Actress Mallika Sherawat plans to return to the big screen with her upcoming film, Rk/RKay. She made her Bollywood debut in 2003 with Khwaish. Later, she rose to fame as a result of Anurag Basu’s romantic suspense thriller Murder (2004), which starred Emraan Hashmi. The tense exchanges between Mallika and Emraan throughout the film contributed to it becoming one of the year’s biggest successes. Meanwhile, the actress opened up about how she felt shamed for taking on dangerous roles in her films in a recent interview. She remarked that although women were nasty to her for some reason, Indian men had always adored her.
In a conversation with Mashable India, Mallika discussed how she faced criticism for acting in “radical situations” in India. She stated, “I think my glamour was overwhelming for them. I am unapologetic about it. I wore a bikini in murder and actresses have worn a bikini before me also but I was so nonchalant about it. I was like I have a great body. Do you want me to wear a saree at the beach? No, I will wear a bikini and I celebrated my body because for me that was very liberating for me. But that was too much to handle for people, especially women. Men have had no problems with me. Men love me in India and I love them back. It’s just some women who are so vicious to me. I don’t know why because I love sisterhood. I love to support money.”
The Welcome star previously talked about how she experienced emotional assault from a section of the industry while filming her upcoming movie. She told Prabhat Khabar the only thing people spoke about was her “powerful image.”
“Such hue and cry were created when I did Murder. People said all kinds of things about the kiss and the bikini. What Deepika Padukone did in Gehraiyaan, I did that 15 years ago, but people were too narrow-minded back then. I should tell you that a section of the industry and media was mentally torturing me. These people only talked about my body and glamour, not my acting. I worked in Dasavatharam, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, and Welcome, but none talked about my acting.”
The movie RK/RKay, which will be released in theatres on July 22, is now being promoted by Mallika Sherawat. The Rajat Kapoor-written and -directed film has prominent performances by Kubbra Sait, Ranvir Shorey, Manu Rishi Chadha, Chandrachoor Rai, Abhijeet Deshpande, Abhishek Sharrma, Grace Girdhar, and Vaishali Malhara.
