Katrina the most hardworking actress I’ve worked with: Tabu

Actress Tabu feels that her “Fitoor” co-actor Katrina Kaif is the most hardworking actress she has ever worked with and admits to being amazed by Katrina’s involvement in her work. “I must say that Katrina is the most hardworking actress I’ve ever met, I’ve ever seen and worked with. We had only three days of shooting but the involvement with which she worked was amazing,” said Tabu at the trailer launch of their film on Monday.
Fitoor” is based on Charles Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations” and as seen in the trailer, Tabu plays the role of the begum who is the hurdle that her daughter Firdaus (played by Katrina), has to cross to unite and reunite with her love Noor (played by Aditya Roy Kapur).
When Katrina was asked at the press conference about her “fitoor” (madness for something), Abhishek intervened: “She is just passionate about work. If you see her on the sets, you see that she has the maximum ‘fitoor’. The manner in which she works and the dedication with which she listens and works, shows she has a afitoor’ for work.”
On sets, she was always open-minded and she was always willing to push the envelope as far the performance was concerned and personally I’m very happy with the work that she has done in the film,” he added. The film also starring Lara Dutta and Rahul Bhatt among others, is scheduled to release on February 12.
Hardest thing in ‘Fitoor’ was to pretend Tabu is my mother: Katrina Kaif
Actress Katrina Kaif, who will be seen playing Tabu’s daughter in the film “Fitoor”, says the hardest thing for her in the film to pretend that Tabu is her mother. “The hardest thing in this film was pretending that Tabu is my mother; she does not look like my mother from any angle, she is like a friend. I enjoyed the days we spent together in the film,” she said in response to a query about the experience of working with Tabu in “Fitoor”.
“She is one of the warmest people and who is so down to earth. She is a phenomenal actress so, whenever you are in front of her, you should remember you should not get lost in her performance but, to contribute to it. We have been fortunate she was gracious enough to step in,” added Katrina
Tabu stepped into Rekha’s shoes after she decided to make an exit from the film, which is an adaptation of Charles Dickens classic novel “Great Expectations”.
About her role in the film, Katrina said: “For me the most important thing was to try and understand this girl’s (her character) mind… she has always been a complicated character is she manipulative, is she like that? .. for whatever reasons …we spent a lot of time discussing trying to give a life our interpretation to this character.” Also starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Aditi Rao Hydari, Lara Dutta and Rahul Bhatt, “Fitoor” will hit the theaters on February 12.