Mallika Sherawat on Bollywood’s kissing mantra and her new Hollywood venture
On Bollywood’s lack of reality
Bollywood is yet to make realistic films depicting the harsh realities of life, the way life is every day. For example, kissing is still not very open in Bollywood but it’s part of our lives and it’s something very natural.
Also, we need to be very quality conscious, we need to make more quality films and I would want more female-centred roles, more films centred around a woman. That I think is lacking here.
On kissing in films
In some of the films when you’re kissing, instead of the kiss they’ll show birds flying, thunderstorms happening…But it’s changing now. I’m so glad new filmmakers are writing realistic scripts and I’m so glad my last film ‘Pyar Ke Side Effects’ was very honest and people liked it - it was a huge hit which shows a changing trend completely.
On her new Hollywood venture
I’ve just signed an American film called ‘Unveiled’ which is to be directed by Clint Eastwood’s Associate Director Bill Bannerman. It’s a movie which is like ‘A Million Dollar Baby’ or ‘Monster’, where the central character is a woman. It’s quite significant for me because, although ‘The Myth’ with Jackie Chan took me to the Cannes Festival and gave me a lot of exposure, there wasn’t a lot of acting required, it was more like being a Bond girl, an Asian Bond, run around and a few screams but this is going to be my major acting role where its going to be completely deglamourized and completely going to get under the skin of the character.
On being influenced by Charlize and Salma
It gives me great joy that I am independent and I am doing the kind of cinema that I want to do. I admire Charlize Theron, I admire Salma Hayek. I want to do cinema like that and I’ve taken baby steps towards it - that’s what’s so exciting!
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