Mumaith Khan

Mumaith Khan (born 1 September 1985) is an Indian film actress working in Indian film industry and also works on cameos in form of item number.

Khan has acted primarily in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada language films. Besides movies, she has contested in the reality shows like Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 6 and first season of Bigg Boss Telugu. As of 2017 she had worked in 40 Telugu movies, over 20 Hindi movies, 16 Tamil and 5 Kannada films. Her call to fame was her cameo performance in th Sanjay Dutt starrer hit Munna Bhai MBBS. Her career was rocked by a controversy of drug allegations in which many south movie stars were also questioned. Her relationship with a prime suspect Calvin Mascerehas was also at the centre of investigation.Because of those allegations, in July 2018, Mumaith was evicted mid way from Big Boss Telugu season 2 for questioning by the special investigation team in relation to a drug racket along with 20 other prominent celebrities from South film industry. During the investigation she volunteered to giver her hair, fluid and nail samples which the SIT refused.Later she returned to the reality show after the interrogation.

In December 2016, Mumaith fell down from the bed at her apartment and hit her head which led to an internal injury damaging her nerves in the brain. She was in coma for 15 days and the doctors said it would take her two years to recover after treatment and surgery. Subsequently this led to few neurological health problems like seizures and has been on medication for last two years. This also led to her gaining weight as her doctor advised her to keep away from the gym. Since then she has been trying to get back in shape gruadually and is optimistic of making a comeback.

Khan made her comeback with Telugu horror film Heza.