Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif's Rise to Stardom in Bollywood

Katrina Kaif's greatest problem, when she entered Bollywood, was her inability to speak proper Hindustani. Katrina Kaif was fourteen, when she first started out on her career, as a model for jewellery campaign in London and was first discovered by London-based Kaizad Gustad, who cast her in his film, "Boom." She persevered through a few flops, but quickly made her way to the top, within eight years.

Born in Hong Kong to an Indian Kashmiri father and an English mother, she spent the first few weeks of her life moving from one country to another and finally settled down for a couple of months, in England, before arriving in Mumbai. From 2005 to 2009, she completed several movies, which were not box office material in Hollywood though she started displaying signs of a star in the making, in films such as Namastey London and Apne. From then on she was unstoppable. She went to improve her acting skills and improving her Hindi, so that she no longer had to get her conversations dubbed.

From then on Kaif did not look back. She was cast against Akshay Kumar, in Singh is King and with John Abraham in Kabir Khan's drama of terrorism, New York. She proved that she could perform equally well in character roles as well as glamour roles. In 2009, she received the first nomination for Best Actress category for Filmfare Awards. This year, 2011, she starred in the box office hit movie, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

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Ten Best Movies of Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif a British model and Indian actress titled as style diva of Bollywood. She first entered the Bollywood in 2003 and in last seven years she has worked in different films of different genres. Here are the top ten movies by Katrina.

    1) Maine Pyaar Kyun Kia:

It was the first big hit of Katrina which released in 2005. Its about the relationships of a doctor Samir(Salman Khan) who is stuck between two women: a patient with suicide tendencies named Sonia(Katrina Kaif) and his nurse Naina (Sushmita Sen) and another character Pyaare (Sohail Khan) who loves Sonia.

    2) Humko deewana kar gaye:

The first romantic hit of Katrina. She played the role of Jia A. Yashvardhan who is fiancé of Anil Kapoor but falls in love with Akshay Kumar who is also engaged with Bipasha Basu. The movie proved a milestone for Katrina.

    3) Namaste London:

In 2006 this romantic comedy movie released where Katrina played an Indian British girl Jasmeet Malhotra (Jazz) against Akshay Kumar. The movie is about those foreign born Indians who forgets there roots as Katrina in movie. The concept is similar with Poorab or Pashchim of Manoj Kumar.

    4) Partner:

A comedy genre movie in 2007 as Priya Jaisingh against the comedy king Govinda. The another pair in movie is Salman Khan and Lara Dutta. Govinda secretly loves Katrina and Salman being a love guru helps Govinda to express his love.

    5) Welcome:

An another release of Katrina the same year where she plays Sanjana Shetty against Akshay Kumar 2007. She is sister of three underworld dons who want a good match for their sister. It's a situational comedy where all the characters really did well and the movie was a great success.

    6) Race:

Again in 2007 a suspense thriller by Abbas mastan in which Katrina played her first Negative role on Big screen.She plays the character of Sophia who is secretry to Saif Ali Khan but secretly loves his hostile step brother Akshay Khanna.

    7) Newyork:

A great critic and commercial success based on 9/11 and its after math. It's the story of three students Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham and Katrina Kaif as Maya. Katrina astonished people with her acting in this movie.

    8) Blue:

Its considered as India's first underwater thriller film where Katrina plays the role of a Biker chick and cameo Nikki. The movie couldn't do well on the box office.

    9) Ajab prem ki gazab kahani:

A sweet romantic movie of Katrina Kaif and Ranbeer Kapoor where Ranbeer Kapoor plays Prem a Happy go lucky person and Katrina as Jennifer a sweet and simple girl whose love changes Prem as a hard working man.

    10) Rajneeti:

The movie is inspired with Mahabharat epic and all characters represents Mahabharat's characters in present politics. Katrina played Indu Pratap and received favorable views from critics.