Mumbai, May 26: Three years after her superhit item number ‘Honth Rasile’ in ‘Welcome’, Malaika Arora is putting her dancing shoes again for husband Arbaaz Khan’s debut production ‘Dabangg’.
Malaika had created a stir with her ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’ number opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Maniratnam’s ‘Dil Se’ in 1998 when Bollywood was just waking up to the concept of item girls.
She will now jive on the tantalising title ‘Munni Badnaam’ in the film, which is set against the backdrop of politics and crime in UP and Bihar, starring Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha, daughter of actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha.
“Yes, Malaika has appeared in this fun dance number which is going to be a highlight of ‘Dabangg’. Salman too would be making an appearance in the song though it is not clear whether he would be dancing along with Malaika or not,” a source said.
Incidentally, this is for the first time that Malaika would be appearing in an item song for a home production even as Arbaaz, Sohail and Salman have been making films for quite a few years now.
–Agencies