Eight minutes of Mallika`s 'Myth'!

Why do Indian stars open their mouth about an international career so prematurely and then end up with egg on their face?

Mallika Sherawat's much-vaunted "stellar" role in Stanley Tong's The Myth is just that - a myth. Audiences who saw the film were shocked to see her role was no more than a cameo.

"What was all the fuss about? And why do we go on about our prospects out West when Hollywood has no patience for us?" said filmmaker Hansal Mehta. "Mallika repeatedly made goof-ups at press conferences."

According to members of the Indian film fraternity at the Toronto Film Festival, Mallika's presence there was a complete non-event.

A fellow actor said: "Seriously her female colleague Kim Hee Seon conducted herself with so much dignity.

Mallika was making absurd statements about how in India doing a Jackie Chan film was like doing a James Bond film.

"What did she mean? And then after all the gushing, her role in The Myth was nothing more than a cameo," he said.

Critics have rated The Myth as arguably the worst film of Jackie Chan's career.

Where does Mallika go from here?

Back to the Bollywood grind? She has a brief role in one segment of Ram Gopal Varma's Darna Zaroori Hai with Anil Kapoor and a part in Satish Kaushik's Shaadi Se Pehle with Suniel Shetty.

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