Katrina Kaif unveils her wax statue at Madam Tussauds
Katrina went head to head with competitors Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone to lead the polls.
LONDON (Web Desk) - Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif became the latest Indian celebrity to become part of Madame Tussauds in London.
Katrina unveiled her wax statue and joined the new Bollywood setting as part of the popular wax-work museum s 15 years of Bollywood celebration.
After coming face-to-face with her wax model, Kaif said, "This is amazing it does look really like me."
Katrina went head to head with competitors Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone to lead the polls conducted by Madame Tussauds website and Panjab Radio last year.
More than 225,000 votes were cast during the poll.
The 31-year-old British-Indian actress has become the seventh Bollywood actor to be honoured with a figure at Madame Tussauds London and joins Amitabh Bachchan (2000), Aishwarya Rai (2004), Shah Rukh Khan (2007), Salman Khan (2008), Hrithik Roshan (2011) and Madhuri Dixit-Nene (2012).
"Katrina collaborated closely with the Madame Tussauds artistic team to ensure total accuracy and is delighted with the figure, which is portrayed in a dancing pose wearing a beautiful sequined white, silver and gold, two piece outfit," a museum spokesperson said.
The statue was created by a team of 20 sculptors and artists over a four-month period, using hundreds of precise measurements taken at a sitting in Mumbai and cost 150,000 pounds.
Madame Tussauds Studios London has been making wax figures for over 150 years with each masterpiece taking up to four months and a team of 20 dedicated sculptors to create.
Over 500 precise body measurements are referenced, real head hairs are inserted one by one, and countless layers of paints and tints are applied to build up skin tones to achieve a kind of astonishing realism that visitors flock to see from around the world.
The Bollywood factor has proved extremely lucrative, with Indian holidaymakers and NRIs forming a large chunk of the visitor numbers at one of London s most popular tourist spots.
