The heartthrob of the youngsters in India is none other than Katerina Kaif. Born in Hong Kong, British citizen Katrina Kaif is one of Bollywood’s most popular actresses. She has appeared in many Hindi and Telugu movies. Katerina began her modeling career at the age of 14 after she was approached by a jewelry campaign agent. Renowned filmmaker Kaizad Gustad discovered this hidden gem while working as a model and cast her in his film Boom, released in 2003. Although Boom did not do well at the box office, it brought Katerina’s sex appeal to the big screen, but Bollywood was not ready. to give her a try because she couldn’t speak Hindi.

Katernia’s first Bollywood success was the 2005 film “Sarkar”, where she played a brief role as Abhishek Bachchan’s lover. Her biggest role was Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, released in 2005, where she was paired with Salman Khan, now her boyfriend. She won the Stardust Award for Best Female Performance.

After this celebrity status, Bollywood directors literally lined up to cast her for big-budget movies. Being a versatile actress, she played a negative character in Abbas Mastan’s action thriller “Race”. She has played many roles with Akshay kumar including his latest blockbuster movie “Singh Is Kinng”.

In 2008, Katrina was also voted ‘Sexiest Asian Woman’ in a poll conducted by Eastern Eye, which pushed last year’s winner Bipasha Basu into second place. Katrina also appeared in the top 10 in 3 different categories in the 2008 India Google Zeitgeist lists, she was the only “person” in the top 10 list as the others are objects or places. Katrina topped the ‘Most Popular Bollywood Celebrity’ category, along with #3 in the ‘Fast Growing Searches’ category and #10 in the ‘Most Popular Searches’ category. The online video site YouTube is literally packed with user-uploaded Katrina videos.

Katernia is also active in philanthropy, Katrina visited Dharavi, a slum in India and played with street children as part of an event organized by Salman Khan’s Being Human foundation.

Katrina has won many critically acclaimed awards, including the 2008 IIFA Award for Best Female Style Icon. Katrina is one of the highest paid actresses in Bollywood and she must feel like Alice in Bollywood wonderland.