Mumbai: Actor Mallika Sherawat, who shot to fame with Murder in 2004, has said that her characters in films are different from what she’s like in real life.
“I lost 20-30 movies because I didn’t give in to things that I didn’t believe in. What I do as a character on screen is different from who I am in real life. I had to make the demarcation very clear from the beginning, and that cost me those movies. But I am happy that I could still get work on my terms and get a string of great opportunities. Today, I feel that the industry is far more organised and women are headlining good films, which is a promising sign,” she told the Times of India in an interview.
This followed her recent war of words with a Twitter user who blamed her films for violence against women after she posted her comments on the Hathras rape case.
“Unless india reforms it’s medieval mindset towards women nothing will change #HathrasHorror #NirbhayaCase,” she wrote.
The Twitter troll suggested that the kinds of roles that she played on-screen had contributed to violence against women. To which Mallika replied, “So the movies I act in are an invitation for rape!!! It’s mentality like yours that make Indian society regressive for women! If you hv a problem wt my movies then Don’t see them #nocountryforwomen.”
On the work front, Mallika was last seen in the web series, Boo Sabki Phategi, which released last year.
