Katrina Kaif Says Rajneeti, ZNMD Played A Big Role In Her Career: 'I'd Call Them Moments In My Life'

Even after more than 21 years in Bollywood, Katrina Kaif feels she still has a long way to go and more to achieve. Currently, she’s busy trying to work with her favorite directors. Recently, she got to work with Sriram Raghavan for the first time on their film Merry Christmas, which was released earlier this year. The film, also featuring Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathy, was based on Frédéric Dard’s French novel Le Monte-charge (Bird in a Cage). Speaking to Variety, Katrina expressed her love for the book, praising its tender, poetic, and mysterious qualities, reminiscent of Hitchcock, and its mix of drama, mystery, and murder presented in a unique way.

Praising Raghavan, she said that his characters on screen have a realness and depth to them. “There’s a certain rawness and realness to the characters in his films when you watch them on screen. They’re very flawed, they’re very imperfect, but there’s like a tangible, humane quality about them. They feel very real, like I’ve seen this person or I know this person. He has a certain grip on having something relatable to what he depicts on screen, even though sometimes the situations are so outlandish, but yet the characters are so you can feel you can understand what they’re going through, and you relate to their emotions,” she said.

However, Merry Christmas isn’t the only movie she’s proud of. Katrina Kaif also mentioned a few titles that played a big role in her career. These include Namastey London (2007), Welcome (2007), Singh Is King (2008), New York (2009), Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009), Rajneeti (2010), and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011).

She also said she doesn’t just see them as movies but like top moments in her life. “I wouldn’t call them films, I would call them moments in my life. They were surrounded by an entire emotion, an entire feeling. It wasn’t just playing a character and going home, it seeped into my life at that time, the film would become my entire life. That film, that crew, that moment, that environment would become my whole life. I’d be consumed and then the film would release and there would be a moment of emptiness and loss. And then you would go on to the next one. These are all incredible moments for me as an actor, as a performer,” added Katrina.

Merry Christmas did fairly well at the box office.