"A lot of people ask me
why I don't do serious films. I don't enjoy it. I like fun in
cinema. I like romance, I like songs... Initially, when I had
the meeting, I thought that I would go to Prakashji and say it's
not my kind of space.
"I went to meet him in between. He narrated the story
to me and I felt this film has as much excitement as any other
films I was doing. I thought I should give it a try. When I
liked the story, why should I say no?" said Katrina.
"Raajneeti" is not only about politics for power
but also politics within relations, she says.
"He (Jha) has taken a very popular subject. You know it's
not just the raajneeti about what's happening in the Lok
Sabha, it's more about the politics in life.
"It's on the politics in the country, politics within
your own family, between two lovers, between husband and wife.
It's a politics of relationships as well as the politics of
government or something like that," said Katrina.
The emotional sequences in the movie bothered Katrina a lot.
"In the film, I didn't have to get into the political
side of it because when I come into the political arena, there
is nothing much I had to do except deliver my campaigning dialogues
for which I had to understand a kind of body language. That
was a very basic exercise. Prakashji had given me lots of videos
to watch. My memory is very good. I can remember 10 pages of
dialogues; so that's not a worry.
"The things that I had to try, understand and think about
was the emotional scenes in the movie. I think you cannot do
a scene if you have to find a connection to it. If there is
someone very close to me and I like him but that person doesn't
love me, how would I behave in that situation? In those scenes,
I only tried to understand from my own personal experience and
from someone close to me," said Katrina.
Asked if she would have taken "Raajneeti"if it had
come at the beginning of her career, she said: "When I
entered the industry, I didn't have many choices. So I don't
think I would have got the choice. If it had come, I would have
taken it. It has a great cast and great director.
"I think it's more difficult when you have more choices.
I just try to analyse it, and go by instinct. You can sit, you
can plan, you can calculate, see it through a microscope and
you are only going to end up more confused."