10 unknown interesting facts about Katrina Kaif

What can be more unknown about Katrina Kaif whose personal life has today become nothing more than a media circus? The actress, who at the start of her career was highly criticized for her lack lustre acting talent and her inability to speak in Hindi, is today one of the highest paid leading ladies of tinsel town. With her last film Dhoom 3 becoming the highest grossing blockbuster of all times, Katrina is on a different plane today. We profile a few little known facts about this Bollywood diva. 1. Katrina was born as Katrina Turquotte. She changed her surname to Kaif (her father’s surname) when she moved to India because Kaif sounded Indian as compared to Turquotte. 2. Katrina is a British citizen and her name on her passport is Katrina Turquotte. 3. Her father Mohammed Kaif is a successful businessman settled in USA. He has reportedly not stayed in touch with Katrina after splitting from her mom. 4. Katrina was born in Hongkong and as a child have travelled across China, France, Switzerland, Poland, Japan, Belgium, Poland and other European countries with her mother, Sussanne Turquotte who was a charity worker. She finally settled down in London which was her mother’s birthplace but moved to India within three years. 5. She started her modeling career in Hawaii at the tender age of 14. 6. It is believed that Katrina Kaif was spotted by producer Mukesh Bhatt at Taj Lands End coffee shop. He reportedly found her electrifying and cast her in his movie Saaya opposite John Abraham. She was dropped after two days of shooting because she couldn’t understand a single word of Hindi. 7. Katrina has learnt dancing from renowned Kathak guru Viru Krishna. 8. Katrina is known to be an extremely hard working actress and in her debut movie Boom, she reportedly wanted her love-making scene with Gulshan Grover to be better than that of Amitabh Bachchan and Padma Lakshmi. 9. Katrina is known for her punctuality and often arrives on sets at least 15 minutes prior to her shoot. 10. According to director Kabir Khan, Katrina along with her dialogues can also easily remember her co-actor’s lines as well. Well, this is our list. Did we miss anything? Feel free to share more facts about Katirina or any of your favourite stars at editor@tellychakkar.com and we will share it with the world. And you will also get credited for the same (Yeah! Yeah!). So get those detective glasses on and go researching about stars and get featured on Tellychakkar.com.