Mallika was shooting for an item song ‘Shalu’ for ‘Bin Bulaye Baraati’ where she refused to shoot with other actors like Gulshan Grover, Om Puri and others like Rajpal Yadav, Mukesh Tiwari and Johnny Lever who were also part of the song.

One of the actors told Mid-Day, “It was shocking. We had gone for the shoot thinking we’d be filming together.

The choreographer Ganesh Acharya shook hands with us but when we went to get our make-up done, he had vamoosed. The film’s director, Chandrakant Singh took over and directed the song.”

While Ganesh confirms that he shot separately with Mallika but denies that she demanded it. “There was no such problem. Mallika was supposed to shoot alone with the rest of the actors joining her at the end of the song.”

Even Gulshan Grover shot the song separately but showed ignorance over the issue.

Nowadays, top most actresses of Bollywood are doing item-numbers in the films with great success, Katrina Kaif (Sheila ki Jawani), Deepika Padukone (Dum Maaro Dum) and even Kareena Kapoor has done the job earlier.

Seeing all the success behind the item number Bips is a little restless and want to make audience groove before she is left far behind.

“My song is going to be bigger than Munni and Sheila,” says Sophie Choudry. She has recently shot for an item number, which has been choreographed by dance guru Prabhudeva.

“Prabhu’s such an amazing dancer and teacher. So when the opportunity came to my door, I grabbed it, she told a daily.

I was in the South for a week and am sure I lost at least half a kilo daily!” she added.

“And he messaged back saying ‘Babes, just enjoy the moment’. And let me tell you, I did just that.”