After being in the industry for more than half a decade, a dozen odd hits behind her and finding herself firmly placed in the Top-3 bracket when it comes to the leading ladies at Bollywood, Katrina Kaif is doing the unthinkable. She is all set to play the role of an item girl in her next film with Akshay Kumar - TEES MAAR KHAN.Confirms producer Shirish Kunder, who has also written the film, "Yes, Katrina is playing a wannabe item girl in TEES MAAR KHAN. Beyond that I can't reveal much about her character at this stage."
This is for the first time in her career that Katrina Kaif would be enacting the character of an item girl. She has played a supermodel (BOOM), a rich heiress (DE DANA DAN), a girl next door (AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI), a married woman with a kid (NEW YORK) or a scheming seductress (RACE) in her films before TEES MAAR KHAN but never before has she got into the shoes of an item girl.
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In fact for the makers as well there was quite some deliberation around the leading lady for TEES MAAR KHAN before Katrina Kaif was signed on. Now that she is on board, one wonders whether her British background would be coming in handy and she would be playing one of those NRIs from Southall who wish to make it big in Bollywood.
"No no, nothing like that", vehemently denies Shirish, "There isn't any Southall connection to Katrina's character in the film. Instead she came in primarily due to her overall appearance which just fitted in perfectly with the requirement of the character. We were looking for somebody like her and ultimately settled for her only."
Though the likes of Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra have played fashion models in the past, getting into the garb of an item girl isn't something that many have dared to do in the past. This is why for Katrina, it won't just be challenging but also seemingly a lot of fun as she would be the first amongst her contemporaries to take a step in this direction.
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