Mallika Sherawat opens up about not working with Bollywood Star's, ‘Male actors started taking liberties’

The actress was brought into the world as Reema Lamba and fled from home to turn into an actress in Bollywood. Since her introduction, Mallika has showed up in various movies.

She got the country's consideration when she played out a couple of strong scenes with Emraan Hashmi in Murder.She later featured in movies like Khwahish, Welcome, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, and Dasavatharam. Universally, she did movies like The Myth, with Jackie Chan, and Politics of Love.

In one of the interviews she says that though she has very popular in 2000s era she didn't work with the big stars in the film Industry as they wanted her to 'compromise'“The only reason I have lost out on roles is because I refused to give in to male actors, big stars who wanted certain things from me, who wanted me to compromise. You know I come from Haryana, I have a lot of self respect, and a lot of pride. I said I will not compromise. I don’t need to be in your big movies, that’s why till date I have never acted with any A-lister male hero, and besides that I have survived, and that itself is a testimony,”

With murder and Khawaish movies she became very renowned actress but she said she didn't get to face her casting couch 'directly'“I haven’t faced it directly… My rise to stardom, I was very lucky, it was very easy. I came to Mumbai, I got Khwahish and Murder. I didn’t have to struggle much. But after the movies, because Murder was such a bold movie, and that kind of a bold image was established, a lot of male actors started taking a lot of liberties with me, and they said if you can be so bold onscreen, so you can be bold with us in person also,” she said.

The big bollywood actors didn't work with me because all they wanted me to compromise and didn't know the difference between onscreen and ofscreen act.“They did not differentiate between the onscreen and offscreen persona, so that is where I faced a lot of difficult situations, because I am a very strong woman, and I would tell the male actor, ‘I am sorry, I am not going to compromise’. I haven’t come to Bollywood to compromise, I have come here to make a career. That’s why they have never worked with me,” she said.

On the workfront she was lastly seen in the films like Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Welcome, Ugly Aur Pagli and recently in MX player webseries Nakaab.