Katrina Kaif: Actress with the Midas touch

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A decade ago, it would have been unimaginable for an actress with a pronounced British accent who barely spoke Hindi to make it big in Bollywood.



But that was before Katrina Kaif arrived on the scene.



The 25-year-old has carved a niche for herself in an industry which is usually not very forgiving of upcoming actresses, that too without any connections in Bollywood.



Kaif came to India as a 17-year-old. Born to a Kashmiri father and a British mother, she had lived in the U.S. and the UK, and is known to be very close to her sisters and mother.



She made her debut in Kaizad Gustad's \"Boom\" in 2003, a performance that went unnoticed. It was only when she appeared in \"Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya\" two years later with then boyfriend Salman Khan that Bollywood took note. But the critics still panned her, describing her acting as stunted and her accent a hindrance.



\"There is no place for any negativity in my life,\" says Kaif, when asked about those early days. \"Everyone has a destiny and I got what was written in mine.\"



Industry bigwigs like filmmaker Prakash Jha say it would be wrong to ascribe Kaif's success today to mere destiny.



\"Katrina is where she is today because of only one thing -- her dedication. She drove for three hours to come back to the dubbing studio because she felt she had pronounced a word wrongly. One word. And then she drove back to catch a flight,\" says Jha, who directed Kaif in her latest project \"Rajneeti\".


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