A French court has ordered that Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat be evicted from an apartment in a posh part of Paris for failing to keep up with the €6,000-a-month rent. The sex-symbol and actress was tear gassed and beaten up in Paris in 2016.
As France contends with a drop in tourist numbers following a series of deadly attacks, the government is hoping that a new Bollywood romantic comedy can help it lure Indian visitors.
Unknown in France, but a superstar on the streets of India, Kalki Koechlin says of herself: “My skin is white, but my heart is brown.” Known for playing the complex foreign woman in Bollywood movies, she is our French Face of the Week.
