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In the West, this was the kind of body-worshipping feminism that the young Madonna embodied in the 90s. With her perfectly sculpted body and her quite carefree display of it, she exudes an oomph that is yet unreachable on account of her being the archetypal 'gori', always somewhat intimidating to the Indian man. She is quite unabashed about playing the sex object, and manages to do it while being a sport about it. This is what makes Katrina so interesting in today's Bollywood. Here is a woman as a complete seductress, swaying on a pole, stripping items of clothing, and managing to look happy about it. Keh de to jog bhulaoon (With the magic of my kajal) Surme de kaale jaadu se (I can make you forget your aceticism) Main to pehan ke saafa kesariya (I'll wear a saffron turban) It mirrors the lyrics of Dhoom 3 in the song 'Kamli' (which means crazy) In Thugs of Hindostan, we don't know much about her except what the song Suraiyya tells us about her quite suggestively: The attire is as fittingly athletic - the skirt is less of a skirt and more a half dhoti in 'Suraiyya' and in 'Manzoor-e-Khuda', a pair of sequinned shorts which would have definitely stopped the East India Company in its tracks in 1795, when Thugs of Hindostan is set. Her freestyle dancing, most obviously on display in the Thugs of Hindostan songs 'Suraiyya' and 'Manzoor-e-Khuda', borrows less from conventional Indian dance forms and more from gymnastics and acrobatics. Katrina is no different, having speed-learnt kathak from Viru Krishnan when she came to Mumbai. Unlike the Madhuri Dixit-Sridevi generation, whose dance styles were rooted in the classical tradition, the younger actors have tended to learn on the job. In Dhoom 3, she is a circus artiste, which makes the best use of her distinctive dance style. Listen to the lyrics of 'Sheila ki Jawani' from the song that cleverly tapped into Katrina's appeal and you will understand why she is the ultimate male fantasy: So, she is Sheila in Tees Maar Khan (in what is meant to be a meta move, she is Anya Khan, starlet, playing Sheila, star), Aaliya in Dhoom 3 and Suraiyya in Thugs of Hindostan. She is such a shorthand for everything that Indian men obsess about that in some films she is not even given a surname.

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(Screenshots)ДЄn irresistible love object, with indefinable 'angrez' accent, very identifiable white skin in a nationВ - obsessed with fairnessВ - and with usually a residential status that is trans-national. Katrina falls into a pattern and goes beyond. In Jab Tak Hai JaanВ (2012), she is a London-based businesswoman, Meera Thapar, who allows street-singer and sometime-soldier Shah Rukh Khan to move up the social chain.ДЄnd in Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017), she is the ultimate outsider, a Pakistani who also happens to be a superspy. They meet in Canada, and of course love ensues. She is an heiress, he a middling, a middle-class automobile engineer. Whenever a male superstar has needed to posh-up, he has relied on the 35-year-old, beginning with Akshay Kumar, who gave her the first break in 2007 after the disastrous Boom, in Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. She is so easy with all the men, and yet seems to move beyond all of them.'ДЄs Indian cinema has turned inward, looking to its own stories and its own homegrown epics, Hindi cinema has used her less, but one look at her filmography and you will agree with him.

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In 2011, when I did a profile on Katrina Kaif for India Today, based on a series of interviews with her and those around her, the ever-insightful Shiv Visvanathan told me: ''She is part of the new Indian epics enacted abroad, from New York to Singh is Kinng, which convey a new sense of the Indian, who is definitely global, urbane, mobile and tactical.

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What you have instead is a movie that has allowed me to contemplate the many virtues of Katrina Kaif.

Having lost the opportunity to fictionalise the story of thug Feringhea and thug-hunter British officer William Sleeman, you would think at least Vijay Krishna Acharya's Thugs of Hindostan would give us a movie that was as exciting as the lives of the bandits.Д«ut no, that is too much to expect from a movie intending to be a Diwali blockbuster - as noisy and as self-consciously spectacular as this one is.