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Mallika Sherawat's Myth is 'Busted'!
24th Sept 2005 09.43 IST
By Agencies

That Mallika Sherawat has a big mouth is known to all. And just before the release of her film The Myth she went harping about her new Hollywood status. But that ‘myth’ has been ‘busted’ now.

Reports are that Mallika’s much-vaunted "stellar" role in Stanley Tong's ‘The Myth’ is just that—a myth. According to audiences at the Toronto Film Festival where the film was premiered her role is no more than a glorified cameo.

"What was all the fuss about? And why do we go on about our prospects out West when Hollywood has no patience for us?" says an Indian actor present at the festival.

"Mallika repeatedly made goof-ups in the press conferences. Apparently at a press conference Jackie Chan was asked why he chose to have Mallika in his film. He turned around and said she had great pair."

According to members of the Indian film fraternity at the Festival Mallika's presence was a complete non-event.

"Sure, she got noticed for the very obvious assets. But her twin peaks have become boringly in-your-face. At the Festival she looked out of place with her breasts hanging out as though they had nothing better to do," jokes a sporting fellow-actor.

"Seriously her female colleague Kim Hee Seon conducted herself with so much dignity. Mallika was spilling out all over the place making absurd statements about how in India doing a Jackie Chan film was like doing a James Bond film. What did she mean? Was she belittling James Bond or Jackie Chan? And then, after all the gushing, her role in ‘The Myth’ was nothing more than a glorified cameo."

While responses to Mallika at Toronto ranged from lukewarm to indifferent, audiences and critics were far more categorical in their dismissal of the film. The Myth has been declared a certifiable dud. The plot has Chan in a double role as a Ming warrior in ancient times and an archeologist in present times. Neither of the story works.

Says a prominent Indian director (who was at the Festival), "After the screening of any film at the Festival the papers next day are filled with news and views. There was hardly anything at all about ‘The Myth’. There was a cold indifferent silence to the film and to Mallika Sherawat. One feels sorry for the girl because she had pumped up her presence in it as some kind of a grand event. This is more like a damp squib."

What a sad impasse in the career of a spunky and sensuous actress who virtually re-wrote the rules of female stardom in Murder .

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