Mallika is a 1957 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Joseph Thaliath Jr.

Due to losses, the businessman is forced to return to India with his wife and daughters.

Kamala joins a dance troupe for a living and to save for treatment of her sister.

Kamala meets Mohan, a man from an affluent family, and falls in love with him.

[5] Despite this, the film was an average success, but was remade in Hindi as Payal the same year with Padmini returning.