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Malaika Arora Khan मलाइका अरोड़ा ख़ान
Born	Malaika Arora 23 August 1973 (1973-08-23) (age 36) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress, Model, VJ, Television presenter
Years active	1997 - present
Spouse(s)	Arbaaz Khan (1998-present)

Malaika Arora Khan (Hindi: मलाइका अरोड़ा ख़ान, Punjabi: ਮਲਾਇਕਾ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਖ਼ਾਨ, Malayalam: മലൈക അറോറ ഖാന്‍; born on 23 August 1973), also known as Malaika Arora, is an Indian model, actress, television personality and former MTV VJ.

Early life and background

Arora was was born in Mumbai to a Punjabi Sikh father, Anil Arora, and a Malayali Catholic mother, Joyce Polycarp. Her father worked in the Merchant Navy.

She completed her secondary education at 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 starting her modeling career.

Career

Arora was selected as one of the MTV VJs when MTV India started its operations in India. She rose to an interviewer for MTV India, becoming the most prominent 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.

Arora then entered the modeling world. Her modeling career was equally successful. She appeared in many advertisements as well as cameos for song and item numbers in Bollywood films such as Chaiyya Chaiyya in the film Dil Se.

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

Arora is married to 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.

References

External links

Malaika Arora at the Internet Movie Database