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Name:
Mallika Sherawat
Birth Name: Reema Lamba
Nickname: Bollywood's Kissing Queen
Date of birth: 24 October 1981
Place of birth: Rohtak, Haryana, India
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Education: Graduation from Miranda House, Delhi
University.
Claim to Fame: Her 17 smooching scenes in the hit movie
'Khwahish'. |
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Hot and sizzling, bold and brazen are the terms that
you associate with Mallika Sherawat. With in a
short span she has achieved so much that no other Indian
girl would have dreamed of.
Mallika Sherawat a.k.a Reema Lamba was born in
Haryana, India. She belongs to a conservative Jat family
who lived in the interiors of Rohtak. Her father was a
landlord and her mother was someone who never raised her
voice in front of him. She has a younger brother who was
the only support in her family; someone who actually
believed that she could achieve what she dreamed of. Her
teachers at School say that even as a kid she was a
flamboyant, bold, sharp, outspoken girl.
Mallika always wanted to be a star and was hell
bent on achieving what she wanted. But her conservative
parents, especially her father was dead against her
quest for stardom. He still is. So Mallika ran
away from home to Mumbai and slogged it out by doing
various jobs including that of a part-time airhostess.
There she met Karan Singh Gill, a pilot. They dated for
a while and got married.
Mallika was such a dreamer that her husband found
it hard to adjust to her idealistic wife and soon they
parted. But the loss was entirely his! Mallika got some
modeling assignments, which kept her going. Later she
modeled for some top products like BPL and Santro with
Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
When Govind Menon came to with ‘Khwaish’, a film dealing
with marital tensions, she lapped it up. She had no
qualm with the 17 kissing’s or the skin show. The film
became an unexpected hit and she never looked back. The
film that took her to the top was Mahesh Bhatt’s erotic
thriller ‘Murder’ directed by Anurag Basu. With the help
of her talent and her skin show, it became a huge hit.
She was nominated in the 'Best Actress' category in the
Zee Cine Awards.
She also was fortunate to act with Dharmendra in ‘Kis
Kis Ki Kismat’ and Rekha in ‘Bachke Rehna Re Baba’. She
got the chance to work with Ram Gopal Varma production
for the film ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’ and in Subhash Ghai
production for ‘Shaadi Se Pehle’. And to top it all she
will also work with Mani Ratnam in the new film ‘Guru’.
‘Don’ is another project that look good.
Her biggest achievement came when she got to star
opposite Jakie Chan in ‘The Myth’. She also got to
appear at the Cannes film festival. She even got an
offer to pose nude for Playboy magazine, but she
rejected it.
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