Childhood and youth
The actress was born in Hong Kong to an Indian father, Mohammed Kaif, and an Englishwoman, Suzanne Turcotte. My father owned his own business, my mother worked as a lawyer, while simultaneously devoting time to charity. The family is large by today's standards - Katrina has six sisters and a brother.
Actress Katrina Kaif
When the girl was still just a child, her parents decided to separate. Dad went to America and took almost no part in raising his heirs. In an interview, the actress admits that as a child she was often jealous of those peers who had fathers.
Over time, my mother became more and more involved in social work; together with her children, the woman wandered around different countries - they lived in Japan and China, in France and England, Switzerland and even in Hawaii. And these are only those states where the family stayed for more than a year. We stayed in a number of countries for a couple of months. Because of this lifestyle, children learned the basics of high school at home.
Katrina Kaif in childhood
From an early age, the girl was particularly dreamy and came up with a bunch of incredible stories that she told to her sisters and brothers. Her interests included music and she watched musicals with admiration. I adored wonderful fairy tales brought to the screen by directors and animators; I watched “Mary Poppins” and “Beauty and the Beast” dozens of times.
How does the actress relax?
Katrina has three favorite vacation spots on the planet. She loves Dubai, at one time the actress visited there every year. She has a favorite shopping mall in the city center (one of the largest in the world). She can walk around it for hours, do shopping, and when she gets tired, relax in small cafes.
London is very close to her heart because the Kaif family lives there. Every time she takes a break from work, she comes to this cool city, has fun with her sisters, and in the evenings they all have dinner together in amazing cafes and restaurants.
Katrina's third favorite city is Spanish Marbella. She once spent her vacation here and fell in love with this place completely and irrevocably, after which she tries to come to Spain as often as possible. In addition to this country, the actress can also endlessly travel around Havana and Italy.
The actress tries to take a vacation once a year and calls it relaxing. During her vacation, Katrina becomes an adventurous person - she goes scuba diving and can jump from a height on an elastic rope (Rope-jumping) or with a parachute. The actress really likes extreme sports. Having learned about night safaris in Singapore, where participants walk in pitch darkness, Katrina rushed there on one of her next vacations. And this despite the fact that she is terrified of the dark and insects. Coming face to face with hyenas or a rhinoceros is the kind of adrenaline rush Kaif loves.
Since since childhood the actress has lived in many cities and countries and encountered different cultures, she adapts very easily to new places and the mentality of new people in her travels. He always tries to see and read as much as possible about the place where he is going to go in advance. She never lies on the beach for hours, walks a lot, and loves to find something new on her own.
The only thing Katrina is paranoid about when traveling is losing her luggage. This happened to her more than once and contributed to the fact that the actress now travels light. However, she doesn’t like to take a lot of things with her on vacation. What she definitely needs is comfortable clothes, sunglasses and credit cards.
In new countries, Kaif always finds time for shopping. She mainly buys a lot of perfume and dresses, although in everyday life she does not like dresses and heels, preferring jeans and T-shirts. Sometimes she buys postcards with local attractions because she is too lazy to take photos herself. And almost always on vacation, Katrina has to buy an extra suitcase, because she brings a bunch of gifts and souvenirs to her family, loved ones and friends.
Model
Tall beauty Katrina Kaif began her career as a model. The girl was only 14 years old when she won the Hawaiian beauty pageant.
Model Katrina Kaif
A jewelry company entered into a contract with the promising fashion model, and a little later she moved to the British capital and set off to conquer the catwalks at a professional level. The girl was invited to regularly demonstrate the work of famous designers at London Fashion Week.
Movies
At one of the fashion shows, the charming mestizo woman was noticed by film director Kaizad Gustad. The girl received a tempting offer to star in a feature film that the British were launching together with the Indians. Katrina, of course, happily agreed and went to India, where the filming took place.
In 2003, the erotic film “Boom” was released, where yesterday’s model, and today an aspiring actress, met with Indian cinema stars Jackie Shroff and Amitabh Bachchan. However, critics and audiences did not appreciate the debut.
Katrina Kaif in the movie "Boom"
However, the colorful girl attracted the attention of other directors and decided to stay in India, where she combined her acting profession with modeling - she decorated advertising campaigns for major global brands. 2005 was a breakthrough year for Katrina Kaif in her film career. The girl played in three films at once, among them “How I Loved,” which became a hit. The actress was named “Discovery of the Year”, presented with the Max Stardust Award, and was invited to Bollywood.
The directors showered the young lady with offers. The year 2007 was successful, when Katrina shone in four films. The comedy “Partner” brought in unimaginable receipts, on the set of which Salman Khan, Govinda, and Lara Dutta gathered. In this production, Kaif got the role of the boss; in her role, the girl filled the film with lightness and freshness. It is noteworthy that “Partner” is a remake of the Hollywood comedy “Rules of Filming: The Hitch Method,” but the Indians’ work surpassed the original.
Katrina Kaif in the movie Look Again
Katrina Kaif rapidly replenished her personal collection of best roles and films. In 2008, her creative baggage adorned the image of the secretary and mistress of two brothers in the film “Race”, where she worked with Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Khanna. After that, she played the main role in “King Singh,” which was called Katrina’s sixth successful film.
A year later, Kaif reincarnated as student Maya, the bride of a terrorist in New York. The role was easy because her character faced racial prejudice in the same way as the actress herself when she lived in England. For this film, Katrina was nominated for the first time for the main Indian Filmfare Award. She ended the year with another successful film, “An Amazing Story of a Strange Love” - the audience was delighted with the performance of their favorite actress paired with Ranbir Kapoor.
The directors adored Katrina for her perseverance in achieving her goals. For a long time, the girl was dubbed by her colleagues because she did not speak Hindi. But soon she started talking, and at the same time began to independently perform national dances on camera. So, in 2012 she performed brilliantly with a dance number in the film “The Fiery Path”.
In the following years, the actress transformed herself into everyone. Katrina had the opportunity to play a Pakistani intelligence agent (“There Was One Tiger”), a circus star (“Bikers 3”), a bank employee who steals a diamond (“That Very Day”). In Abhishek Kapoor's production of Possession, she even had to dye her hair bright red.
Katrina Kaif in the movie "Tiger Lives"
One day, a girl was lucky enough to star with Yasha Chopra, who in Bollywood is called the king of romance. The director knows how to present heroines in a favorable light. Katrina Kaif dreamed of working with Chopra, and such a chance arose - she, along with Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma, appeared in his film “While I Live,” which earned three tens of millions of dollars at the box office, becoming an undisputed hit.
2017 did not bring satisfaction to the actress, although viewers received two film works with Katrina’s participation. The action film “The Tiger Lives” and “Detective Jagga” failed to recoup the money spent on filming.
Outside the cinema
Katrina does not like to talk to journalists. Previously, she was favorable to them, but some publications wrote unpleasant stories about the actress. For a long time she was quite calm about this, but, in the end, her patience ran out, and Kaif decided to protect herself from false gossip and rumors. So, for some time now, the actress has been keeping a long distance with the media, so as not to suffer the pain of incorrect stories about her.
Katrina starts each new day quite early, waking up at six in the morning. She has one interesting life rule - she turns on her phone only three hours after waking up, at nine in the morning.
She has an impeccable figure, but this is the result of intensive yoga, running, football, cycling, strength training, Pilates, and swimming. Katrina works in the gym every day from 1 to 3 hours. To avoid getting bored, she changes the type of activity every day.
Katrina is fluent in English, it is her native language, she speaks and thinks in it. For work, I learned to read Hindi, speaks this language with my staff, but does not give interviews in it. He also knows Spanish, a little French and understands Italian.
Kaif never discusses people, especially in public. As, however, he does not praise anyone, lifting him to the skies.
The actress's culinary preferences include rice, homemade dahi yoghurt and well-prepared black coffee. When she has time, she cooks herself; she very rarely goes to restaurants and bars. Unlike most Bollywood stars, Katrina does not drink alcohol or smoke.
The actress prefers cars to jewelry. At every opportunity she tries to get behind the wheel herself. The best relaxation for her is riding a bike through the city at night. She loves European films, follows the release of all new films, and can almost always be seen in cinemas at the premiere screenings of Western films. Kaif does not like to attend parties.
Personal life
Of course, the personal life of the Bollywood beauty is under close attention of the press. In 2003, journalists enthusiastically informed readers about Katrina’s affair with film and television star Salman Khan.
Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif
Later, the girl admitted that for the first time in her life she had serious feelings for a man and was grateful for his enormous support. The experienced artist encouraged the aspiring star professionally: when things got hard, he convinced him to get up and overcome the difficulties of his chosen field.
The fans rejoiced for seven years. It almost came to a wedding, at least Salman proposed his hand and heart to his beloved. But the actress refused, citing the fact that for now her career is more important than family life.
Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif
A few months before the official separation, the actress starred in the film “An Amazing Strange Love Story” and during the work she was fascinated by Ranbir Kapoor. But fans did not know about the couple’s warm relationship until 2013. Then the press appeared photographs taken by the paparazzi during the actors' joint vacation. Rumors spread that the young people were engaged.
After another three years, the star couple broke the hearts of fans by announcing their separation, although they had already been sharing life between two for a year. Until now, the girl has not been seen in another romantic relationship.
Katrina Kaif now
In the summer of 2021, filming began on a new film starring Katrina Kaif, “Bandits from Hindostan.” The ensemble cast also includes Indian screen stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan.
Katrina Kaif in 2018
The film crew of the historical adventure film directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya is touring Malta and Thailand. Spectators will be presented with colorful sea battles, no worse than in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and vibrant dance numbers. The film's budget is $33 million. The world premiere of "Bandits from Hindostan" is in cinemas in mid-autumn 2018.
"Bikers 3"
The actress's last notable work was Vijay Krishna Acharya's action movie Bikers 3. The main character of this picture is Sahir, who dreams of taking revenge on the banking system. Once they did not give his father a loan, because of this he committed suicide. Now he plans to rob as many banks as possible.
At the same time, Sahir is trying to restore his father’s life’s work - his circus. He takes dancer Aliya as his assistant. She is played by Katrina Kaif. On the same day, Sahir schedules a major bank robbery and the first performance of a revived circus troupe.
The plan succeeds, the criminal leaves with the money, but the police wound him in the shoulder. They suspect who is behind the daring robbery, so they show up at the circus for the opening night. However, the police have no other evidence other than a shoulder wound. There is not a scratch on Sakhir. Who is really behind these robberies and what role the heroine Kaif will play in this story, the audience will have to find out.
Filmography
- 2003 – “Boom”
- 2004 – “Princess Mallishwari
- 2005 – “Struck by Lightning”
- 2006 – “Premonition of Love”
- 2007 – “Partner”
- 2008 – “Race”
- 2008 – “King Singh”
- 2009 – “New York”
- 2009 – “An Amazing Strange Love Story”
- 2009 – “Big Trouble”
- 2010 – “Politicians”
- 2010 – “King of Deception”
- 2011 – “Bodyguard”
- 2012 – “Fiery Path”
- 2012 – “Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiger”
- 2013 – “Bikers 3”
- 2014 – “Bang-Bang” (in another translation “That very day”)
- 2015 – “Ghost”
- 2016 – “Obsession”
- 2015 – “Look again” (in another translation “Look again and again”)
- 2017 – “Detective Jagga”
- 2017 – “The Tiger is Alive”
- 2018 – “Bandits from Hindostan”
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