on a drizzly weekday afternoon mallika sherawat decided to take a walk down memory lane along the beach in versova andheri earlier this year mumbai received exceptionally heavy rains and experienced hightides which threw back as much as 215000 kilos of filth back on to the seafronts in the city the citys municipal officials had a tough time cleaning the mess even with all of this i think the beaches in mumbai have evolved in a very positive manner and are cleaner than they used to be yes we need to be more cautious with what we do with our sea faces because they lend a distinct personality to this maximum city we need to protect them says mallika who moved to mumbai almost two decades ago from haryana she continues i see a positive evolvement in versova thanks to afroz shah the beaches are cleaner than ever before versova today reminds me of a little goan village with its green cover little parks and beautiful bylanes to walk years ago i was supposed to do a photoshoot with bt around the time murder released it was at this very beach and we couldnt shoot because it was so unclean we did a shoot at another location today look at the beaches in mumbai theyre cleaner and there are bmc officials all the time to keep a vigil which is great when asked about the recent cleanup activity that the bmc was forced to carry out thanks to the filth that the sea threw right back on to the citys sea faces mallika asserts that mumbaikars need to use the sea to their advantage instead of making it muckheavyseas take the pollution away if were cautious with our sea fronts they too will help mumbai in a positive manner and monsoon in mumbai really helps to bring down the smoke and pollution levels the only thing we need to stop is polluting our water bodies she saysit has been almost 20 years since mallika made mumbai her home today she lives a stones throw away from the versova beach but those days the story was a tad different she lived in what she calls a hole in the wall near juhu i wanted to live near a beach when i moved here i rented a small onebedroom house which was two minutes away from juhu beach the windows of my house overlooked the sea yes the electronic items in the house were completely smashed because of the air but i had no idea this could happen and i was supposed to be careful but i just think living near a beach is very healthy and one of the best ways to destress says mallika adding basically there are negative ions in the air which are oxygen rich living near a sea reduces the level negativity its the same effect that himalayan salt lamps have they ward off negativity they are therapeutic theres a reason doctors advise you to go