Exotic beauty Katrina Kaif has successfully shattered the glass ceiling and every rule in Bollywood. Despite being an outsider and an inability to speak Hindi she charted out a successful career path in the Indian Film Industry. Katrina Kaif never failed to do away with each and every stereotype that came her way. She could barely speak Hindi but dared to dream to make it big in Bollywood. Starting out with the critical and commercial disaster Boom (1999), today she is amongst the highest paid actors in our country.
Over the years, Katrina has evolved as an artiste who understand her limitations, works on her strengths as an entertainer, and has dared to make some really smart choices. As Katrina Kaif celebrates her birthday today, Wedding Affair brings to you her best films from over the years.
Namastey London (2007)
In this one, Katrina starred as a rich NRI who falls for the charm of an Indian guy who is a huge believer in Indian values. Manmohan Malhotra (Rishi Kapoor), an Indian NRI living in London wishes to get his daughter, Jasmeet (Katrina Kaif) married to someone from India. She reluctantly agrees to marry her dad friend’s son Arjun (Akshay Kumar) to placate her father but upon returning to England, she refuses to recognise her marriage with Arjun as there is no proof of the wedding. Though they are separate, circumstances force Jasmeet to see a different side of Arjun. She likes the way he takes pride in Indian culture and values. She begins to admire him from afar and soon falls in love with him. Whether or not she decides to come back to him forms the crux of the film.
Raajneeti (2010)
The film was inspired by The Mahabharata, The Godfather, and also Indian politics. One can say Katrina played the character of Draupadi in the film. Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor) wants to return back to the US to his girlfriend but stays back when his father, a prominent politician, is shot dead. He then treads a long-drawn path of revenge, willing to sacrifice everything he holds sacred, even the woman he loves. Ranbir was both Arjuna and Krishna rolled into one. Ajay Devgn played Karna. Manoj Bajpayee was Duryodhan. While Arjun Rampal was both Yudhisthira and Bheema. Nana Patekar was Bhishma. Katrina impressed even in her small role as a woman unwittingly drawn into politics.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
Katrina had a small but important role in a boy’s only film. She plays a diving instructor who helps Hrithik Roshan’s character overcome his fear of water. ZNMD centred around a road trip taken by three friends, Arjun (Hrithik), Kabir (Abhay) and Imran (Farhan). While Kabir works for his family’s construction business, Arjun is an investment baker and Imran is a copywriter. They plan a three-week road trip across Spain before Kabir’s marriage and make a pact that each will pursue a thing that they were afraid of doing during the length of the trip. Kabir chooses underwater diving and Arjun who doesn’t know how to swim gets to spend time with diving instructor Laila (Katrina Kaif). The road trip helps the three friends to find fresh perspectives about their own life and about each other.
Zero (2018)
Katrina Kaif delivered a knockout performance playing a superstar named Babita Kumari. She laid bare her emotions in the film and her raw and visceral portrayal came in for a lot of praise. Her character merited a standalone film of her own. Zero was an ambitious project by Aanand L Rai that revolved around a dwarf, played by Shah Rukh Khan whose ambitions knew no limit. Anushka played a genius-level space scientist, who tragically is suffering from cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound in the film.
Wedding Affair wishes Katrina Kaif a very happy birthday!
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