THE TIDE TURNS
While an afternoon sun slants through the roof of her well-appointed house, Katrina Kaif is in a tizzy.
There’s an Instagram live to be done, several outfits to be tried. She also has me to contend with and then a meal of salad and cutlets to polish off. Her business manager Prarthana hovers around protectively. Besides the much-touted Bharat opposite Salman Khan, Katrina is also slated to do Sooryanvanshi with Akshay Kumar. There’s talk that she will sign up with a topnotch Indian cosmetic brand soon. She also plans to do something with India’s unsung athletes. But right now all focus is on Bharat, which will have her show her acting chops after she wowed the critics in Aanand L Rai’s Zero. For the longest time, her beautiful movie-star looks made her the favourite whipping girl of critics, even as she starred in one big hit after another. Last year was a lull when Thugs of Hindostan and Zero came unstuck.
“OUT OF ALL THE FILMS I'VE DONE WITH ALI ABBAS ZAFAR, I WAS WITH HIM THE MOST DURING BHARAT . EVEN IF I WAS NOT SHOOTING, I'S SIT AND WATCHTHE SHOTS... I was I was firm about staying in this bubble and not allowing anything to take my focus away ”
But she’s like the proverbial boxer in the ring waiting to feint and parry and strike yet another knockout punch… Tell me all the New Year resolutions that you’ve broken this year.
I genuinely didn’t make any New Year resolutions. The year before last I made a bunch of them. But the things I’d asked for, the things I’d wanted so desperately, which I don’t want anymore, didn’t happen.
What were the things you wanted?
“You have to respect anyone, who has been in your life in the past. You’ve shared something with that person... BITTERNESS WEIGHS YOU DOWN... I’D RATHER GO THROUGH THE JOURNEY WITH A LIGHT BACKPACK THAN A HEAVY SUITCASE OF RESENTMENT”
() No chance. No chance. That I won’t get into. But this year, I didn’t make any resolutions. I’d rather speak about what towards the end of July. I decided I’d work on this film with a different approach because as an actor you get fatigued after a while. You’ve got to excite yourself. You can’t just put on make-up and do your hair day after day. I decided until the day wraps up, I wouldn’t think an iota about the future. Even if the world is falling on my head, I’ll deal with it after the film. Luckily, the world did not fall on my head. I had the most peaceful, smooth and exciting shoot. It gave me a lot. I felt fulfilled.
