While a fat pay cheque of 40 lac will leave most of us dancing on our toes but it won't budge some one like Mallika Sherawat, who was getting the hefty amount to perform a dance number in Aamir Khan's epic 'The Rising'.

"Good actors don't thrive on item numbers", she opines and adds, "I won't play second fiddle to anyone in my upcoming films. I guess, meatier roles not the blink-and-you-miss songs are needed to stay ahead of the pack."

The producer Boby Bedi, who approached the kiss-miss to perform in a forest for Mangal Pandey (played by Aamir) and his gang, was amazed to see the response from the Jat girl.

Though she claims the paucity of dates to be the reason for her declination but the idustrywallahs claim, the success of her recent film 'Murder' has gone into her head and hence the pretty lady isn't ready to associate herself with anything which is not at par with her earlier project.

Her recent exposé may have left Mallika extremely media shy but the pretty lady still knows how to tackle the powerful medium. After all she is Mallika Sherawat, who dared to expoilt the industry, which is often accused of exploitation.