By Subhash K Jha
BOLLYWOOD: Bollywood and Hollywood actress Mallika Sherawat celebrated her 44 birthday on October 24.
“I hv never felt more lucky to be alive! Thanking God for all the wonderful blessings & so Grateful for all the love. Let the party begin,” the actress tweeted.
I hv never felt more lucky to be alive! Thanking God for all the wonderful blessings & so Grateful for all the love ?Let the party begin ???? #birthdaygirl #birthday pic.twitter.com/WlkhCTiW6y
— Mallika Sherawat (@mallikasherawat) October 24, 2020
Here are 10 facts about Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat that you may not know:
1. India’s no.1 paper star,original name Reema Lamba.Hails from Rohtak, the same district of Haryana as Randeep Hooda. The two have never met.
2. Started her career with a supporting role as Kareena Kapoor’s saheli in Vashu Bhagnani’s Jeena Sirrf Tere Liye ( an unofficial remake of the Noorajehan-Suraiya starrer Anmol Ghadi) where her vibes with Kareena were icy cold.
3. Billed Reema Lamba in her first film. In Murder she abandoned that name to adopt her mother’s name Sherawat.She also abandoned all her legacy from the past including a pilot-husband.
4. First film as leading lady Khwahish was directed by Mallika bhakt Govind Menon. A scene by scene word by word rip-off of Erich Segal’s Love Story the film boasted of a record number of kisses.
5. Didn’t get along with her Khwahish co-star who complained the director was too besotted to pay attention to anyone except Mallika. Mallika didn’t get along with Murder co-star Emraan Hashmi either. Surprisingly she hit it off with Rahul Bose the most. They did the successful Pyar Ke Side Effects and the flop Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam together.
6. Conservative father never approved of her ambitions. The daughter and father remained hostile towards one another for a very long time while her Mallika’s mother and brother were cool about her ambitions from the start.The cold war ended when Mallika became what her official website describes as a ‘Bollywood superstar’. A debatable, claim like all her other claims.
7. Made her affections for Dharmendra very clear while working with him in one of her early flops Kiss Kiss Ki Kismat. Claimed her mother had a crush on Garam Dharam.Mallika’s unstoppable attention embarrassed both Dhamendra and his wife Hema Malini.
8. Claimed to be a virgin while shooting Murder. Told this writer she lived like a nun. Didn’t specify which convent she belonged to.
9. Claims she has a thriving career awaiting in Hollywood , that she knows half the celebrities in Hollywood and has selfies with them to prove it. However her only ‘American’ film Republic Of Love is shelved has been shelved for years now.Her other firangi film Hisss finished off American director Jennifer Lynch’s career.Jennifer told this writer it was a nightmare trying to make Hisss. And sources from the American film industry claim she has never been approached for any other project.
10. Dirty Politics is Mallika’s first Bollywood film in four years. Her last release Kismat Love Paisa Dilli (KLPD, ahem ahem) effectively killed off her co-star Vivek Oberoi’s career as a leading man. In her entire Bollywood career of 12 years, she has been in 13 flops and only 2 hits. We are not counting the item songs.
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