Katrina Kaif ’s Story in Her Own Words

Five years ago, a teenager
landed in Mumbai to make a
career in showbiz. Today,
Katrina Kaif has becoming one
of the most successful
actresses in the film industry. In its latest issue, People
magazine got up close and
personal with the beautiful
actress to know more. We
present an excerpt: It was five years ago that
Katrina Kaif, then 19, arrived
in Mumbai to make a career in
the modelling industry.
Accompanying her were
mother Susana and sisters Christine and Isabella. She did
not celebrate her birthday
that year. This year as she
turned 24 on July 16, almost
the entire film industry A-list
descended at Olive Bar & Kitchen, a Mumbai restaurant
and bar, to wish the model-
turned-actress. “I was all alone on my first birthday in Mumbai. I hardly
stepped out of my house, as I
didn’t know anyone then, ” says the actress. This year it
was celebrated, according to a
guest, with flavoured
Martinis, an assortment of
mocktails, lamb chop, balsamic
mushroom, grilled prawns and rock salt fish doing the
rounds. Katrina had over 70 people
including stars, star wives,
star kids, filmmakers,
producers, designers and
choreographers attending her
private bash. Not surprisingly Katrina says it is only this
year that she feels a sense of
belonging to the industry.
That she speaks Hindi and has
a string of box-office hits can
only add to her being at home. “I know so many people now. I ’m a part of the circuit and also part of discussions for
movies that are being
planned. I’m aware of what ’s happening around,” she says. A large part of the credit in
making Katrina feel
comfortable in the film
fraternity goes to beau
Salman Khan, who is dating
the model-turned-actress for a little over four years now. Because of Salman, she got
to work with the right
people ’ It was former supermodel
and choreographer Alison
Kanuga, who got Katrina
introduced to Salman at his
sister Alvira ’s birthday party at Salman ’s apartment. “She met Salman for the very first time at Alvira ’s birthday party. Since Katrina and I
were already friends I asked
her to come along with me to
the party, ” says Alison, who met Katrina at a film screening
in Mumbai. Salman, who was then
distraught after parting ways
with Aishwarya Rai, took an
instant liking to her and the
duo ended up spending the
entire evening together. That chance meeting led to another
and in a matter of few days
Salman was wooing Katrina.
Soon they were in a serious
relationship. Whenever she got off work
early, Katrina rushed to meet
her boyfriend at film studios
and his apartment. They
started hanging out at coffee
shops in Bandra, and going for long walks with Salman ’s pet dogs Myson and Myjaan along
the Bandstand promenade.
But what she enjoyed the
most was taking bike rides
with her boyfriend in the wee
hours of the morning. As their love became stronger, Salman
started supervising her, while
she was readying to move
from modelling to films. “By then she was already a popular name in the modelling
circuit. She thought that
making a progression to films
will be a good idea, ” says an industry insider. It was only under Salman ’s guidance that she clinched a
big role opposite him in
brother Sohail Khan ’s production, Maine Pyaar Kyun
Kiya in 2005. The film made
good business at the box
office and her chemistry with
Salman prompted other
filmmakers to woo her with film scripts. Director David Dhawan, who
was looking for a fresh face
for MPKK, signed her on
instantly once he met her. He
says, “Yes, I met her through Salman. She had a fresh face
and she suited the role. [Also]
She has a great memory. Even
though she wasn ’t well versed in the language, she
used to mug her lines very
well. ” Filmmaker and president of
AMPTPP (Association of
Motion Pictures and TV
Program Producers), Pahlaj
Nihalani, who met Katrina
when she was running from pillar to post to get her visa
extended, attributes UK-
citizen Katrina ’s stupendous success to Salman Khan and his
family. He says, “Because of Salman she got to work with the
right people and in the right
manner… I will give full credit to Salman and his family for
providing her with shelter,
professional advice and
guidance.” With her family away in
London, she started confiding
in and socialising with
Salman’s family members. “They are a part of the social circle that I move in. They are
tremendously wonderful
people,” says Katrina, who is particularly fond of her beau ’s siblings Alvira Khan Agnihotri
and Sohail Khan. ‘I didn ’t know anyone except for Amitji ’ For Katrina, who was born in
Hong Kong, raised in Hawaii
and London, the Indian film
industry never really existed
until she got here. “I didn’t know anyone except for Amitji [Amitabh
Bachchan]. He had a statue at
Madame Tussauds. If someone
was introduced to me as very
successful, I gave them the
appropriate respect, ” says Katrina, who watched her
first Hindi film at the age of
19. It was her urge to embrace
the work ethics of a film
industry in a distant country
that made filmmakers take
notice of her. She made a
forgettable debut in 2003 with Kaizad Gustad ’s Boom; the movie tanked at the box
office, but people wanted to
see more of the leggy lass.
Jackie Shroff, her first co-star
(in Boom), knew that she was
destined to be a popular star. “On the first day of the shoot, she was lost and lonely. But
once we started shooting she
was all ears to the director.
During the schedule, I realised
that she was disciplined and
focused, ” he says. On the other hand, Katrina
was overwhelmed by the
warmth of her co-stars, who
looked after her. “I was so shocked by the warmth of
the city and the people, ” says Katrina, who found friends in
supermodel Madhu Sapre and
designer and stylist Anna
Singh on the sets of the film. Anna says, “I guided her as much as I could. On the sets of
Boom, I used to feed her and
make her familiar with names
of actors and directors. By the
end of the film, she had put on
a good three to four kilos. ” Realising that Indo-English
films like Boom only catered
to a niche audience, she
started taking interest in
mainstream Hindi films. She
started learning Hindi with the help of a tutor. “I first learnt how to read the language and once I got a
grasp of it, I could read scripts
in Hindi. It took me about
two-and-a-half years to
improve on the reading, ” says the actress, who can
comfortably communicate
with her staff in Hindi. ‘I used to cry buckets of tears ’ Katrina ’s big moment came with her pairing with Akshay
Kumar in Humko Deewana
Kar Gaye (2006). It gave her
career the required impetus. Vipul Shah, who took notice
of her in a Samsung
commercial was hell-bent on
having her opposite Akshay
for Namastey London, which
went on to become one of the biggest hits of last year. The producer of Singh is
Kinng, another Akshay-
Katrina starrer, says, “She is extremely professional and
her perfectionist streak has
led her to taste success so
early in her career. ” While she kept signing one
film after the other, her
personal life took a back seat.
Salman and she had their share
of misunderstandings.
Increasing outdoor schedules only added to the stress. “I used to call my mum everyday, and she was in
London then. I can ’t tell you what it was about. But at
times it used to be like the end
of the world. I used to cry
buckets of tears, ” says Katrina, who feels that she is
no longer as sensitive and
emotional as she used to be. But reticent she continues to
be. She won ’t comment on Salman’s former love, Aishwarya Rai and despite
going strong with Salman for
almost four years, she has
never publicly admitted to the
relationship. “I don’t [talk about my relationship] because Salman
wouldn ’t do it. Ask Salman a question about me and he
wouldn ’t answer. ” She doesn’t deny the hiccups in her relationship, as reported
by the tabloids, when she
says: “I’m sure I have been taken for granted but no one
is to be blamed for that
except for myself. If you
cannot give yourself that
respect then how can other
people give you that respect ?” ‘I feel more confident today since I have
achieved something ’ Her answers do not divulge
much, but between the lines
there is a lot. She says, “What I have found [from my
experience] is that you can
forgive someone for doing
something like that [wrong].
You can honestly feel that
you have forgiven them but later on in life, those things
will eat away [the
relationship]. ” The actress didn ’t sleep all night after Salman and Shah
Rukh ’s spat at her birthday party this year. A friend of
the actress says, “She is recovering from it. She is
trying her best to behave
normally. ” Talking about the episode
Katrina says: “You cannot have control on everything in
life. Things happen …” Will she have a similar bash
next year? “I don’t know. I think I will, ” says the actress, who received a diamond
bracelet from Salman on her
birthday. She continues to
work on her relationship and
tries to spend as much time as
she can with Salman. Recently, she was in a hurry
to finish a shoot so that she
could watch an episode of 10
Ka Dum featuring Govinda and
David Dhawan with Salman.
The two cuddled up while watching the episode at
Salman’s house, and later cracked jokes while having
dinner, say sources. “She has a whacky sense of humour. There are certain
jokes that only the two of us
can appreciate, ” says her close friend Arjun Kapoor.
However, the couple is not
working together in too
many films. “It’s the best thing and we are doing what
is best for everyone right
now, ” says Katrina, currently taping for Subhash Ghai ’s Yuvraaj with Salman. “I feel more confident today since I have achieved
something, ” says Katrina. Even as rumours of her
alleged closeness to Akshay
Kumar continue, she lays it all
at fate ’s door. “Yes, all our films have done well, and they have [mostly]
released in the last one-and-a-
half years. But that ’s destiny, not in my hands or Salman ’s hands or Akshay ’s hands.” And sure there rings some
truth about the hand of fate
for an anonymous and
aspiring model, who in five
years has moved to becoming
the most successful Hindi film heroine of 2008

>Free Internet with Teletalk

Hello friend! You can use unlimited internet at 30taka for 3days. This offer is available only for Bangladeshi in Bangladesh. If you wanna to
use this package, you will be have a teletalk connection. You can use this package only one
time in a month. It's available for 3days at the last 3days of a month. So, if the month is of 31days, send a SMS at 29th date or if the month is of 30days, send a SMS at 28th date. Type in your text message- unl and send to 111 But you have to have 32tk in your account. 30tk will be cut from your account after 24hours sending your SMS.
After cutting your balance unlimited internet will be actived. You must configure in your internet setting teletalk
unlimited configuration after activation. For the configuration please visit "Teletalk GPRS" in my site. Enjoy this offer at 30tk only...only for 01552 and 01558 this serial sim

Mу Gцaґdїaи Aиgёl

You hold my hand when I am
weak,
And vulnerable at times.
And as you smile I cannot help
But turn my lips upward,
And duplicate the joy Which lays spread across your
face.
When I am sad or unsure,
You make me laugh.
And as you look into my eyes,
They seem to glitter and sparkle
With such energy and life
That I have never seen before.
And it makes me want to be
closer to you
All the time. And even when I am happy
and content,
You are there for me.
Just in case I should happen to
tumble or fall.
And as you laugh your sound carries across the room,
And it makes me want to be a
better person.
As we go along together,
I realize how lucky I am
To be sharing my life with someone as special as you.
You are my everything;
My comfort, my weakness,
my joy.
And I thank God everyday
For sending someone like you To care and comfort me in
times of need,
And to be my guardian angel.
For this I thank you,
And hope you will stay in my
heart Forever.

free Internet with Grameen phone

Easy way to use Internet free with Grameen phone.. Use Internet with GP by only 23.0BDT that is approximately 26.0BDT (with sms charge & other charge) for 3 day unlimited use. It is very easy to use,But you need a Symbian (N-Series) handset to active it.You can take this Service only one time in a GP sim within 30 days. To active this service write BACKUP and send to 6000.Within a few seccond you will get a message from +6000 The message is like this : Thank you for your interest in Grameen Phone Mobile Backup Service.To proceed with the registration process please click on http:// mb.grameenphone.com/ mobilebackup/ ... Using GP WAP connection.If your handseat do not support EDGE then send REG to 6000 to subscribe for sms based backup service only. You will found a web link on that page click on the link.. N.B. Your web browser settings must be "GP WAP" By clibking that link you will get a wap page. There is 2 option on that page. -Accept & -Decline But you have to choose 'see terms and condition befor Accept Then click "Accept" In next page,you have to give a password,You can use D8pppppp or C8pppppp or B8pppppp.Give the password for two times. Then click the 'Submit'batton,But remember that,after clicking 'Submit' when you will got a new page,You must exit the browser within 1 second. If you failed to do that,The free internet won't active.After successfull activation,you will
get a message from +6000 like that : Congratulations ! Your Grameenphone Mobile Backup Service has been activated.you will be charged BDT 23.0 ...
..(BDT 20 + 15% VAT) per month
for using Mobile Backup.You can access your web account by visiting http:// webserv.grameenphone.com/ mobileba... your User Id is 88017XXXXXXXX and password is ********. And/or another message is like that : Dear Subcriber,your 3 day free EDGE session is activated due to successful registration with Mobile Backup Service.For details please call 121.GP But if you failed,then you will get a message like that : We are sorry to infrom you that your Mobile Back up account could not be activated.Please try again by sending BACK UP to 6000 or call 121 for help. After using 3 days unlimited free Internet browsing,you have to unsubscribe from the Backup Service to use free internet again after 30 days in same SIM. To unsubscribe,write UNSUB and send to 6000.

free.hack.gpinternet

Friend u can connect to ur pc
absolotly fully and truth with
gpinternet.just do the
following:
control panel,modem
option,click on modem tab,plug ur modem or data cable or...
Click ur modem and click
properties.click advanced tab
and write AT+CGDCONT = 2, "IP",
"gpinternet"
and all the thing will be same like dial up number:*99# and
dns1:202.56.4.120 dns2 or
alternat dns:202.56.4.121 then
connect... Nd use absoulately free internet

Egypt's military tomove on cabinet,march expected

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's new military rulers were
expected to unveil a new
cabinet on Tuesday with pro-
democracy protesters
planning a march to pressure
the generals to purge the old guard of deposed president
Hosni Mubarak. Leaks of the reshuffle to state
media showing key ministers,
such as foreign, finance and
interior, unchanged were
greeted with a sour reaction
by reformists who want a fresh cabinet with technocrats
to run the Arab world's most
populous nation. As the military struggled to
organize a handover to power
with free and fair elections in
six months after the downfall
of Mubarak, its neighbor Libya
was engulfed by a fierce crackdown on a mounting
revolt to the 41-year rule of
Muammar Gadaffi. EU foreign policy chief
Catherine Ashton was in Cairo
on Tuesday to offer
international aid to help the
Supreme Council of the Armed
Forces to get the country back to work and to secure a
peaceful, swift and orderly
transition of power. "I am certainly looking at
ways for us to offer support,"
Ashton told reporters, after a
visit by British Prime Minister
David Cameron and U.S.
officials, offering help to the rulers of this key American
ally that has a peace treaty
with Israel. The Islamist Muslim
Brotherhood, Egypt's most
powerful political
organization which has a
growing influence in the post-
Mubarak era, said it was not offered a portfolio. Others
referred to in leaks of a
reshuffle defended their
appointments. BROTHERHOOD, OTHERS WANT
PURGE Others involved in the
movement that toppled
Mubarak's 30-year rule with
an 18-day uprising signaled
their displeasure at the plans
by the council, led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein
Tantawi, who has been
defense minister for two
decades. Millions turned out for Egypt's
uprising, centered around
Cairo's Tahrir Square, to
protest about corruption,
repression and poverty,
whipping up a revolution that toppled Mubarak, a former air
force commander who took
over after Anwar Sadat was
assassinated in 1981. The military dissolved
parliament, suspended the
constitution and promised
presidential and parliamentary
elections in six months but
reformists are urging wider reforms and the lifting of
emergency law imposed after
Sadat's killing. A group of youths called the
People's National Movement
for Change will stage a march
from Talaat Harb Square to
Tahrir Square at 2 p.m. on
Tuesday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister
Ahmed Shafiq's interim
government. The protesters said they
would give the cabinet until
Wednesday to resign and will
call for a big sit-in in Tahrir on
Thursday and a march on
Friday. "We will march in protest to
demand the resignation of
Shafiq's government and
abolishing emergency law and
the trial of Mubarak and his
family," the movement's Mohamed Fahmy said, adding
the group also demanded
setting a new minimum
wage. The military, facing protests
over wages and conditions
that sprang out of the nation's
new found post-Mubarak
freedom, has effectively
banned strikes and industrial action to get the nation back
on its feet and to restart the
damaged economy

Gaddafi defies revoltwith tanks asrefugees flee

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya's Muammar Gaddafi used tanks,
helicopters and warplanes to
fight a growing revolt,
witnesses said on Tuesday, as
the veteran leader scoffed at
reports he was fleeing after four decades in power. The U.N. refugee agency urged
to Libya's neighbors not to
turn back those fleeing the
violence, as hundreds of
refugees streamed into Egypt
on tractors and trucks, describing a wave of killing
and banditry unleashed by the
revolt. In the eastern town of Al
Bayda, resident Marai Al
Mahry told Reuters by
telephone that 26 people
including his brother Ahmed
had been shot dead overnight by Gaddafi loyalists. "They shoot you just for
walking on the street," he
said, sobbing uncontrollably as
he appealed for help. Protesters were attacked
with tanks and warplanes, he
said. "The only thing we can do
now is not give up, no
surrender, no going back. We
will die anyways, whether
we like it or not. It is clear
that they don't care whether we live or not. This is
genocide," said Mahry, 42. In Tripoli, residents told
Reuters there was no visible
security force presence on the
streets. The only police
present were directing traffic,
they said, the day after reports that warplanes had
bombed portions of the
capital and mercenaries had
shot civilians. Refugees fleeing into Egypt
told of a wave of violence and
crime. "Five people died on the street
where I live," Mohamed
Jalaly, 40, told Reuters at
Salum on his way to Cairo
from Benghazi. "You leave
Benghazi and then you have ... nothing but gangs and youths
with weapons," he added.
"The way from Benghazi is
extremely dangerous," he
said. Libyan guards have
withdrawn from their side of
the border and Egypt's new
military rulers -- who took
power following the
overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak on February11 -- said
the main crossing would be
kept open round-the-clock to
allow the sick and wounded
to enter. Libyan security forces have
cracked down fiercely on
demonstrators across the
country, with fighting
spreading to Tripoli after
erupting in Libya's oil- producing east last week, in a
reaction to decades of
repression and following
uprisings that have toppled
leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. Human Rights Watch says at
least 233 people have been
killed and opposition groups
put the figure much higher
but independent verification is
impossible. The revolt in OPEC member
Libya has driven oil prices to a
2 1/2 year high above $108 a
barrel. As the fighting has intensified
some supporters have
abandoned Gaddafi. Tripoli's
envoy to India, Ali al-Essawi,
resigned and told Reuters that
African mercenaries had been recruited to help put down
protests. "The fall of Gaddafi is the
imperative of the people in
streets," he said. The justice
minister also quit and a group
of army officers urged
soldiers to "join the people." Two pilots flew their
warplanes to nearby Malta. DEFIANCE AND
CONDEMNATION Gaddafi's son Saif on Sunday
vowed his father would keep
fighting "until the last man
standing" and the Libyan
leader appeared on television
after days of seclusion to dismiss reports he had fled to
the Venezuela of his ally Hugo
Chavez. "I want to show that I'm in
Tripoli and not in Venezuela.
Do not believe the channels
belonging to stray dogs," said
Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya
with a mixture of populism and tight control since taking
power in a military coup in
1969. World powers have
condemned the use of force
against protesters, U.N.
Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon accusing Libya of firing
on civilians from warplanes and helicopters. The Security
Council was to discuss Libya at
9 a.m. EST. Washington and Europe have
demanded an end to the
violence and Germany's
Foreign Minister Guido
Westerwelle said: "A ruling
family, threatening its people with civil war, has reached
the end of the line." Demonstrations spread to
Tripoli from the second city
Benghazi, cradle of the revolt
that has engulfed a number of
towns and which residents
say is now in the hands of protestors. Residents said anxious
shoppers were queuing
outside stores to try to stock
up on food and drink. Some
shops were closed. In Tripoli, one resident said
locals were patrolling their
neighborhood at night to
protect it from roaming
mercenaries, reporting sniper
fire and the use of military transport helicopters to ferry
security forces about. "Gaddafi obviously does not
have any limits. We knew he
was crazy, but it's still a
terrible shock to see him
turning mercenaries on his
own people and just mowing down unarmed
demonstrators," he told Lisa
Goldman, a Canadian-Israeli
journalist based in Tel Aviv.