Mallika Sherawat, sex symbol of India was born on October 24, 1981 in Haryana, India.
Her birth name is Reema Lamba. She adopted the screen name of Mallika, which means "empress" to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema.
She worked as an air hostess prior to entering films and it was around this time that she married a pilot, Karan Singh Gill. They are now divorced.
She has done her degree in philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University.
She made news with her movie Khwahish, in which she kissed her co star Himanshu Malik 17 times on screen.
In 2004, she starred in 'Murder', that again challenged Indian film standards. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year.
She also received a nomination for Best Actress at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony for her performance in 'Murder'.
Sherawat has been known for her courage to express her opinions in public and went on to make headlines through her outfits and blunt statements.
She also made news when she won a small role in a Jackie Chan movie, 'The Myth', where she again appeared in revealing costumes.
Mallika kissing Jackie Chan at the premiere of 'The Myth'.Labels: Mallika Sherawat
NEW YORK - A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition — an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin. "I was a little bit shocked," Miss England Georgia Horsley said Friday in an interview on NBC's "Today" show
I don't think I'm too thin. I'm happy with the way I am," said the 20-year-old, who is a size 4. She added: "I probably would have been more hurt if they told me to lose weight, I think."
Horsley said pageant organizers want "their girls to be more voluptuous and womanly and curvy, you know, rather than the stick-thin, size-0 models that you see around."
"I've just got quite more of an athletic, boyish-type figure rather than the hourglass figure that some women have," said the 5-foot-8 Horsley. "And they're just seeing if, you know, I could maybe put a bit of weight on and it might give me those curves."
The Miss World press office didn't immediately respond Friday to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Horsley has little more than a month to gain weight: the Miss World pageant will be held in China on Dec. 1.
"They've not given me a total (weight) to get to," she said. "But I'm going to eat, you know, healthy fats such as nuts and avocado, oily fish, things like that."
Horsley said the request was no big deal, comparing it to being asked to get a tan or let her hair grow.
"I don't think this is a major, major thing, you know," she said. "They just want me to put on a few pounds."
Sure, but what if she gains weight in all the wrong places?
"I'm trying to work out at the same time," she said. "It'll hopefully maybe level things out a bit. But, I mean, if I do start putting weight on, say, my stomach or somewhere on my thighs where I don't really want to put it on ... I'll obviously scrap the idea and I'll just accept the fact that I'm a naturally athletic build and can't do the curves."
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Showgirls(1995)-Sometimes a film that's meant to be sexy just isn't. On the surface, Showgirls has got all the ingredients for a real trouser-stirrer but, somehow, Paul Verhoeven's Las Vegas stripper flick is tacky when it should be arousing, and funnywhen it should be raunchy, so much so that it's become a kitsch classic. Particularly OTT is the swimming pool sex between Elizabeth Berkeley and Kyle Maclachlan - he wears a look of furious concentration, she thrashes around like a woman possessed
