Revelling in the success of her recently released 'Bharat', Katrina Kaif believes it is great to be in this phase, but is wary to get too attached to it. In an interview, when asked how she looks at her transformation as an actor who used to be criticised for her roles, to one who can hold her own in the presence of superstars, the actress said, "I have been asked this question so many times during 'Bharat' promotions that I went online and I felt I wanted to check (reviews). At that time in my career, everything moved so fast and there was no digital, so it wasn’t like it was constantly fed back to you. They (the reviews) came in the paper and were gone. I went online and checked reviews of 'Namastey London' and 'New York', and the reviews were very good for me.”
“I started to think why do people have this perception that positive reviews have only started to come now. I have come to a reasonable understanding that while I got good reviews for 'Raajneeti', 'New York', 'Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara', there were a few films in the middle, about three years ago, that didn’t do well. We remember just that phase because it is more recent. That’s what it’s like in the film industry. You really have to continuously deliver,” Katrina added.
She further said that both the hits and the misses stick for a while and an artiste just has to get habitual to the nature of Bollywood. "Because when you do have the low phases, which will come for everyone, when you have the misses, those stick for a while. Then when something starts working, that sticks for a while too! You have the best of both worlds," Kat said.
“When you are in that phase, you need to have tough skin, have to introspect, see what can be bettered and what’s going amiss. When you are having a great phase, you have to think what I have done here without getting too attached to the result. Praise makes you feel good, criticism pinches.”
