The sensational Item number girl belongs to a middle class family in Mumbai; her father is a cop in Mumbai Police. While Rakhi was still in High School, she was approached for a role in ‘Agni Chakra’ and it was with this movie that she made her debut in Bollywood. Rakhi was encouraged by her mother who couldn’t fulfill her dream of becoming an actress and wanted her daughter to liveup to her dream. Rakhi acted in a couple of movies and began her career as item girl in Govinda’s ‘Joru Ka Ghulam’. Rakhi underwent a complete makeover and was relaunched in ‘Chura Liya Hai Tumne’. Although, the actress had a small role in the movie, she got the opportunity to do an item number with Zayed Khan.

Since the beginning of her career, Rakhi Sawant has always maintained a very bold image and flaunts her hourglass figure in skimpy clothes, which was never accepted by her dad who finally asked the actress to leave his house. That didn’t stop Rakhi as she continued doing item numbers.

The actress has done cameos in ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Masti’. Rakhi has also featured in many music videos and her latest one “Budda mil gaya” was a superhit. Rakhi is famous for her stage shows all across India and it was during one of her shows in the city of Kolhapur that she was charged for vulgarity. Rakhi made headlines when she filed a molestation case against Punjabi Pop Singer Mika who she claimed tried to forcibly kiss the actress.

Rakhi is launching the career of her director brother Rakesh who makes his debut with ‘Hot Money’. Rakhi is regarded as one of the best dancers in the industry and it is her talent and determination that has helped her gain ‘the perfect item number’ image.