Katrina Kaif who started her career with Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar is seen with younger actors
Katrina Kaif seems to be struggling with a mid-career crisis. While she started her career with Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan, she quickly scaled down her co-stars’ age with Ranbir Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra and even Aditya Roy Kapoor. And now it seems she is slipping down to another generation. In a proposed film for Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, Katrina will be seen with Ishaan Khattar (who made his debut with Jahanvi Kapoor in Dhadak two years ago) and Siddhanth Chaturvedi (who gained fame as MC Sher in Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy. Both these actors are her junior by at least ten years.
Ishaan who made his debut with Majid Majidi’s Beyond The Clouds in 2017 is Katrina’s contemporary Shahid Kapoor’s younger brother. So unless she’s playing an older woman Katrina would have to work hard to look compatible with her juniors. Katrina, in fact, is one of the few actresses who have done a balancing act with their roles. She works simultaneously with older actors like Salman Khan (with who she was seen in Bharat) and Shah Rukh Khan (Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Zero) while also working with Sidharth Malhotra (Baar Baar Dekho).
It isn’t unusual for established actresses to work with younger co-stars. Mala Sinha and Nanda co-starred with Sanjay Khan and Shashi Kapoor, respectively. Waheeda Rehman worked with Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, both her juniors .More recently Kareena Kapoor co-starred with Imran Khan in two films.
And why not! This is a time when actors are routinely called out for acting with girls young enough to be their daughter. Salman Khan was called out for starring opposite a very young Sai Manjrekar in the disastrous Dabanng 3. Similarly, Akshay Kumar routinely stars with young actresses like Parineeti Chopra (Kesari) and Kriti Sanon (Housefull 4). Even Shah Rukh Khan has left his contemporaries like Preity Zinta and Juhi Chawla behind and is seen with actresses like Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif.
If Katrina is seen to reverse the trend, then more power to her!
