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Born on August 23, 1973,
Malaika Arora Khan has risen to where she is today, all by herself. As
a fresh new face of MTV in India, Malaika became the most sought after
VJ in MTV. From an interviewer with MTV she went on to become the famous
face of the new urban India, who didn’t belong to movies or modeling. She
was born to a Punjabi father and a Malayalee mother Joyce Polycarp. Her
schooling for the tenth grade was done from Swami Vivekanand School ( Collector'
Colony)in Chembur(Mumbai) under the guidance and tutelage of her Aunt Grace
Polycarp, who was the acting principal of that school. An alumnus of Holy
Cross Convent High School, Thane where she had studied until ninth grade,
Malaika lived in Borla Society opposite Basant
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Talkies before she began
her modeling career
MTV India had seen her
talent and gave her important roles of at Award Functions and events which
were televised all over the country, bringing her instant recognition.
She also had a brush with modeling world and became a regular face of reputed
fashion shows or advertisements. She was every advertiser’s dream girl
and her popularity soared from strength to strength. There was a time when
she was linked to John Abraham, but all that is past. Her item numbers
and song and dance sequences like Chaiyya Chaiyya in the film Dil Se and
Maahi Ve in Kaante were a big rage.
But she has chosen to focus
good part of her time and effort on TV anchoring and modeling, doing what
she knows the best. Occasionally she comes up with surprises, like another
item number: Kaal Dhamaal in the movie Kaal. She eventually got married
to Arbaaz Khan whom she met while shooting for a coffee ad. Her sister
Amrita Arora has also done her stint as a VJ with MTV and now she is trying
to leave a mark in Bollywood. Her brother-in-laws Salman and Sohail are
successful Bollywood personalities. And her husband is never shy of praising
her better half as he says, “She balances work, home and kid skillfully.
And Amrita commented about Malika’s body, on much watched TV celebrity
talk show ‘Koffee With Karan’, saying that there is hardly anyone she has
known or seen – who have been able to maintain their body even after motherhood.
(Kofee with Karan, 2005).
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