Stands tall at height 5.6 1/2 and is a Scorpio.
Did several ads and music videos before her film debut—including the Santro ad with Shah Rukh Khan .
Is the first Indian woman to get an offer to pose nude for Playboy magazine and appear on the cover.
She refused fearing industry reactions.
Hong Kong`s fashion magazine, Cover, declared Mallika Sherawat as one among the 100 most beautiful women in Asia.
Listed No 4 by the UK magazine Eastern Eye in their `Asia`s Sexiest Women` list in 2006.
In January 2007, she attended the wedding of Princess Myasa, King Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa`s daughter, in Qatar.
Mallika is good friends with the Princess.
Her performance at the televised 2006 New Year`s Eve show at the hotel JW Marriot, in Mumbai, caused a social activist to urge police to take action against the actress.
The cops did not entertain the complaint, but her outfit did cause furore with TV channels obsessing over it for days.
Quotable quotesThis one is this writer’s favourite—On her earning Rs 3.5 crore for a CD endorsement deal:
“It’s about time that filmmakers in India stop telling actresses that we look like a million dollars and start paying us that.”
On why she’s not working with A-listers:
“I feel that everyone has a place in the industry and I feel my place is not beside the A-listers. I have always considered myself more of a character actor.”
On attending the Cannes Film Festival:
“The first thought that flashed through my mind was, `Where did my journey begin and look where I am today`. It seems a really long trip from Rohtak to Cannes. Jackie Chan launched me there as an actress! Madonna made her first statement in Cannes when she wore the conical bra, Brigitte Bardot and Grace Kelly were launched there.`
On her grit and ambition (in a 2005 interview):“I exist because I can act. I will not sit here and say, `Arrey, by chance, offer aa gaya`. No, I made acting happen to me. The first opportunity I got to act, I grabbed it. Also, I think I chose the right scripts. Like Robert De Niro says, ‘Talent is in the choice you make!``
On being criticised for kissing scenes:
`For God`s sake, I am a young girl. Do I look like a nun to you? If the hero can enjoy the kiss, why can`t I?`
On critics relating her success to skin-show:
“Those who think it`s just my body that got me where I am, they should take a look at the others who have rushed in after me. They haven`t gone beyond their first feverish film`.
On her acting role edited out from Jeena Sirf Merre Liye (2002):
“I had a song with Tusshar Kapoor and they cut it. I’m so happy nobody went to the theatres to watch the film. The only people who must have watched the film were Tusshar’s family, my family, and Kareena’s.
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