It’s been a while now since Katrina Kaif has been keeping a low profile. However, with two releases — Fitoor and Jagga Jasoos — scheduled for this year and her first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet this month, Kat is back in the spotlight, and how! In an interview with DC, Kat discusses what’s in store for her at Cannes, with her film projects — and what it’s like working on her third film with real-life beau Ranbir Kapoor. Excerpts from the chat:
On her debut at Cannes
Well the thought of it is exciting… I know it’s going to be fun. I am not stressing too much about it though, because I think you might otherwise lose the whole opportunity in the moment and just feel anxious about it. So, I am just going there to meet
interesting people. Besides, it’s a platform for glamour and fashion and films and I love watching films.
On exploring the city
I don’t think I will get time to do that because we have an extremely packed schedule for L’Oreal. We have an ad film to shoot, we have media and red carpet and I have to come back and finish shooting for Fitoor. So, I don’t have that much time this year.
On her wax statue at Madame Tussauds
It was a really special moment… a moment where you look back and appreciate the hard work you have put in… It was weird seeing myself like that (in wax). It is very hard to explain… I do think they did a good job as I looked at a lot of the statues that were there. I think it’s pretty well done — and I am quite critical.
On her pictures and videos being leaked
I have no problems with pictures and videos being shared. Is it necessary? Do I wish everyone needed to do that? No.
In an ideal world, I feel that when you attend events or are at work or giving interviews where I am present in a professional capacity and you are present in yours — this is how the media and stars should interact. Not when you see someone at the airport when they are sitting alone quietly. There, they are obviously not working, they are having their alone time.
But I know it’s not going to happen. I don’t feel angry or bad… a lot of times, I feel tired. Like when you just want to sit and you don’t want a picture of you half-asleep, all over the Internet or in 10 newspapers. If the age of the Internet hadn’t been the way it is, then you wouldn’t have to think so much before giving a picture to somebody.
At times you are sleeping on a plane or a lounge and people wake you up for a picture and that picture is going to be circulated among various publications, chalo it’s okay, it’s not the end of the world. But sometimes you just have to think twice
before getting your pictures clicked.
On Ranbir’s Bombay Velvet
Bombay Velvet has a very credible world. It’s a very beautiful attempt by Anurag Kashyap. All of them really just make good cinema and make it with passion and go out there and try something completely new. I am looking forward to see Bombay Velvet as well as Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne
Do.
On shooting in Kashmir for Fitoor with Aditya Roy Kapur
I had an amazing time. The area was beautiful and the locals were amazing. We had such great support, and really good food. Gattu (Abhishek Kapoor) is an amazing director to work with. This is also the first time I shot in Kashmir. I have shot in Ladakh before that. When we were there, it was completely snowed in so you couldn’t see beyond five feet. Kashmir is magical. It was very difficult to shoot on snow though — all the cars were slipping and sliding. Fitoor is an adaptation of Great Expectations.
On Jagga Jasoos
I am playing a type of a journalist in the film… We will be done shooting for this in July and in August, I will start shooting for Nitya (Mehra)’s film with Sidharth Malhotra.
On working with Ranbir in Jagga Jasoos
It was really nice. It’s our third film together and we had a great time on the sets. Raajneeti was a film that did really well but was pretty tough to shoot though… so JJ is a very different kind of a film compared to the two previous ones we have done and honestly, there’s still a lot left. We still have three major months of the shoot left so I am looking forward to that.
On Ranbir as a co-star
He is the same as he was when I first worked with him. Just that he has now become a little bit more opinionated. He better not be my biggest critic! He better not have any criticisms! We discuss a lot of cinema, we discuss our opinions — we don’t always agree, but we do talk a lot about movies. There are so many films that we both like.
