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For popular media in India, covering Cannes used to be a high-brow affair. Sherawat turned it into a sensational news cycle. Was she representing India well? The debates raged. But the byproduct was that Indian entertainment journalism learned to look outward. Agencies like Getty Images and Reuters began filing "Mallika Sherawat" tags as standard keywords. Sherawat was one of the first contemporary Bollywood