“I faced a lot of opposition from my family and I fought the patriarchy,” Mallika Sherawat Talking about his early years in Bollywood, he said. The actor opened up about his family and expressed how his parents and siblings were “extremely conservative” and had “no support.”
Mallika Sherawat was born as Reema Lamba. When asked what prompted her to change her name, Mallika said that she also faces social stereotypes at that stage of her life. “My father was like – she would go to the movies and ruin the family name. She turned me down. So I turned down her name. I adapted my mother’s name. Sherawat is my mother’s name,” he told Bollywood Bubble. Told. In an interview given to
Mallika made her debut in 2002 with Jeena Sirf Mere Liye. But she rose to fame with Murder which released in 2004, which gave her the tag of a bold heroine. He was judged for his liking by the audience, his contemporaries and even the filmmakers. “There were a lot of judgments that she has no morals, she is a fallen woman. Watch kaise do scenes, do kisses. Wearing a bikini… this and that, but it is all part of the experience,” Mallika said, adding that she is glad that the audience has become “tolerant” today.
The HIS actor is all set to make his web-series debut with Naam, which sees him in a never-before-seen avatar. Talking about OTT, Mallika said that the digital space is a boon for women artistes. “For actresses, OTT has come as a boon. Look at Shefali Shah. She is leading a show. This is not possible in main stream. Mainstream follows a formula, which has worked wonderfully for me but I love OTT,” she concluded.
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