ok the only reason i posted was bcs i was told by some other CHer that she was a bar dancer.

here is ur site - which says she did go to Mithi bhai college, perhaps dropped out bcs of her glamor addiction. not bcs she had to "support" family and all that melodramatic crap.

"Rakhi Sawant was born to a Marathi Hindu family in Mumbai. Her father is an ACP with the Mumbai Police. She has a brother, Rakesh and a sister, Jaya. Rakhi studied in Goklibai School, Vile Parle and later studied Arts at Mithibai College.

Rakhi Sawant was still in school when director Suneel Darshan offered her an Item Number opposite Govinda in Joru ka Gulam. Three years later, she auditioned four times before winning her breakthrough Item number Mohabbat hai Mirchi in Chura Liya Hai Tumne in 2003. During this period she fell out with her father who despised the film industry. ACP Sawant, a conservative man, felt that acting was not a respectable profession. Her mother, Usha Sawant, had no such qualms however, having herself received offers to act in Gujarati cinema. After her Rakhi Sawant's role, she gave up acting at her husband's insistence, but harbored hopes that her children would make it big in the industry.

http://www.the-planets.com/star-biography/Rakhi-Sawant-Biography.htm
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