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[This post belongs to Desi Galaxy's Babe Of The Month series. Where Mallika Sherawat is the babe of the month for April 2007]

Mallika Sherawat is in the news almost every day, still there is little we know about her past. She was born on October 24 1976 in Rohtak District, Haryana, India. She came from an orthodox family. She is alienated by her parents and family who are all very religious and don’t like what Mallika working in movies. In an interview Mallika told:

I have always wanted to be an actress. In spite of strong opposition from my orthodox family, I came to Mumbai in 2002 on completion of my graduation from Delhi University. In fact, I ran off from home to pursue my career. I knew my parents would never let me be an actress, so I had to take the bold step. However, I have a strong support from my kid brother Vikram, whom I love more than anything else in this world.

Mallika earned a degree in philosophy and graduated from Miranda House, Delhi University. Miranda house is a college for women, part of the Delhi University, this is the same school where actress Nandita Dass studied to obtain her Master’s degree in social work, and Mira Nair (critically acclaimed film maker) who studied socialogy there.

Mallika Sherawat’s real name is Reema Lamba. She adopted the screen name Mallika to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema. Sherawat is her mother’s maiden name, Mallika said that she used Sherawat to thank her mother.

Mallika worked as an airhostess for some time. Even though Mallika has claimed to be a virgin, but this is a fact and she has also admitted that she married a pilot Karan Singh Gill for a berief period, the marriage ended in a divorce. Mallika doesn’t talk about her marriage and has often said that she hasn’t found the right person to get into a relationship.

Mallika started her career in Hindi Movies as an actress with Jeena Sirf Mere Liye 2002 which was a Tushar Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor movie and Mallika had a small role in the movie. Mallika has spoken often that her role was edited out from the movie. She told Stardust Magazine in March 2003:

I had a song with Tusshar Kapoor in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye and they cut it. I’m so happy nobody went to the theaters to watch the film. The only people who must have watched the film were Tusshar’s family, my family and Kareena’s

Next year Mallika appeared in Khawahish, the movied failed at the box office, but with all the over exposure of Mallika’s body through out the movie, Mallika didn’t go un-noticed. She then appeared in Mahesh Bhatt’s Murder.

With Murder, Mallika won mass approval from the audiences and the movie became the most successful hit of the year. This movied was based on a popular foriegn film Unfaithful. Mallika appeared in revealing out fits in the movie. Mallika Sherawat and Emran Hashmi Kissing scenes from murder were sensational as lip to lip kissing was considered taboo in Hindi movies at that time. Murder was a trend setter that allowed film makers to make up their minds and include kissing scenes in their movies if the script demands. Mallika was nominated best actress Zee Cine Awards for her role in Murder.

Since then Mallika never looked back. She is always in news controversies around her outfits, clothes, exposing her body in movies, kissing scenes, blunt statements and stage performances.

Her performance at the televised 2006 New Year’s Eve show at the hotel J.W. Marriot, in Mumbai, caused social activist Vinod Jain to urge police to take immediate action against the actress for wearing suggestive clothing. Mallika was dressed in a body-hugging skin suit and a silver bikini to top it. He said that Mallika’s dancing was distasteful and and portrayed Indian women indecently. Jain approached the Santa Cruz police station about the matter, but they told him that no one filed a complaint against her.

Sources: Wikipedia - Mallika Sherawat, IMDB Mallika Sherawat.