Mallika Sherawat claims bikini pictures are stills from her movie but sources say the publicity hungry bombshell has lied. Mallika Sherawat has successfully pulled off yet another publicity hoax.

Recently, some snapshots were circulated in the media featuring the Bollywood queen of gimmicks in a two-piece bikini and sarong. It has reportedly been claimed they were scenes from Mallika's upcoming flick Double Dhamaal, scheduled to open on June 24, 2010.

Mallika, according to reports, had an elaborate poolside scene in the film. However, it now turned out that the film does not have any such sequence in it. There are perhaps a few fleeting seconds of Mallika in a bikini. But as always, the Bollywood-siren has managed to extract maximum mileage from the gimmick.

The film's PR unit has been quick to insist that a full-fledged poolside scene was originally there in the film and that it had been chopped off at the last moment because Double Dhamaal was meant to be a "good clean family comedy", but industry insiders claim otherwise. Some sources, to defend Mallika's claim, have been quick to spread the buzz that Mallika is angry that her bikini sequence had been chopped from the film.