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Minna Zutshi meets actor Katrina Kaif, who was recently in Jalandhar
SHE’S young and she oozes appeal. Unlike other models who wear a signature scowl on their face, Katrina Kaif loves to flaunt her smile. Her talk about herself is punctuated with a big, bright smile, though the smile stiffens slightly as she talks of the dog-eat-dog world of modelling. Excerpts from an interview. On herself I am very much my natural self on the ramp. There’s no attitude-throwing. The real Katrina is the one you see on the ramp. I am rather good at adjusting to new places. I have been a globetrotter all my 21 years. I never visited Kashmir, though my father hails from that place. My mom’s British. Yet my stay in London has been hardly for four years. I wanted to be an engineer and even enrolled for a course in engineering. Those were tomboyish days and they are long over, though I retain my passion for horse riding. The media Sometimes the media is negative. There are some scribes with a penchant for making nastiest of comments. They revel in tearing to shreds your personal life. Why give undue importance to tidbits that have nothing to do with my profession? I want my work to speak. Even if there is some truth to what is being said about my personal life, it is still off-limits for public. There’s no point in going the whole hog with denials. If you are married and your name is linked with someone else, it’s cruel. Much-publicised affairs are only gossip. Modelling is not all gloss-and-glamour. It’s a profession where you have to be sharp-eyed. There are opportunities abroad, in India things are not so good. For us models, if we don’t reach the top bracket, life is not easy. There’s exploitation of girls who join the glamour industry armed only with starry dreams. They are unaware of the wide range of avenues in the glamour business. The casting couch is not
a piece of fiction. But there is no element of coercion in it. For
those open to it, it’s a symbiotic relationship with mutual
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