Mallika Sherawat: I have lost films because I wasn't dating the hero!

Mallika Sherawat shot to fame with the film Murder about 15 years ago. However, the actress did not feature in many films post her breakthrough in Anurag Basu’s thriller drama. She opened up about the same and said that she was thrown out of many movies for not being the concerned actor, director or producer's girlfriend.

"I lost film projects because they thought I was opinionated. I would hear from heroes 'don't cast her she speaks a lot and has a lot of opinions'. They would prefer their girlfriends instead of me in projects. I can list at least 20-30 movies that I've lost. But it didn't make me bitter. It was my gradual evolution. Now when I look back, they look like fools, all of them," Mallika told PTI.

The 42-year-old actress revealed how that no one took her seriously when she started to speak about social issues, She said, "When I spoke about women's issues, there were people in Bollywood and the media who thought I wasn't a patriot and weren't ready to listen. I know actresses who attacked me. But I love my country and hence this regressive mindset we have against women needs to change,"  

On the work front, Mallika recently made her digital debut alongside Tusshar Kapoor in a horror-comedy web series produced by Ekta Kapoor.

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