Malaika Arora Khan (Punjabi: ਮਲਾਇਕਾ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਖ਼ਾਨ, Hindi: मलाइका अरोड़ा ख़ान, Malayalam: മലൈക അറോറ ഖാന് ) (born 23 August 1973) 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.
She completed her tenth grade from Swami Vivekanand School in Chembur (Mumbai). H...
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Malaika Arora Khan (Punjabi: ਮਲਾਇਕਾ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਖ਼ਾਨ, Hindi: मलाइका अरोड़ा ख़ान, Malayalam: മലൈക അറോറ ഖാന് ) (born 23 August 1973) 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.
She completed her tenth grade from 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 her modeling career.
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...
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