1. Mallika Sherawat is known for appearing in several popular item numbers.
23 Facts About Mallika Sherawat
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Mallika Sherawat was born as Reema Lamba in Moth, a small village in Hisar district of Haryana to a Jat family.
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Mallika Sherawat adopted the screen name of "Mallika", meaning "empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema.
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Mallika Sherawat has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of the support that her mother has provided her.
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Mallika Sherawat has a degree in philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University.
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However, Mallika Sherawat's family has rebutted this as a story created by her to give her an aura of a rustic girl who made it big in Bollywood.
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Mallika Sherawat appeared in Nirmal Pandey's "Maar Dala" and Surjit Bindrakhia's "Lak Tunoo" music video.
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Mallika Sherawat debuted in films with a small role in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye where she was credited as Reema Lamba.
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Mallika Sherawat attracted notice with her appearance in the 2003 film, Khwahish.
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Since then, Mallika Sherawat has been known for expressing her opinions in public, as well for the reaction to some of her statements.
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In 2005, Mallika Sherawat acted in The Myth, a Chinese film, co-starring with Jackie Chan.
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Mallika Sherawat played an Indian girl who saves Chan's character from a river.
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Mallika Sherawat appeared in item numbers in films such as Thank You, Bin Bulaye Baraati and in Osthe, which is a Tamil film.
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Mallika Sherawat has performed in Kismat Love Paisa Dilli, in which she will be playing a Haryanvi.
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On 23 October 2013 Mallika Sherawat staring reality dating show called Bachelorette India - Mere Khayalon ki Mallika Sherawat was aired which was adopted from The Bachelorette to find the perfect bachelor for herself.
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Mallika Sherawat promoted it with live snakes at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.
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Mallika Sherawat starred in another Hollywood film, Politics of Love, aka Love, Barack, directed by William Dear.
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Mallika Sherawat plays Aretha Gupta, a devoted local Obama volunteer coordinator.
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Mallika Sherawat won the 2008 Renaissance Artist Award at the 16th Annual Diversity Awards held in California.
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On 14 August 2009, Mallika Sherawat received honorary citizenship of Los Angeles in recognition of her career achievements and charitable work.
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In 2012 Mallika Sherawat featured with American pop star Bruno Mars in his parody video of Salt-n-Pepa's "Whatta Man" for the comedy website Funny or Die.
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Mallika Sherawat kept her marriage a secret as the stigma of divorce would've prevented her rise in Bollywood.
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Mallika Sherawat dated French real estate agent Cyrille Auxenfans in 2017.