About Me

 Malai- translates in Hindi to ‘cream’- was born and raised in a small town in India. She’s the brainchild of Badal- an architect who currently resides in the vibrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens. Malai is known for her unique brand of drag brunches that incapsulate ingenious lip-sync performances, stand-up acts and family-friendly story hour education young kids about Indian culture. She’s the resident queen at Sona- an Indian restaurant owned by Priyanka Chopra where she introduces a twist of Bollywood ‘naach-gaana’ (dancing and singing) to an Indian style brunch. Malai routinely hosts Bollywood dance nights with a south-Asian queer organization called Yuva and she performs her acclaimed Bollywood drag cabaret at the Laurie Beechman theater with UK drag legend Lady Bushra.