“Is it exciting to move from bikini to burqa,” questioned Mallika Sherawat on being asked if she will wear a veil in her Hollywood foray
Unveiled at a press meet to make the announcement. Directed by Bill Bannerman, Unveiled is the story of an Asian Muslim woman who
dares to break free from the clutches of stereotypes. And hold your freaky horses guys, Mallika shall have to deal with two husbands and a lover in
the film. The normally reticent Mayya Mayya babe looking gorgeous in a tiny red number with streaks of coloured hair, tried to bridge distance
with the media by vocally making herself available to all their queries.
Hmmm….two husbands and a lover…Sounds interesting…Any steamy scenes in the film? “Ask Bill,” Mallika passed the baton. “It will be an
entertaining film. It’s a thriller that focuses on the journey of this woman. It has multiple characters and is based in multiple countries. It’s going to be
a movie that will catch you off guard for it enters a world that is artistically great,” Bannerman clarified without giving away if Sherawat shall have to
live up to her sex symbol image in this film that in Mallika’s own words is a “performance oriented role.”
For all those who have no dope on Bill Bannerman, well, collect the beans that are about to be spilled. He has a background in visual effects and
has been an assistant director to the likes of Michael Crichton, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Frank Marshall and Jerry Paris.
As Mallika expressed her surprise on having had to do a screen test in Los Angeles, Bannerman narrated the Hollywood working style where even
Academy Award winning actors do screen tests for suitable roles. On being asked if he foresees any controversy surrounding Unveiled as it
seems to be a Western perspective of the Muslim world considering the present world scenario, the director was at a loss of words. Mallika asked
the media if they thought it’s a controversial subject. “Yes,” was the loud answer…
What is it in this character that appealed to you? “It’s very unique. Every woman would cheer for her. It’s a struggle in a man’s world. Since I myself
have struggled for my personal survivor I relate to it even more.” What are you doing next in Hindi films? “Fauj Mein Mauj. I am very
passionate about Bollywood. I’ve always been very choosy. I would continue to be choosy.” What kind of roles excite you? “I am looking at good
roles.” The Myth didn’t do much for your career in West. What special care are you taking this time not to repeat the mistake of past? “In a
James Bond film, even Hale Barry doesn’t have much footage. The Myth was a Jackie Chan film. And I am glad that you missed me in the
film.”
Well, you may not agree with her care-a-damn attitude all the time, but one thing you can’t ignore is that Madam M loves getting Noticed. And she
does that in style. No, there won’t be any song-n-dance in Unveiled as “it’s a Hollywood film” but one thing you can safely say is that Mallika
Sherawat will continue to be in news in the days to come. And by-the-way, Unveiled shall release in the first half of 2008. To the news
channels who were speculating about her age, we’d say, guys go take a hike. This shapely-gal looks million dollars. Anyday…
Monday, March 12, 2007
Monday, October 30, 2006
What is the age of Mallika Sherawat?
Yet another controversy has surfaced regarding Bollywood sex-kitten Mallika Sherawat and this one concerns her age.
The tabloids insist that Mallika cannot be 25 years old as claimed by her mother. Instead, she could well be 35 years old.
A private TV channel even aired Mallika's group photo taken in way back 1995 when she was working as an airhostess. Records show her age then to be 24 years old!
Mallika, who celebrated a birthday earlier this week, is however amused by all the speculation.
Talking to a leading news channel, she joked, "You know something. I'm 45 and I have two grandkids. “ It's just that about me there's more misinformation than information. And surprisingly, they inflate all my positives and negatives. They inflate my ego, my success, my failure -- and now they've inflated my age!"
Having earned rave reviews for her performance in Pyar Ke Side Effects , Mallika will be now seen as an ex-CIA agent in a movie ‘Dasavatharam’ with Kamal Haasan , where the actor himself plays a record-breaking ten roles!
Reveals Ravi Kumar, director of the movie, "Mallika agreed to do the movie even before she saw the script. She plays a bold, modern girl. It was a pleasure working with her as she would report every morning at seven on the dot."
"But one had to be professional since Kamal himself would reach the sets around 2.30 -3 am everyday! He would do his make-up for about five hours and by the time Mallika arrived he would be ready for the shot,” he adds.
So while her kitty is full of work why is she keeping a low profile these days?
"I really haven't been keeping a low profile. I just think and believe that it is time for me to shut up and do some good work. I've blabbed enough," Mallika gushes.
The tabloids insist that Mallika cannot be 25 years old as claimed by her mother. Instead, she could well be 35 years old.
A private TV channel even aired Mallika's group photo taken in way back 1995 when she was working as an airhostess. Records show her age then to be 24 years old!
Mallika, who celebrated a birthday earlier this week, is however amused by all the speculation.
Talking to a leading news channel, she joked, "You know something. I'm 45 and I have two grandkids. “ It's just that about me there's more misinformation than information. And surprisingly, they inflate all my positives and negatives. They inflate my ego, my success, my failure -- and now they've inflated my age!"
Having earned rave reviews for her performance in Pyar Ke Side Effects , Mallika will be now seen as an ex-CIA agent in a movie ‘Dasavatharam’ with Kamal Haasan , where the actor himself plays a record-breaking ten roles!
Reveals Ravi Kumar, director of the movie, "Mallika agreed to do the movie even before she saw the script. She plays a bold, modern girl. It was a pleasure working with her as she would report every morning at seven on the dot."
"But one had to be professional since Kamal himself would reach the sets around 2.30 -3 am everyday! He would do his make-up for about five hours and by the time Mallika arrived he would be ready for the shot,” he adds.
So while her kitty is full of work why is she keeping a low profile these days?
"I really haven't been keeping a low profile. I just think and believe that it is time for me to shut up and do some good work. I've blabbed enough," Mallika gushes.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Mallika Sherawat plays an ex-CIA agent
Bollywood’s sex kitten plays a unique embodiment of oomph and IQ in Kamal Haasan’s movie.
Mallika Sherawat ’s southern sojourn is sure generating lots of hype. To start with, the lissome girl teams up with Kamal Haasan in the bilingual (Tamil and Hindi) movie ‘Dasavatharam’.
The film will have Mallika playing an ex-CIA agent, while Haasan plays as many as ten different roles. It is learnt that Mallika was so excited about working with Haasan that she gave her consent to the project even before reading the script.
Mallika will also give some steamy scenes with Haasan in the movie. Her character is that of a bold, sexy and intelligent girl.
On a different front, Mallika has also agreed to do an item number in the Kannada film Preethi Eke Bhoomi Melidhe by Ashwini Ram Prasad.
Well, it appears Mallika is ready to leave her mark downsouth also.
Source: ApunKaChoice
Mallika Sherawat ’s southern sojourn is sure generating lots of hype. To start with, the lissome girl teams up with Kamal Haasan in the bilingual (Tamil and Hindi) movie ‘Dasavatharam’.
The film will have Mallika playing an ex-CIA agent, while Haasan plays as many as ten different roles. It is learnt that Mallika was so excited about working with Haasan that she gave her consent to the project even before reading the script.
Mallika will also give some steamy scenes with Haasan in the movie. Her character is that of a bold, sexy and intelligent girl.
On a different front, Mallika has also agreed to do an item number in the Kannada film Preethi Eke Bhoomi Melidhe by Ashwini Ram Prasad.
Well, it appears Mallika is ready to leave her mark downsouth also.
Source: ApunKaChoice
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Mallika to join the item girl band wagon down south
Mallika Sherawat is all set to debut as an item girl in a South film called Preethi Eke Bhoomi Melidhe. Apparently, she has charged the makers a bomb for the film which requires just six days of shoot. This is not the first time she will be seen in the south. She also starred in a Kamal Hassan film.
Apart from this she is also doing an item number in Mani Ratnam’s Guru starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai and it may be recalled that she refused an item number in Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay.
Another item girl Yana Gupta, who has done songs like Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo and What a babe previously, has been signed to another item number. This time for Smita Thackeray’s next home production Kaise Kahe. The song titled Teri Yaadein was shot recently and the music was given by Ankur Tiwari.
Source: IndiaFM
Apart from this she is also doing an item number in Mani Ratnam’s Guru starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai and it may be recalled that she refused an item number in Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay.
Another item girl Yana Gupta, who has done songs like Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo and What a babe previously, has been signed to another item number. This time for Smita Thackeray’s next home production Kaise Kahe. The song titled Teri Yaadein was shot recently and the music was given by Ankur Tiwari.
Source: IndiaFM
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
No Matter What, Mallika’s Hot
No matter what, Mallika’s Hot. There are stories doing the round speculating Mallika Sherawat’s age. According to a picture dated 1995 floating in various media circles, Mallika is said to be 23 then. That makes her to be 34 today (And she says that she is 25). Now, I fail to understand as long as she is oogle-worthy-with-dollars-of-oomph, why does anyone have to get after her ‘true age’.
In Hollywood, a Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz touch their sexiest peak in their mid thirties, so why do we have to have this regressive mentality with Bollywood babes. Mallika is looking ravishing in the promos of ‘Pyaar Ke Side Effects’, she continues to be the fantasy of both the masses as well as the classes, then why pull skeletons out of her cabinet just to prove-a-point. Till the time you can’t click those wrinkles, let the Seven Up Gini Girl sizzle you with her curves. As I’d said in the beginning…I’d reiterate…No matter what, Mallika’s Hot.
Source: Indiaglitz
In Hollywood, a Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz touch their sexiest peak in their mid thirties, so why do we have to have this regressive mentality with Bollywood babes. Mallika is looking ravishing in the promos of ‘Pyaar Ke Side Effects’, she continues to be the fantasy of both the masses as well as the classes, then why pull skeletons out of her cabinet just to prove-a-point. Till the time you can’t click those wrinkles, let the Seven Up Gini Girl sizzle you with her curves. As I’d said in the beginning…I’d reiterate…No matter what, Mallika’s Hot.
Source: Indiaglitz
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Mallika responsible for Sleaze
Internationally acclaimed film-maker Jahnu Barua has called for a vibrant society to check the rising number of 'Mallika Sherawat-brand' of heroines, blaming the phenomenon on the negative aspect of 'liberalisation of Indian cinema'.
He also urged the need to produce world-class movies, citing the example of Iran, which makes a dozen films annually but all top-class.
The Padmashree awardee was delivering the fourth Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla Memorial Lecture on 'The New Trend in Indian Cinema - Thematically, Aesthetically and Technologically', organised by the Gauhati Cine Club, here yesterday.
Mr Barua traced the origin of the type of commercial cinema we are seeing now to the economic liberalisation of 1991. He said, "Cinema is a huge economic investment, the content of Indian cinema was forced to go through rapid changes with the advent of new economic policies."
While the liberalisation encouraged the film-makers to experiment with new themes, the multiplexes and various TV channels provided a platform for these films.
He said the audience for 'alternative' cinema, which always existed, could be identified with these changes and films like "15 Park Avenue", "Everyone says I'm Fine" and "My Brother Nikhil could be counted in hits.
English language Indian films and use of English in Hindi films was also growing, he added.
Moreover, liberalisation also helped in bringing the true talents to the fore, he added.
The 15 international-level award winner pointed out that this had also set in mediocrity and a lot of 'non-talent' had arrived.
Mr Barua said liberalisation had brought in 'corporatisation', which had changed the look of the mainstream movies.
He claimed that the heroine's image had been hit the hardest by this concept with the heroine taking over the vamp's role, as it made more economic sense to the producers.
Quoting film critic Ajit Duara, Mr Barua said the success of Murder and Mallika Sherawat led to a glut of films like Girlfriend, Julie and Zeher, which saw the marketing of the heroine as 'commodities'.
Mr Barua opined that the current bunch of heroines, starting their careers as models might have fanned the phenomenon as these girls were trained in a profession where 'creation of icons' is the primary target.
Elaborating on the negative side of the liberalisation of Indian cinema, the director said subjects or stories were being given the least importance. "The most interesting effect is in how it has transformed the traditional story telling into something that is mostly borrowed from the West," he added.
While appreciating the technological advances film making has seen over the years, Mr Barua said if ripped of its technological gimmicks, most films of the present lot would have no base at all.
He said funding of films had become easier now but 'frequently the source is obscure and there are many vested interests involved'.
He also lamented that organisations like NFDC and CFSI were not getting adequate funding, due to which quality films were not being promoted.
On the regional cinema scene, Mr Barua, who has to his credit 10 Assamese films, said the condition was pathetic.
It was more so for Assamese, Manipuri, Oriya, Kannada or Bengali films compared to Hindi, Tamil or Telegu films as 'it has become a question of survival not a new trend'.
Mr Barua lamented the fact that there was 'hardly any new trend in our cinema'.
He said there were only some haphazard changes in contemporary cinema, which have proved to be too short lived and purposeless.
Mr Barua called for discussions on the current scenerio of Indian films and asked the audience to discard films which failed to portray society properly.
Source: Santabanta
He also urged the need to produce world-class movies, citing the example of Iran, which makes a dozen films annually but all top-class.
The Padmashree awardee was delivering the fourth Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla Memorial Lecture on 'The New Trend in Indian Cinema - Thematically, Aesthetically and Technologically', organised by the Gauhati Cine Club, here yesterday.
Mr Barua traced the origin of the type of commercial cinema we are seeing now to the economic liberalisation of 1991. He said, "Cinema is a huge economic investment, the content of Indian cinema was forced to go through rapid changes with the advent of new economic policies."
While the liberalisation encouraged the film-makers to experiment with new themes, the multiplexes and various TV channels provided a platform for these films.
He said the audience for 'alternative' cinema, which always existed, could be identified with these changes and films like "15 Park Avenue", "Everyone says I'm Fine" and "My Brother Nikhil could be counted in hits.
English language Indian films and use of English in Hindi films was also growing, he added.
Moreover, liberalisation also helped in bringing the true talents to the fore, he added.
The 15 international-level award winner pointed out that this had also set in mediocrity and a lot of 'non-talent' had arrived.
Mr Barua said liberalisation had brought in 'corporatisation', which had changed the look of the mainstream movies.
He claimed that the heroine's image had been hit the hardest by this concept with the heroine taking over the vamp's role, as it made more economic sense to the producers.
Quoting film critic Ajit Duara, Mr Barua said the success of Murder and Mallika Sherawat led to a glut of films like Girlfriend, Julie and Zeher, which saw the marketing of the heroine as 'commodities'.
Mr Barua opined that the current bunch of heroines, starting their careers as models might have fanned the phenomenon as these girls were trained in a profession where 'creation of icons' is the primary target.
Elaborating on the negative side of the liberalisation of Indian cinema, the director said subjects or stories were being given the least importance. "The most interesting effect is in how it has transformed the traditional story telling into something that is mostly borrowed from the West," he added.
While appreciating the technological advances film making has seen over the years, Mr Barua said if ripped of its technological gimmicks, most films of the present lot would have no base at all.
He said funding of films had become easier now but 'frequently the source is obscure and there are many vested interests involved'.
He also lamented that organisations like NFDC and CFSI were not getting adequate funding, due to which quality films were not being promoted.
On the regional cinema scene, Mr Barua, who has to his credit 10 Assamese films, said the condition was pathetic.
It was more so for Assamese, Manipuri, Oriya, Kannada or Bengali films compared to Hindi, Tamil or Telegu films as 'it has become a question of survival not a new trend'.
Mr Barua lamented the fact that there was 'hardly any new trend in our cinema'.
He said there were only some haphazard changes in contemporary cinema, which have proved to be too short lived and purposeless.
Mr Barua called for discussions on the current scenerio of Indian films and asked the audience to discard films which failed to portray society properly.
Source: Santabanta
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Mallika to play villain
By Indo Asian News Service
Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat will play a negative role in Kamal Haasan's forthcoming Tamil film 'Dasavataram'.
Kamal told the media that Mallika had accepted the role of a villain.
He said the brief discussion took place when she was here recently for shooting in Mani Ratnam-directed 'Guru', in which she plays a crucial cameo role.
According to Kamal, Mallika told him she was 'prepared to play any role' in a film made by him. Kamal is playing 10 different roles in the film.
Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat will play a negative role in Kamal Haasan's forthcoming Tamil film 'Dasavataram'.
Kamal told the media that Mallika had accepted the role of a villain.
He said the brief discussion took place when she was here recently for shooting in Mani Ratnam-directed 'Guru', in which she plays a crucial cameo role.
According to Kamal, Mallika told him she was 'prepared to play any role' in a film made by him. Kamal is playing 10 different roles in the film.
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