Katrina wasn't a Kaif Originally - Ayesha Shroff

knoughtyd

Ayesha Shroff,wife of Actor Jackie Shroff who had discovered Katrina Kaif in her "Movie BOOM" talks about Katrina in an interview to Mumbai mirror

• You discovered Katrina Kaif. Is she still in touch with you?

Not really. We met at a party once and just greeted each other.

• Did you change her surname?

She had an English surname, which was not easy to pronounce. She is not Katrina Kaif originally. She is Katrina Turquotte. We wanted to give her a surname which would be accepted by the Indian audience. First we thought of naming her Katrina Kazi, but then we thought Kazi would have a religious overtone. So we thought of Kaif.

• But it is said that she has a Kashmiri father ?

If that's what she says, you have to believe her. Her name on her passport that time was Katrina Turquotte.

Agnel

Who cares what her last name was, Katy is all we care about

xXx

Katty is

good enuff for me

Dogbert

Katy..

patch01

how is this a shock, every man and his dog knows that her mother was english and that double k herself was born in hong kong....

insofar as the name Kaif is concerned, what more normal a process for a celebrity than to use a stage name and reserve their actual name, in this instance Turquotte, for private occasions....

One of my fave celebs Karen Mok, did the same thing, born Karen Joy Morris, she employed her grandmothers family name, Mok, onstage, in order to win over the very parochial Hong Kong audiences....