Mumaith Khan is an Indian film actress known for her item numbers. She has acted in movies in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil andKannada languages.


Mumaith Khan is born on 1st September in Mumbai. Her real name is Mumait Abdul Rashid Khan and nick name is Munnu/ Munni. Pierced and tattooed, Mumaith Khan has made a place for herself in showbiz.

Abdul Rashid Khan who is from Tamil Nadu, India and a Pakistani national Hasina Khan. She has four sisters and to support her family, she joined a small dance troop for Rupees 1500/- per month. One of her sister Zabyn Khan also entered the film industry and has done some cameo appearances in Telugu films.

She got into the limelight after her debut in the Hindi movie Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as a item number in 2003. After that, she became very busy in Hindi Film Industry as well as Telugu Film Industry and lately Tamil Film Industry.


Her debut film Swamy in Telugu released in 2004. She gained more popularity with the item song in the Telugu film Pokiri.

Mumaith Khan with
item girl Rakhi Sawant
Her first film in Tamil is Thalai Nagaram (2006). In the Tamil film Pokkiri which was a remake of Telugu film of thesame name, she also danced in an item song.

She then started getting roles in movies like Lucky: No time for Love (2005), Chocolate (2005) and Fight Club: Members Only (2006).

Mumaith Khan has worked in Tamil and Telugu movies as well, like Yogi (2007), Lakshmi Puthrudu (2008), Villu (2009) and Kanthaswamy (2009).

She played a police officer's role named Myssama. She has acted as a heroine in the film Bhookailas with Venu Madhav.

When she was performing on the New years Eve of 2008 in a local Hyderabad Pub, Some revelers spilled beer on her chest, prompting her to quickly cancel the program. All said and done, she has managed to reach where a lot of people have dreamed to be. She originally claimed to have a boy friend in UK.


She has a very gutsy kind of style and dress sense, suitably provocative for her roles and image. Highlighted by her piercings and tattoos, she's probably one of the first, after Ria Sen to show a pierced navel in the Indian Movie industry.

In her interview with MTV she says she has 5 piercings, 2 on the eye brows, 2 on her navel, and one on her lip. When actually the visible piercings are: one on her navel, one on her tongue, one eye brow. Leaving one to scintillate where the other 2 are.

Her tattoo on her hip in front is large enough to go down her bikini pants and show up on both sides. She also has 2 more tattoos one on her lower back and one on the back of her shoulder.

It said that her remuneration for cameo in Tollywood is Rs 1.5 crores INR now a days. Her Remuneration for Mysamma IPS is 3.5 Crore.