Katrina Kaif's wax statue unveiled in London's Madame Tussauds Museum

PUBLISHED DATE : 30/Mar/2015

Katrina Kaif's wax statue unveiled in London's Madame Tussauds Museum

Katrina Kaif's wax statue unveiled in London's Madame Tussauds Museum


 

Katrina Kaif became the latest Indian celebrity to join the line-up at Madame Tussauds in London. Katrina unveiled her wax statue on March 27 in a grand ceremony. There were dancers and music during the launch of the wax statue. Katrina was joined by her sisters and brother during the unveiling of the statue in London

 

After coming face-to-face with her wax model, Kaif said, "This is amazing it does look really like me." 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).

 

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Katrina's figure 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 to create.


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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.


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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.

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