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Exclusive interview of Celebrity actress Katrina Kaif on Singh is Kinng :
If Singh is King, Kate is Queen! When Katrina Kaif walked into INOX (Forum) on Sunday afternoon, many of those watching movies at the four screens left their shows midway and rushed out to catch a glimpse of the lovely lady. After everyone had their eyeful, then this exclusive interview was taken with Katrina about movies, men and mom...
She came, she smiled, she charmed. In a very Indian empire-line salwar-kurta ensemble, she urged all the plex patrons to catch Singh is Kinng first-day-first-show on Friday. Promotion bit taken care of, Katrina settled down in the room of the INOX (Forum) general manager. And surprise, surprise she started discussing prospective first weekend figures with Singh is Kinng’s Kolkata distributor. “How big do you think it will open? Will it be better than Welcome? Will it be as big as Om Shanti Om?” Distribution talk about the August 8 release done, Bollywood’s most beautiful heroine (sorry, Ash!) got chatty…
One hardly sees an actor taking so much interest in collection figures…
A lot of people don’t get involved in these kinds of things. But I find it very interesting because most of my friends in the industry are more from the commercial side. They are real commercial people. So I got to know a lot of stuff from them and I got very interested. If you ask me the figures in different territories of my last few films, I can tell you. And I don’t get a chance to come to Calcutta every week. So I was checking with the distributor here how things are going and what to expect. You get to know things that people don’t want to tell you or things that the media has no clue about.
Why are both you and Akshay going so big with “Singh is Kinng”?
I think the film is important for both of us. Akshay’s last film with Yash Raj (Tashan) was more of a multistarrer. This is Akshay Kumar’s solo film — Singh is Kinng! It is extremely important for him. As for me, I just want all my films to do well. And I am not being greedy (smiles). I just want to go to sleep on the night of August 7, thinking that there’s nothing else I could have done. That’s why I am after the life of my producers. I personally feel, seven days before the release of a film, an actor and actress has to go to the seven most important territories. Because you need to make people aware. You are coming just five times a year. Given a chance, I would do this seven-day thing before every release of mine.
Namastey London, Apne, Partner, Welcome, Race… what are you doing right?
I have been meeting the distributors (laughs)! You can never know… I think it’s just God’s grace. I think He decides what is fit for you. And I think He finds me fit for all this at this moment. But I did start out with a very rocky phase. And maybe sometimes it’s a good way to start out. I look at it from a positive point of view. Then you don’t take things for granted, you work hard for things… And that’s why me and Akshay work together so often (Singh is Kinng is their fourth film together). As everyone knows, he is super hardworking.
But won’t it be a sense of déjà vu seeing the two of you together or is that the intention?
Actually, it’s something we didn’t think of going into the film but later realized. See, in Namastey London I was playing this brash girl and he was playing this simple boy. That was a completely different chemistry. Welcome I would like to call a more commercial kind of chemistry, simple and straightforward, no such dynamics in our love for each other. Now we have realized how different Singh is Kinng is. Akshay is playing this loud kind of character, almost like the Indianised version of my character from Namastey London. And in a nice contrast I am also a very loud kind of a character, not a very shy girlfriend. I am very energetic in the scenes we have together. So, people would get to see yet another type of chemistry. They wouldn’t go ‘oh, they are again looking into each other’s eyes, he is looking at her, and she is looking away’… Except in the one sari song maybe but it won’t bore you because of the time at which it comes in the film. It’s beautiful.
Namastey London was more about you. Singh is Kinng seems far more about Akshay. You would prefer the former…
Of course, I would (laughs)! Every time I would complain that I need more dialogues and I need more scenes, Akshay would say, ‘Excuse me! I did Namastey London…. So stand in the corner and be quiet. Seriously’! And I would go ‘Akshay’… and he would say ‘Seriously’! I think everyone realized in Namastey London that it was quite incredible for such a big male star to do a film which is mostly about this girl. Everyone told Akshay he was making a big mistake. I owe him a lot for doing a film like that. So every time I would be in complaining mode, he would say: ‘Go, see Namastey London five times and come back and give the shot!’
Do you think all these hits have changed the public’s perception about you?
It’s difficult to understand that, honestly! But somehow I think it has. When I see families and kids these days, I feel in their eyes and smile that they now treat me as one of their own. Sometime back I think I was a little bit alien to them. They must have been like: ‘Hmmm, nice girl, but what’s she doing here?’
And what about within the industry? Your birthday party was Bollywood’s Oscar bash with all the Khans in attendance…
(Laughs) Yeah! I wouldn’t comment much on the party but I will say one thing that this birthday party of mine would be one of the most talked about events of Bollywood ever! Sometimes you have to look at things with a little bit of humour and not get too serious about it. But as far as the industry adulation goes, I am really enjoying it. As you said, people’s attitude towards you changes. And you think, hello, I have not changed. Before they would say about you, ‘no this will not work’ and today they are like ‘yes yes yes, wonderful, let’s do it’.
But will you continue doing such entertainers forever?
See, I would like to do more films with David (Dhawan) and Anees (Bazmee) no matter what people say — that their films won’t get you awards. That’s what people want to see me in. And they are my awards. They expect certain things from you. If you suddenly take off your pretty skirts and tops and wear a white sari, they may not like it. I understand the importance of that cinema and I know what you are saying and I wouldn’t wait for 10 years to do that cinema. In fact, I am offered more of those scripts than the usual commercial films. It’s shocking but I get twice the number of such scripts. But I think I should first have stability with the distributors, saleability. You have to feel secure because at the end of the day the best of actresses have a life span of 10 to 12 years. After that, what? I have a big family and I have to think of the future. And once you are secure, you can try the other kind of films.
You were slated to do Devi Chaudhurani with Rituparno Ghosh…
See, Rituparno is lovely and a very talented guy. But he has so many ideas and he changes his mind so many times that it becomes difficult for us. I am doing a film next year with Prakash Jha called Rajneeti. It’s a political drama, very award-winning kind of a film. Now people will say you are doing it to win awards but that is completely untrue because then I should have done this other kind of hardcore artistic films. When I heard the script of Rajneeti, I felt that this is an interesting and entertaining film. When I usually hear these art films, I am like ‘wonderful’ but I feel like falling asleep 10 minutes into the script! But Prakash Jha’s script is wow. It is not ha-ha entertaining but it is entertaining. So I went for a slightly riskier choice.
How do you deal with all that is written about you and Salman? How do you react first thing in the morning?
I open the paper and I look at the picture first and I am like, ‘Am I looking okay?’ I don’t even read the articles and if it’s a larger story, I am like that’s a large space they have given me today. How sweet! Look at the positive side of things. One of my friends called up and said: ‘Do you co-own or have a stake in these Mumbai tabloids? They give you two whole pages everyday!’ They just love me. There’s no point in reading them and crying about things. But my mom gets extremely irritated about all this. She calls me up all the time and goes: ‘Is this true?’ I am like ‘Mom! Why do you read it? You should know these by now…’ She is the worst layman you can get. She is like ‘Are you fighting again?’ Oh god!
What is the best and the worst thing about Katrina? Tell us.
She came, she smiled, she charmed. In a very Indian empire-line salwar-kurta ensemble, she urged all the plex patrons to catch Singh is Kinng first-day-first-show on Friday. Promotion bit taken care of, Katrina settled down in the room of the INOX (Forum) general manager. And surprise, surprise she started discussing prospective first weekend figures with Singh is Kinng’s Kolkata distributor. “How big do you think it will open? Will it be better than Welcome? Will it be as big as Om Shanti Om?” Distribution talk about the August 8 release done, Bollywood’s most beautiful heroine (sorry, Ash!) got chatty…
One hardly sees an actor taking so much interest in collection figures…
A lot of people don’t get involved in these kinds of things. But I find it very interesting because most of my friends in the industry are more from the commercial side. They are real commercial people. So I got to know a lot of stuff from them and I got very interested. If you ask me the figures in different territories of my last few films, I can tell you. And I don’t get a chance to come to Calcutta every week. So I was checking with the distributor here how things are going and what to expect. You get to know things that people don’t want to tell you or things that the media has no clue about.
Why are both you and Akshay going so big with “Singh is Kinng”?
I think the film is important for both of us. Akshay’s last film with Yash Raj (Tashan) was more of a multistarrer. This is Akshay Kumar’s solo film — Singh is Kinng! It is extremely important for him. As for me, I just want all my films to do well. And I am not being greedy (smiles). I just want to go to sleep on the night of August 7, thinking that there’s nothing else I could have done. That’s why I am after the life of my producers. I personally feel, seven days before the release of a film, an actor and actress has to go to the seven most important territories. Because you need to make people aware. You are coming just five times a year. Given a chance, I would do this seven-day thing before every release of mine.
Namastey London, Apne, Partner, Welcome, Race… what are you doing right?
I have been meeting the distributors (laughs)! You can never know… I think it’s just God’s grace. I think He decides what is fit for you. And I think He finds me fit for all this at this moment. But I did start out with a very rocky phase. And maybe sometimes it’s a good way to start out. I look at it from a positive point of view. Then you don’t take things for granted, you work hard for things… And that’s why me and Akshay work together so often (Singh is Kinng is their fourth film together). As everyone knows, he is super hardworking.
But won’t it be a sense of déjà vu seeing the two of you together or is that the intention?
Actually, it’s something we didn’t think of going into the film but later realized. See, in Namastey London I was playing this brash girl and he was playing this simple boy. That was a completely different chemistry. Welcome I would like to call a more commercial kind of chemistry, simple and straightforward, no such dynamics in our love for each other. Now we have realized how different Singh is Kinng is. Akshay is playing this loud kind of character, almost like the Indianised version of my character from Namastey London. And in a nice contrast I am also a very loud kind of a character, not a very shy girlfriend. I am very energetic in the scenes we have together. So, people would get to see yet another type of chemistry. They wouldn’t go ‘oh, they are again looking into each other’s eyes, he is looking at her, and she is looking away’… Except in the one sari song maybe but it won’t bore you because of the time at which it comes in the film. It’s beautiful.
Namastey London was more about you. Singh is Kinng seems far more about Akshay. You would prefer the former…
Of course, I would (laughs)! Every time I would complain that I need more dialogues and I need more scenes, Akshay would say, ‘Excuse me! I did Namastey London…. So stand in the corner and be quiet. Seriously’! And I would go ‘Akshay’… and he would say ‘Seriously’! I think everyone realized in Namastey London that it was quite incredible for such a big male star to do a film which is mostly about this girl. Everyone told Akshay he was making a big mistake. I owe him a lot for doing a film like that. So every time I would be in complaining mode, he would say: ‘Go, see Namastey London five times and come back and give the shot!’
Do you think all these hits have changed the public’s perception about you?
It’s difficult to understand that, honestly! But somehow I think it has. When I see families and kids these days, I feel in their eyes and smile that they now treat me as one of their own. Sometime back I think I was a little bit alien to them. They must have been like: ‘Hmmm, nice girl, but what’s she doing here?’
And what about within the industry? Your birthday party was Bollywood’s Oscar bash with all the Khans in attendance…
(Laughs) Yeah! I wouldn’t comment much on the party but I will say one thing that this birthday party of mine would be one of the most talked about events of Bollywood ever! Sometimes you have to look at things with a little bit of humour and not get too serious about it. But as far as the industry adulation goes, I am really enjoying it. As you said, people’s attitude towards you changes. And you think, hello, I have not changed. Before they would say about you, ‘no this will not work’ and today they are like ‘yes yes yes, wonderful, let’s do it’.
But will you continue doing such entertainers forever?
See, I would like to do more films with David (Dhawan) and Anees (Bazmee) no matter what people say — that their films won’t get you awards. That’s what people want to see me in. And they are my awards. They expect certain things from you. If you suddenly take off your pretty skirts and tops and wear a white sari, they may not like it. I understand the importance of that cinema and I know what you are saying and I wouldn’t wait for 10 years to do that cinema. In fact, I am offered more of those scripts than the usual commercial films. It’s shocking but I get twice the number of such scripts. But I think I should first have stability with the distributors, saleability. You have to feel secure because at the end of the day the best of actresses have a life span of 10 to 12 years. After that, what? I have a big family and I have to think of the future. And once you are secure, you can try the other kind of films.
You were slated to do Devi Chaudhurani with Rituparno Ghosh…
See, Rituparno is lovely and a very talented guy. But he has so many ideas and he changes his mind so many times that it becomes difficult for us. I am doing a film next year with Prakash Jha called Rajneeti. It’s a political drama, very award-winning kind of a film. Now people will say you are doing it to win awards but that is completely untrue because then I should have done this other kind of hardcore artistic films. When I heard the script of Rajneeti, I felt that this is an interesting and entertaining film. When I usually hear these art films, I am like ‘wonderful’ but I feel like falling asleep 10 minutes into the script! But Prakash Jha’s script is wow. It is not ha-ha entertaining but it is entertaining. So I went for a slightly riskier choice.
How do you deal with all that is written about you and Salman? How do you react first thing in the morning?
I open the paper and I look at the picture first and I am like, ‘Am I looking okay?’ I don’t even read the articles and if it’s a larger story, I am like that’s a large space they have given me today. How sweet! Look at the positive side of things. One of my friends called up and said: ‘Do you co-own or have a stake in these Mumbai tabloids? They give you two whole pages everyday!’ They just love me. There’s no point in reading them and crying about things. But my mom gets extremely irritated about all this. She calls me up all the time and goes: ‘Is this true?’ I am like ‘Mom! Why do you read it? You should know these by now…’ She is the worst layman you can get. She is like ‘Are you fighting again?’ Oh god!
What is the best and the worst thing about Katrina? Tell us.
3 comments:
katrina kaif is very beautiful
katrina is very hot and beautiful
The Best Thing is She Has Very Good Boobs And worse Thing Is that She Doesn`t Sow Them To us.
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