Mallika Sherawat’s latest release ‘Shaadi Se Pehle’ might not be getting good response at the box office but it hasn’t been able to affect the actress name and fame. The sex siren is soon going to play the Goldie Hawn’s role from Private Benjamin in a plum Hollywood remake project produced by Ravi Walia.

Being a comedy, the film is aptly titled ‘Fauj Mein Mauj’ and will be directed by debutant Murli Nagavalli, who so far has been assistant to Priyadarshan. Mallika will again play the role of a sex bomb in this film too.

The director confirmed, “Yes, I’m directing Mallika in Fauj Mein Mauj.” Talking about his inspiration from Hollywood flick he said, “It has been changed to suit the Indian audiences. The film is a comedy along the lines of the Police Academy series, but set in the army it’s a story of what happens when a sexy young woman joins the army.” On a note of caution he added, “I’m not making fun of anyone, but just making a humorous film. It’s a fictional story.”

On his choice of Mallika he said, “We needed a woman with a sex-symbol image, who had some spunk and spice about her. And Mallika is the right person to play this role.” The other star cast in the film is Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav. Search is still going on for other actors, including male lead opposite Mallika and her superior, the Colonel. Murli hopes to start shooting for the film in the first week of June.

The original 1980 comedy came with a catchy tagline: ‘The army was no laughing matter until Judy Benjamin joined it.’ The film was about a sheltered high society young woman who, on a whim, decides to join the army when her husband dies on their wedding night. She finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected when her superior makes sexual advances towards her. For thwarting his advances, she’s transferred to the NATO headquarters in Europe where she once again meets Frenchman Henri and the story moves further towards the climax.

Mallika is currently away in Turkey, where she’s doing a song sequence for Mani Ratnam’s Guru, starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in the lead.