Close on the heels of two flops in a row, Mallika Sherawat, we hear, has hit the panic button.

“She was banking heavily on those two films, but to her dismay, they bombed and she’s back to square one looking for an elusive hit to salvage her career. Problem is that audiences are used to seeing her in a particular image and she is trying to do away with it,” says a filmmaker. How about showing some of her original sex appeal on the screen?