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Malaika Arora

Malaika Arora Khan Tamil: மலாய்க்கா அரோரா கான்,(Punjabi: ਮਲਾਇਕਾ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਖ਼ਾਨ, Hindi: मलाइका अरोड़ा ख़ान, Malayalam: മലൈക അറോറ ഖാന്‍ ) born Malika Arora on 23 August 1973 is an Indian model, VJ and a Bollywood actress.

Early life and background

Malaika was born in Mumbai to a Malayali mother, Joyce Polycarp and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora. Her father worked in the Merchant Navy. Her younger sister, Amrita Arora is a Bollywood actress.

She completed her tenth grade from Swami Vivekanand School in Chembur (Mumbai). Her Aunt Grace Polycarp was the principal of the school. She is also an alumnus of the Holy Cross High School Thane where she had studied until ninth grade. She lived in Borla Society, opposite Basant Talkies before her modeling career.

Career

Malaika was selected as one of the VJs, when MTV India started its operations in India. She rose to an interviewer for MTV India, becoming the most prominent and non-movie, non-model female in urban India.

MTV India, recognizing her potential gave her plum roles co-anchoring with Cyrus Broacha the popular program Love Line and Style Check, at Award ceremonies and concerts on the television channel. She then entered the modeling world. Her modeling career was equally successful.

Malaika has appeared in many advertisements as well as cameos for song and dance sequences, such as Chaiyya Chaiyya in the film Dil Se and Maahi Ve in Kaante, she earned the moniker, sex bomb. She has since then focused on her career as a model.

In 2005, she did another item number, Kaal Dhamaal in the movie Kaal. Recently she also did an item in Mahesh Babu’s Telugu film. In 2007, she did a title song in Heyy Babyy directed by Sajid Khan and another popular song for Om Shanti Om whose director is the sister of Sajid, Farah Khan.

In 2009 she is a ‘rishto ke parkhi’ in Star Plus reality show called ‘Lux Perfect Bride’ along with Shekhar Suman and Amrita Rao.

Personal life

She is married to the Bollywood actor Arbaaz Khan whom she met during a coffee ad shoot. Together they have a son, Arhaan. Her sister is actress Amrita Arora, and her brothers-in-law are bollywood superstar Salman Khan and actor-director-producer Sohail Khan . Her father-in-law is the famous scriptwriter Mr Salim Khan.

Filmography

Nach Baliye

Malaika also appeared in the television show Nach Baliye as one of the 3 judges and the show aired on STAR One in mid-2005, and she continued as a judge in Nach Baliye 2 that started airing in the last quarter of 2006. In that as well, she had performed many item numbers as an example for all contestants. She highly criticized Bakhtiyaar Irani for being arrogant in the show Nach Baliye. She strongly mentioned that Bakthiyaar Irani should do a crash course on Humility to improve his behaviour.

Zara Nachke Dikha

Malaika has also judged in the show zara nachke dikha as a judge along with the Indian actor Chunky Pandey on Star One Channel.

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