The things that an actress has to do to promote a movie - attending parties, film festival visits, sweating out at stage shows, blowing kisses at the crowds at promotional events, posing for pics with fans, kissing kids, kissing snakes...ehm...kissing what? That's the first thought that came to our mind when we got to see the pics of Mallika Sherawat posing with a giant python at Cannes. Just when we thought it was going to end with the well-fed reptile wrapped around her neck, Mallika planted a kiss on the python. Boohoo...Emraan Hashmi!

No, this is no rubber snake. This happens to be the real thing and the whole snake-charming act was part of a photocall to promote her upcoming international project - Hisss. The movie aims to revive the "Nagin" genre of Bollywood movies on a larger scale and is being promoted as an international project.

We wonder what the python would have said had it been blessed with the gift of speech.