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Mumbai, Sep 2 – After a long stay in Los Angeles, Bollywood’s glamour girl Mallika Sherawat has returned to India.

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August 27, 2010:Bollywood’s sexy bombshell Mallika Sherawat almost disappeared from the industry after her 2008 movie Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam. The actress turned westward for some time.

Mumbai, Aug 25 – Mallika Sherawat, known to charge anything from Rs.1-Rs.1.5 crore in Bollywood, has signed on the dotted line for the ‘Dhamaal’ sequel without.

Mallika Sherawat seems to have become too busy for Bollywood ever since she’s started working on her biggies from the West, here’s some good news for the actress’ Indian fans. According to the latest buzz, Mallika has replaced Vidya Balan in the much-awaited sequel of comedy flick ‘Dhamaal’.

Mallika, who’s actually looking forward to the release of her Hollywood ventures ‘Hisss’ and ‘Love Barrack’, in India, has been roped in by filmmaker Indra Kumar for his upcoming  movie ‘Dhamaal 2’.A few days back it was reported that Vidya was the first choice for the role, but the actress asked for a hefty amount which director Indra Kumar could not afford.

Later, Mallika was approached for the same, and the sultry beauty agreed to do the film at a much-affordable price.

Actor Amitabh Bachchan had done it and so had some other icons. We are talking about shooting public service ads to eradicate Polio in India.And now actress Mallika Sherawat seems to be doing a follow up of that.The dissimilarity is that she is taking the message to another country altogether.

The actress who has been living in Los Angeles for over a year, now carving a Hollywood career for herself was recently approached to shoot for such an ad and she agreed. The actress posed photographs for some print ads which will be used across all media platforms.

Mallika will be seen in a white evening gown – totally clothed – for the ad!

Mallika Sherawat is courting trouble again. The actress, who is always surrounded by controversies, has received yet another blow as the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) has taken strict action against her. Mallika, who had received Rs 25 lakh for Kundan Shah’s ‘Masquerade’, refused to return the money after walking out of the movie, thus forcing the filmmakers to take serious action against her.

And now Studio 18 that had filed a case against Mallika Sherawat in IMPAA has won the case, with the association sending a notice to Mallika Sherawat to return 50 percent of the signing amount. Confirming the news Shariq Patel, Sr Vice President of Studio 18 said, “We had gone to IMPPA with a case against her to return our signing amount and the connection has ruled in our favour. They sent a letter to Mallika on May 26 and have instructed her to return 50 per cent of our signing amount for Kundan Shah’s movie Masquerade. It’s a victory for us.”

When asked for his reaction, ace director Kundan Shah said, “It’s none of my business. Studio 18 decided to shelve the project with or without Mallika. Mallika backed out from the movie and they took a decision not to make film at all.”

April 19, 2010:Shreya Narayan, who plays the leading lady opposite Sukhwinder Singh in Kuchh Kariye tells Jyothi Venkatesh that Ash isn’t her inspiration but actresses who.

The first class magistrate of Pandharkawda court in Yavatmal district yesterday issued a bailable warrant of Rs15,000 against noted actress Mallika Sherawat in bond with her obscene dance performances and directed her to appear before it on April 16. According to the petitioner Rajanikant Borele, he has filed a illegal complaint against Sherawat for her obscene acts. CDs and video photos, which contain her obscene performances, were admitted by the court. The court had issued order against her in April last year and directed the Versova (Mumbai) police station officer to serve the order on her.

Her lawyer moved an application to grant time for her appearance.The court has, on two previous occasions, allowed her plea and directed her to appear in person today, the last date of hearing of the case. However, the actress did not pay any attention to the court’s summons and unsuccessful to appear in person today. The complainant has brought this to the notice of the court and pleaded for issuing a warrant against her. Consequently, the JMFC of Pandharkawda Sunil Boralkar has passed the order of bailable warrant of Rs 15,000 against Sherawat.

The complainant Rajanikant, who has obtained the warrant from the court, is now set to go to Varsova police station with the warrant to be served on the actress. Advocate KG Mutyalwar has appeared for the complainant in the case. It may be recalled that earlier in November last year, Sherawat was scheduled to visit Nagpur to attend a public entertainment programme. But she late the visit at the last minute in expectation of being served with the court summons through Nagpur police during her stay in the city.

Obama seems to be getting on to the Bollywood women. Why else would films be made in Bollywood with him in the title? While Kajol and SRK have made some references to Obama in the film My Name is Khan, Mallika Sherawat is working in a film called Love Barrack where she has also posed with his cut out.

Add to that the fact that former Miss India and actress Neha Dhupia is also working in a film called With Love to Obama. “I am shooting for the film at Bhor with Rajat kapoor. He is one of the finest people in Indian Cinema. The team is good and we have a positive feel about the film,” she says. Neha was in the US on a TV show as well and we do hope that the US President also returns the love to our pretty women!

Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat has bagged a role in Doug McHenry’s Love, Barack, a political romantic comedy, which is inspired from 2008 US presidential election. She will be staring opposite Avatar star Laz Alonso. She will play Obama’s coordinator Aretha Gupta.

The story is all about 2008 US election, where Democrat Aretha (Mallika Sherawat) falls for her Republican counterpart (Alonso), a handsome, dynamic African-American working for the local McCain office. Mallika Sherawat is all excited about this project and says “Laz Alonso is a talented and exciting actor. I’m very lucky to be working with him.”

Gary Goldstein has penned the script and Francis Kenny will be the director of photography. Veteran actress Ruby Dee, Gerry Bednob and Loretta Devine are also doing the lead role in the movie.