Emerging from a much talked-about break-up with a rock-solid attitude, KATRINA KAIF, the reserved star of few words that we’ve heard so much about, is finally ready to talk, finds CHANDNI SEHGAL
Katrina Kaif has been a bit of an urban legend. Famously known to be tight-lipped, her legacy (besides a robust filmography) includes a stream of interviews that attempt to uncover her indecipherable personality but only leave viewers to conclude that she remains something of an enigma.
So at 9pm, when she emerges at her Bandra home in postworkout sweats and declares that she does, in fact, want to start the interview by “talking about her personal life,” it leaves you flummoxed. Why, you ask? Because, Kaif feels, it can be summed up in “one and a half words’’— “it’s non-existent.”
This frank, forthright, funny version of Kaif is disarming. Then again, it has been 15 long years of dodging frenzied paparazzi since the model-turned-ingénue made her debut with Boom (2003), and the Kaif I meet today, slowly feasting on a bowl of comfort food, isn’t bent on evading questions. She’s eager to talk, and eager to be heard—but on her own terms.
WILL AND GRACE
This story is from the December 2018 edition of VOGUE India.
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