Katrina Kaif : Life & Times of a Bollywood Cat

She is the smartest of the Bollywood cats. She knows well that though the proverbial cat may have nine lives but Btown’s glamour furries live only once to meow. So Katrina lives as if Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. And claims every crown tinsel town has to offer.

Gossip mill has always pointed out that Ms. Kaif is no innocent babe, in fact she is a smart operator. Well nothing wrong in that. In the cat-eat-cat world of moviedom one needs beauty plus brains to move ahead.

Her detractors point that Salman Khan was used well and proper by her to reach the present starry heights.

An affair that probably started during the making of Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya (2005) and ended on rocks in 2010. There may be a grain of truth in it, or probably the love cycle could have happily coincided with Katrina’s karma.

In 2003 Kat was fresh from the debacle of Boom. Then in 2005 Maine…happened.

People noticed Katrina in the film and she rode the wave of success with Sallu by her side.Namaste London, Welcome, Partner, Singh Is King…are but those few movies that spelled success for her during this period.

Salman was her soul partner all this while. For a newbie, a British model, a flop actress, a non-hindi speaking heroine, the support of the Khan must have mattered most.


But let’s not take it away from the lady. Katrina had loads of oomph. Pass-grade histrionic abilities and a good star friends (Akshay Kumar for one).

And she had that fire in her belly. She had seen life. In a family of eight siblings. In a working mother. In modelling in London. So she fought to make it big.

She worked hard on her Hindi.( Now she doesn’t gets her lines dubbed. She speaks them herself in Hindi). Worked hard on her relationships. And made the grade.

She never wanted to get tied down in sentimentalities of a love relationship. For her career was prime. That’s why when still in relationship with Salman she did sizzlers with Sallu’s sworn foe John Abraham in New York.

Then she went ahead and did films with Ranbir and painted the town red with talks of her romance with the Kapoor Junior. That again showed her independence.


Later she sighed her desire of working with Badshah Khan !!!

Clearly Salman had outlived his utility in her life.

Now she is the hot property of Yash Chopra camp. But hey, even here she has kept her steel intact and said no to biknis.
For a girl who dared and bared all in Boom that’s quite a resolve.
But that’s the sort of branding she wants now on her image.


Katrina Kaif is now in the phase two of her career.
She is single. An actress with no camps. Lots of helpful male costars.Darling of masses.
And has both cerebral and masala directors panting to sign her on the dotted lines.

With such a beautiful setup no wonder she is living as if Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.