Malaika started off infamously, or shall we say, with a bang. Her steamy ad for MR coffee, back in the early nineties, earned her instant stardom. Not to forget, a husband-thing heated up off the set too, for her male model on the ad was none other than Arbaaz Khan.

Then a national pheromone-overdrive happened when MTV roped her into do ‘Love Line’, a kind of love -guru late night show that kids turned in not exactly to get matters of the heart solved, but just to pamper-gaze over her naver-ending legs.

Ah, her legs. Long, lithe and always around to peek at you, they deserve a thesis to be done on them, complete with Power Point presentations and a cellulite metre at hand. Ask Vandana Luthra- she hooked in the bombshell to promote her anti-cellulite range of lotions some time back. No prizes for guessing whom the perfect tutor for this PhD course could be!

The national frenzy over her special appearance with SRK in ‘Dil Se’ salted the debate over this non-actor; Bollywood’s ultimate item goddess. Even while she returned again to be the item queen, she stood out as an example of a woman who seemed to balance it all perfectly-tinsel town.