Mallika Sherawat’s transparent bikini angers brother

Mallika Sherawat can comfortably slip into most outrageous and revealing dresses as was quite evident at the premiere of 'Inglourious Basterds' in Hollywood last year. But the bikini she donned for the shoot of a sequence in director Jennifer Lynch's movie Hissss left so little to imagination that her brother barged onto the movie's sets in Madh Island and stopped the shoot midway. If reports are to be believed, Mallika was wearing a semi-transparent skin-coloured bikini that gave the impression of total nudity. Also present at the shoot was a nude body-double for Mallika. Apparently, what Jennifer wanted was to shoot Mallika's face and take shots of the nude body double and then merge them together on the editing table. However, Mallika's brother Vikram Lamba, who is also one of the producers of the film, didn't approve of his sister wearing such a revealing bikini and reportedly stopped the shoot, demanding that Mallika be given a better dress. A heated argument followed between Vikram and Govind Menon, another co-producer. Surprisingly, Mallika sided with Menon and said she had no problem wearing the translucent bikini. But it was Vikram who eventually had his way and Mallika was given a skin-coloured bodysuit. Mallika plays a snakewoman in the film.

Anushka Sharma wears bum bags

What's that? Well, as per recent reports model-turned-actress Anushka Sharma has to wear bum bags to fit the character she plays in the movie Patiala House. Actually, in the movie she is portraying a Punjabi girl, like in her debut Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and when she dressed in Patiala-suits and short kurtis, she looked pencil-thin. Anushka is naturally slim and tall and her size-zero figure is just well-suited for her Yashraj's next, which is an untitled project opposite Shahid Kapoor, where the actress needs to look fit. But for 'Patiala House' opposite Akshay Kumar that slender frame of hers doesn't go well with the fleshy character. So her designer got a better idea to solve the problem. As a source tells a daily, "When she wore the ethnic dresses, she was looking way too skinny. Punjabi girls are heavier on the lower body, especially the hips. Since Anushka nowhere resembled a Punjabi girl in that aspect, designer Jaimal Odedra decided to attach bum pads inside her salwars to make her derriere look heavier." However, designer Jaimal refuses to comment on this matter. It may sound funny but there was a report a few weeks back that Shahid Kapoor too has gone for padded bums to accentuate his hips.