Actress Mallika Sherawat usually leaves nothing to imagination in her films but in a new movie she will do an even bolder role.
Mallika has dropped her bikini and put on a burqa in Unveiled, her second English language film after The Myth.
An eight-minute cameo appearance in action star Jackie Chan’s The Myth earned Mallika a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2005 but it did it little else for her career.
In Unveiled, Mallika gets a chance to play a much more meatier role. She is a Muslim woman who journeys through three continents. If fans think Mallika has become coy, sample this: she has two husbands and one lover in the film.
“She has flaws and her morals are questionable but she is a very normal person. She is not a shadow behind the burqa and she is very sexy,” said Mallika at a press meet while speaking about her role.
The film’s director Bill Bannerman, who has assisted Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven and Bridges of Madison County, says he is a Mallika fan.
“I have seen Pyar Ke Side Effects, Murder and Myth but it was after watching Murder that I knew she was the one,” said Bannerman.
The film will go on the floors in the last quarter of this year and till then Mallika is keeping her fingers crossed.”I prayed to all the Haryanvi gods and I’m convinced god is Haryanvi,” she said.
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