Katrina Kaif’s Hindi Hiccups

Katrina Kaif is making all the right noises in the film industry. Akshay Kumar, who starts with her in Raj Kanwar’s “Humko Deewana Kar Gaye”, thinks she’s shaping up to be a “major heroine”.

But Katrina’s relatively small walk-on part in Ram Gopal Varma’s “Sarkar” and her full-fledged part in David Dhawan’s “Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya” have one thing in common - she did not speak her own lines in both films.

Reason! Apparently Katrina’s Hindi is a bit on the weaker side.

Even Bipasha Basu’s first two performances in Ajnabee and Raaz were dubbed. The voice of Lisa Ray was also dubbed by Divya Dutta in Kasoor.

In fact, Varma had originally decided to retain Katrina’s ultra-anglicized voice in keeping with her US-returned character in “Sarkar”. But the Hindi spoken by the actress was way too outlandish to pass off as a non-resident Indian accent.