Katz is ready for a fling

Katrina Kaif wants knife-throwing tips from Hema Malini for the remake of Seeta Aur Geeta

To get under the skin of her character in Dibakar Banerjee’s Seeta aur Geeta, Kat wants to get tips from Hema Malini on the techniques of hurling knives at her co-stars in the remake.

In the original the veteran actress had played a knife-throwing gypsy street performer.

She tells us, “Hemaji seems to have so much fun playing Geeta! I want to do all the daring stuff she did, including climbing the ceiling-fan in the police station. But what I’m especially fascinated by are the knives.”

When told that Kat wants tips for throwing knives, Hema sportingly tells us, “Sure, why not? I think Katrina would make a wonderful Geeta in Seeta Aur Geeta.

But let me warn her it wasn’t easy for me to do all the stunts and running around. To play Geeta I needed very high energy levels.

As for the knife-throwing scenes they were made somewhat easy because I had played a knife-throwing gypsy girl in my very first Hindi film, Sapnon Ka Saudagar.

It was great fun and I’m sure Katrina would have fun doing the role.”

The part of ‘Geeta’ requires Katrina to play a knife-throwing gypsy street-performer, a street-side entertainment that was popular 20 years ago. Sadly the genre barely exists today.

Since, Katrina intends to aim real knives at her partners for the street-side entertainment sequences, the hunt is on for real gypsies, who roam the streets in pairs, like Dharmendra and Hema Malini played in the original Seeta Aur Geeta.

Given how Hema and Dharmendra turned out, it might help if the other gypsy is Ranbir.