diane Lane film Unfaithful, proved
that Mallika Sherawat had no qualms about showing plenty of skin on the big
screen. After landing a nomination for Best Actress at India’s Zee Cine
Awards, Mallika Sherawat discovered that she now had the status and reputation to
essentially write her own ticket.
Over the next two years, Mallika Sherawat appeared in no less than five movies,
including 2004’s Kis Kis Ki Kismet and 2005’s Bachke Rehna Re Baba.
Mallika Sherawat's increasingly prominent stature brought her to the attention of Jackie
Chan, who cast Mallika Sherawat as an Indian Princess in his 2004 action epic The
Myth. Mallika Sherawat caused something of a stir at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival,
when Mallika Sherawat arrived on the red carpet wearing an exceedingly skimpy outfit
as part of her promotional duties for The Myth.