Katrina
The actress gets candid about ex Salman Khan, beau Ranbir Kapoor and holds forth on screen chemistry
Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; August 25, 2015)

Katrina Kaif’s Phantom releases this week and the actress is on a promotional spree. This is her first release of 2015 and she is paired with Saif Ali Khan for the first time. Her next film is with beau Ranbir Kapoor. Here, the actress talks about successsful pairs on screen, ex-boyfriend Salman Khan, and why she hopes Deepika’s film does great business in the box-office (Hint: Ranbir is the leading man of the film).

Being voyeuristic
“In Ek Tha Tiger, there was so much hype and hullabaloo about my equation with Salman. I think we are a little voyeuristic, by nature. We imagine something and we think, ‘Oh, Salman and Katrina were ex-friends and ex-lovers. Now they are working together in Ek Tha Tiger.’ We do talk like that. Tomorrow, if Salman and I announce a film, I am being presumptuous enough to say that there will again be… (pauses) interests in it. For YJHD, the same happened with Ranbir and Deepika and there was huge hype and interests, again.”

Like me, like my movie
Kat feels it’s not just the chemistry between the lead stars that can drive a film to success. “That’s not the basis of which films actually run. People come in, they want to see a nice film. Salim (Khan) uncle once told me, “If the film is appreciated and people have liked the film, it means everyone’s performances in the film was appreciated.” It cannot be that you liked a film of mine and I was terrible,” she points out.

Flops are painful!
Having spoken her heart out on Ranbir-Deepika’s chemistry, she wishes the Tamasha team success. “Do I hope Tamasha will be a good film? I hope and pray that it is a great film. Because Ranbir deserves everything that he wants and he desires. As an actor, it might be painful when your films don’t work. But I am sure he’ll be amazing in Tamasha like he always is.”