Katrina Kaif reveals Malaika was her function mannequin throughout early modelling days: She was one of many ‘women I looked up to’

Katrina Kaif has claimed Malaika Arora was a “role model” throughout her early modelling days in Mumbai. In a brand new interview with Mashable India, Katrina regarded again at her journey. She revealed that she solely needed to be a mannequin when she moved to Mumbai and appearing occurred to her by chance. (Also Read: Merry Christmas trailer: Katrina Kaif, Vijay Sethupath-starrer is a Sriram Raghavan thriller set to a Christmas carol)

What Katrina mentioned

“When I started off as a model in Bombay, my intention was to be a model. My role models were Madhu Sapre and Lakshmi Menon. Those were the supermodels of that time. And even Malaika actually. She was still modelling at that time. They were the women I looked up to. And that’s what I wanted to be as a model,” Katrina mentioned.

Katrina and Malaika go a good distance again

While Katrina and Malaika have by no means labored collectively, they as soon as had a peculiar connection. Katrina was relationship her Tiger 3 co-star Salman Khan when his youthful brother, actor and producer Arbaaz Khan, was married to Malaika. While Katrina later dated actor Ranbir Kapoor earlier than marrying actor Vicky Kaushal in 2021, Malaika divorced Arbaaz in 2017 earlier than she began relationship actor Arjun Kapoor.

Malaika began off in 1997 as a VJ on MTV. She then entered the modelling world and appeared in Bally Sagoo’s memorable 1997 music video of Gur Naalo Ishq Mitha. She made her Bollywood debut with the enduring dance track Chaiyya Chaiyya alongside Shah Rukh Khan in Mani Ratnam’s 1998 romantic movie Dil Se. Malaika went on to do dance songs in films for the subsequent 25 years, proper up until Anirudh Iyer’s An Action Hero final yr, the place she shook a leg with Ayushmann Khurrana on Aap Jaisa Koi. She was additionally seen within the Disney+ Hotstar actuality sequence Moving in with Malaika final yr. She’ll be subsequent seen in a particular look in Arjun Varain Singh’s buddy film Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, releasing on Netflix India this Tuesday on December 26.

Katrina will probably be subsequent seen in Sriram Raghavan’s Merry Christmas.