Birthday girl Kat flies off to Italy

Katrina turns 25 today. And today, she will be fulfilling a long cherished dream. Katrina is immensely proud of one thing about herself. "I am a good daughter, I hear Cancerians generally are. If that is true, I hope to get a Cancerian daughter some day," she had told DNA.

Today, Katrina is proving that once again. It's been a dream to take her mother and her siblings (one brother and six sisters) to a resort in south Italy. The family has been planning to go there for years now. But its Katrina's busy schedule for the last two-and-half years that has been keeping them from doing so.

The family had apparently even booked tickets to go to the resort last Christmas. Katrina had requested for a 10-day off from her producers. But she had to cancel it last minute as she was requested to do a music video for New York and shoot some portions of her films, De Dhana Dhan and Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani. But this time, Katrina made sure that none of their plans go awry.

After all, a joint holiday meant adjusting of schedules of her mother and seven siblings--her brother, who's in London, mum who is in Chennai and her five older sisters, who are scattered around the world and Isabelle, her younger sister.

Confirming the same, before flying off for her holiday, Katrina says, "Yes, I am glad, finally we have been able to manage to get together and go for this long looked forward to holiday. I don't need to say I am going to have a blast."

Kat's brother Michael Kaif is an adventure enthusiast and is a professional rock climber and skier. So, apart from Katrina, it's Michael who is most difficult to be pinned down for a holiday. Mum Marie has a charity foundation in Madurai. Sister Isabelle, though in London completing her studies, hopes to come to Mumbai soon to live with Kat and pursue a career in films. The family last had a holiday together six years back.

This day last year
Katrina's birthday last year can be easily considered one of the significant days in the history of Bollywood, as two superstars, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan decided to get their animosity out and fight it out in the open, presumably over the television shows that they were respectively hosting. In the process, a lot of simmering issues came out in the fore.

It was After Hrs that Salman Khan chose to speak to after the fight. He had said, "I won't deny that there is a problem between us. There has been this kind of animosity between us for a long time. In fact, this is the third time we have fought. We have tried being friends, but it just doesn't seem possible. We are different people. We are two different individuals. He may be a great person, but his values and scruples are not the same as mine. I can't continue being a buddy to someone I don't get along with. I am not the kinds who would pretend to be great friends with someone..."

True to his word, even today, Salman and Shah Rukh remain foes. A surprise development however, was later Aamir Khan decided to side with Salman (considering that Aamir and SRK were anyway not in great terms).

Then they dramatically came together for a cause, to support the producers during the standoff between the producers and multiplex owners. Akshay Kumar, who generally works individually, also started showing signs of support towards Salman, which he maintains even today. Shah Rukh on his part mended his relationship with the Bachchans.

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Akshay treats Katrina like a baby

Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif is said to be a golden on-screen couple after Shahrukh-Kajol.

The pair has delivered number of hits and in casting opposite each other number of times, they have developed a soft corner for one another.

They have spent much time together and in the course of shooting, they have known about each other’s weakness, strength, liking and disliking. As Akshay knows very well how sensitive his leading lady is, he run down to Kat's rescue when she was completely drenched in a sexy chiffon sari and strap blouse while shooting for Priyadarshan’s ‘De Dana Dan’.

Akshay dressed in thin kurta too was wet as they were dancing in rain but without bothering about himself, he took the best care of Katrina. He run to Kat on looking her shivering after several takes in rain.

He ordered for two towels, wrapped Kat in towels and himself used one. Then he instructed the air-conditioners to be switched off. He then asked Priyan and choreographer Pony Varma to “please look out for Katrina’’.

Akshay knows very well that if Katrina remains wet for long, she will catch fever the next day. Kat is awestruck with Akki’s lovey-dovey act and heard murmuring “God, he treats me like a baby.’’

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Kat doesn't need short skirts!

Kat doesn't need short skirts!

Guess one can’t take chances with stalkers these days. The Bollywood sweetheart who is currently on a roll — yeah, she has just notched up another successful film — is jubilant.

Dressed in a pair of slim-fitting jeans and a pink tee-shirt, her pretty face devoid of pancake, she smiles, “At least they can’t say my latest film is doing well because Katrina Kaif wore a short skirt. I don’t need to show leg to win notices.’’
The actress
doesn’t take kindly to being called Bollywood’s lucky mascot either.

“Saying I’m just lucky kind of annihilates all the hard work that I have put into my films,’’ she says. “It also derides the capability of my directors. A script makes a film work, a lot of hard work goes into getting the right script, and to just attribute a film’s success to my good-luck is not right.’’

Of course, she’d rather be called a lucky mascot than a jinx, but she says in her four years in Bollywood, she has strived to make things work. Today, she is in a cushy place. Even Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood’s No. 1 actress, concedes that Katrina is hot property, but Katz is definitely not resting on her laurels. “I’m not ruthlessly ambitious. But, there is greed in me to want to do better work. In that sense, I’m exactly like Akshay Kumar. I deeply admire that quality in him. He has done over a 100 films, yet Akshay still has the same hunger in him to strive to do better.’’

Katrina is no longer a girl in a hurry. She has just three films on the floor — De Dana Dan, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and Rajniti. And though she can earn some megabucks really fast, the girl from London with her anglicised Hindi, who began her star trek with the unorthodox Boom, is taking it easy.

Fully aware that the competition — Kareena, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Asin — will eat her alive if she slips, Katz says, “Each successful film motivates me to work harder. For example, in Prakash Jha’s Rajniti I’m the sole girl with power-house performers like Naseeruddin Shah, Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai and Nana Patekar. Arjun Rampal and Ranbir Kapoor, my two other co-stars, are also very good actors and my immediate aim is to raise the bar as far as my performance goes.’’

Admitting that it was important just being a top hero’s arm candy in movies like Welcome, Singh is Kinng, Partner and Race to consolidate her position in Bollywood, she now wants to walk down the path of respected performers. Yeah, Katrina knows the length of her skirt can carry her only this far. If she wishes to go further, which she does, she must stand up and deliver.

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