Imagine Mallika playing CIA sleuth!

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat is set to steam up the big screen playing an ex-CIA agent in a movie with veteran actor Kamal Hassan.

Ravi Kumar, director of the movie Dasavatharam said Sherawat agreed to do the movie even before she saw the script since she was very keen to work with Hassan. ''She plays a bold, modern girl,'' Kumar said.

''If there is Mallika, there have to be hot scenes,'' he said when asked by Mumbai-based newspaper about the scenes between Hassan and Sherawat.

Sherawat played an Indian princess in her latest movie The Myth with Hong Kong movie hero Jackie Chan.