Malaika Arora Khan

Malaika Arora Khan is an Indian model, VJ and a Bollywood actress.

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.

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 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.

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