Sonam Malik is a Haryanvi and Bhojpuri screen actress who entered Rise and Fall Season 2 as a wild card in episode 17, in October 2026. She is not the wrestler who carries the same name, and she was not one of the six finalists.
Her screen work is short enough to date exactly: one Bhojpuri song with Pawan Singh, one Haryanvi series and a Hindi film reported but not released. Her four weeks in the house left two clips behind, a whispered confidence about a son she says she cannot see and an accidental kiss at family week.
Sonam Malik: Quick Facts
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sonam Malik |
| Known for | Rise and Fall Season 2, wild card in episode 17; the Bhojpuri song Aara Ke Othlali |
| From | Haryana |
| Bhojpuri debut | Aara Ke Othlali with Pawan Singh, released January 2025 |
| Haryanvi work | Daak Khana, a Chaupal Originals project, with Ndee Kundu |
| Hindi film | Mahak, reported as in preparation |
| Son | A seven-year-old living in Haryana, per her account on the show |
| Marriage | A divorce case under way, per her account on the show |
| Date of birth | Not published |
Which Sonam Malik: the actress or the wrestler?
Two public figures share the name. Sonam Malik the wrestler was born on 15 April 2002 in Sonipat, competes at 62 kg in freestyle wrestling and took bronze at the 2022 Asian Games. Sonam Malik the actress is a different woman from Haryana, with no wrestling record and a career in music videos.
The wrestler is the better documented of the two. Her Wikipedia entry, her United World Wrestling profile and Olympedia record a place at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and the bronze at Hangzhou in 2022. None of those three pages carries an acting credit or mentions Rise and Fall.
The actress has no Wikipedia entry of her own. Her IMDb page lists Daak Khana and Rise and Fall, and the reporting that dates her career comes from Free Press Journal and Prabhat Khabar. A third wrestler, Sakshi Malik, is a separate person again, and our profile of Sakshi Malik follows that career.
Before the show: a Pawan Singh song and Daak Khana
Free Press Journal’s profile of 16 October 2026 places her in Haryana and traces her entry into the industry to Bhojpuri music videos. Her first Bhojpuri work was the song Aara Ke Othlali with Pawan Singh, released in January 2025.
Prabhat Khabar describes her the same way on 3 November, as a former co-star of Pawan Singh who worked to build a separate identity after that song. The Haryanvi work came next: Daak Khana, a Chaupal Originals project, opposite Ndee Kundu. Free Press Journal reports a Hindi film, Mahak, as in preparation, with no release date, cast or plot attached to it.
Nothing beyond those titles is on the record. No second Bhojpuri song, award or producer credit appears in the coverage, so the career dates here come to three credits and a reported fourth.
The wild card entry, and how far she got
Times of India reported on 13 October 2026 that Rishabh Jaiswal, Jashwanth Bopanna and Sonam Malik had come in as wild cards, in the same stretch in which Tej Pratap Yadav left the show.
The three did not arrive equal. Free Press Journal reported on 16 October that the Rulers took Rishabh Jaiswal into the penthouse and sent Sonam Malik and Jashwanth Bopanna to the basement, where the Workers live.
She stayed on the Worker side of that split. On 3 November Shehzad Poonawalla won the Ticket to Finale and used the power it carried to send Manish Kashyap and Sonam Malik to the basement, Times of India reported.
The final six were confirmed on 5 November: Shehzad Poonawalla, Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Gautam Gulati, Swara Bhasker, Karan Patel and Niharika Tiwari, per Hindustan Times and Zoom TV. Sonam Malik was not among them, and the season ended on 6 November with Shehzad Poonawalla taking the trophy.
Her son, the divorce case, and what she said on camera
The disclosure came in the episode reported on 16 October. Sonam Malik broke down in front of Kajal Raghwani, showed her a locket and said, “Ye mera beta hai.” She asked Kajal to keep it between them.
Asked where the boy lives, she said Haryana. Asked his age, she said, “7 saal ka hai.” Her reason for being in the house came out in the same conversation: “Usi ke liye main yaha aayi hoon. Mere ko milne nahi dete usse. Ek saal se usko dekha nahi hai.” In translation she said she came for him, that they do not let her meet him and that she has not seen him in a year.
Two weeks later she went further, to Swara Bhasker. Prabhat Khabar reported on 3 November 2026 that she described a divorce case under way and said her husband does not let her meet their son or even speak to him. The same report quotes her saying that she loves her son very much and is not allowed to talk to him, and that her husband’s feelings have turned to the point of wishing her dead.
“We all saw Sonam crying in the latest episode. She has mentioned about her son’s custody twice now. All contestants and their families, saying “Sonam is not a strong person”, should feel embarrassed. She is a fking M.O.T.H.E.R.”
– r/TheRiseandFallIndia, November 2026 (369 upvotes)
The reporting separates into two piles on a close read. The son, his age and his state are her own statements on camera, carried by Free Press Journal and News18. The divorce case is her account too: no filing, court or hearing date appears in that coverage, her husband has not been named in it, and no response from him to any of it has been published.
Not every reply took her side, and the most direct objection in the same thread was about the limits of what viewers actually know:
“We don’t know the other side of the story, please be rational !”
– r/TheRiseandFallIndia, November 2026 (12 upvotes)
Family week, and the kiss that outlived the episode
Family week arrived on 27 October. Sonam Malik’s mother came into the house to meet her and greeted the other contestants. In that round of greetings Niharika Tiwari kissed her on the lips, by accident, and her mother was startled and went down to the floor while Priyanka Chahar Choudhary laughed.
Niharika’s account of the moment, as Free Press Journal carried it, was, “Aunty ne meri pappi le li.” She said her own mother had never kissed her that way.
The two clips sit eleven days apart and belong to the same woman. The kiss needed no context to travel. The account of her son needed the one line she gave it, whispered to a housemate with a locket in her hand.
Her mother is also the only member of her family who appears anywhere in the reporting. No husband and no son has been shown on the show.
Sonam Malik’s husband: what the record shows
None of the reports cited here names him. The coverage calls him “her husband” and connects him to the divorce case she described on camera on 3 November 2026. That is the whole of the public record on the man.
What she has said about him is narrow. He does not let her meet their son, in her account. He wishes she were dead, in the same account. No published response from him is attached to either statement.
Nothing published ties her romantically to anyone on the show. Pairing jokes about a co-star ran through the season’s fan threads, and the only support offered for them was proximity inside a shared house.
A profile built on this record stays small: one marriage in a divorce case, one son she says she cannot see and a name she has not given.
FAQ
Is Sonam Malik married?
On 3 November 2026 Sonam Malik said on Rise and Fall 2 that a divorce case is under way, which puts a marriage on the public record. Her husband has not been named in any report cited here, and no filing has been published.
How old is Sonam Malik?
No published date of birth exists for the actress. Profiles leave the birth field blank, and the dated facts attached to her name begin with the January 2025 release of her first Bhojpuri song. The wrestler Sonam Malik, a different person, was born on 15 April 2002.
Did Sonam Malik win Rise and Fall 2?
No. She entered as a wild card in episode 17 and was not among the six finalists confirmed on 5 November 2026. Shehzad Poonawalla won the season on 6 November.
