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Charting her own path
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Katrina Kaif has made Bollywood her new home. She tells RANA SIDDIQUI what makes her feel “Welcome” there
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The head turner Katrina Kaif says within two years she got a variety of roles in Bollywood, unlike some senior actors
Bollywood filmmakers have often been accused of not writing comedy roles for heroines. But those working in comedy films aren’t complaining. Katrina Kaif is a case in point. After two successful comedies, Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya and Partner, Katrina’s kitty has got some more spice with her third comedy movie – Anees Bazmee’s Welcome. In the film that released this Friday, Katrina doesn’t do any comedy herself but is happy to be a part of a comedy all the same.
“It doesn’t matter if I don’t play a comic role as such, but I am a catalyst to the comedy that is dished out in the film. My character hence becomes very significant,” asserts Katrina.
As Sanjana in Welcome she is the sister of a mobster, played by Nana Patekar, who is looking for a decent match for his sister. She chances upon Rajeev (played by Akshay Kumar), the nephew of a reputed doctor (Paresh Rawal) who is desperately looking for a girl from a respectable family to marry. Nana also meets him and decides to marry Sanjana with him.
“But I happen to meet Akshay on a cruise elsewhere and we fall in love without knowing my brother’s plans,” says the lady with a British accent.
Balancing Act
Still working on her Hindi, she now writes her dialogues in Hindi and learning some grammar too. With that she is trying to balance the roles she has been playing so far. “I make my own decisions as far as choosing roles is concerned. I pick roles I believe would make me learn a thing or two. I am not born with good acting skills. I am learning on the job. That I had learnt some Kathak in the early stages of my life is proving to be of great help now.”
She still complains about filmdom’s long working hours. “They work from eight in the morning till 10 at night. It gets very tiring and I often feel worn out. As it’s an everyday affair, it becomes a torture. I wish they had a work schedule of eight to six,” she sighs.
And that’s why after shooting in London, Dubai and Mumbai, “in scorching heat for 98 days continuously”, she felt relieved when the film was wrapped up.
She has made Mumbai her home and is completely at ease there. “Bollywood has also accepted me wholeheartedly. Within a short span of two years I got to play a variety of roles, while a senior like Kareena Kapoor had to wait for years to get one Chameli,” she says. And she counts Namastey London as her first woman-centric film. “I don’t think there are few roles for women in Bollywood,” she offers.
Hands full
Indeed, she has her hands full. “I have signed films with Abbas-Mustan (Race), Subhash Ghai (Main Yuvraj), Anees Bazmee (Singh is King), “and one untitled film with Yashraj,” concludes Katrina with a tinge of pride.
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