Katrina Kaif's unseen and rare images

New Delhi: Here's a look at Bollywood's golden girl Katrina Kaif's cinematic journey. Also check out her rare images. Also see: Katrina Kaif's love affairs| Katrina Kaif's top item numbersThe British born lady ventured into India to make her career in Bollywood. With baby like smile but intelligent more than anybody she had the confidence to make it big in the struggling Industry and she did. Today we recall her with the names like Chikni Chameli and Sheila of Bollywood who can surpass any tinsel town diva in terms of act or dance.Katrina Kaif! The golden lady has turned 30 today and there is no looking back for her after achieving so much in Bollywood.We peek into her cinematic journey so far, which has seen lesser flaws but bigger accomplishments. Her birth tale somewhat resembles her highly acclaimed flick ‘Namaste London', where she played a half Indian and half British daughter to her desi parents but in real life the actress is born to an Indian Kashmiri father and a British mother.Kat started her career with modeling in fashion shows in London, which brought her into focus and gave her first chance to venture into Bollywood though a dud. In Boom she romanced with age old actors like Gulshan Grover and Amitabh Bachchan. The flick was highly criticized but it didn't perturb her adamant motives. The actress tried to stick to the Mayanagiri of Mumbai pursuing her modeling career there and was caught by the eyes of Ram Gopal Verma who roped her in Sarkar. The flick proved hit and she became noticeable.When she starred opposite Salman Khan in Maine Pyar Kyu Kiya, buzz surrounded that the two are hit by the cupid's arrow and it's because of Dabangg Khan that Kat got the offer. The duo too gave an acceptance to their relationship.Thereafter Katrina's career took a flying start with Akshay Kumar. The two starred in ‘Humko Deewana Kar Gaye' which did a moderate business at Box Office. But the very next year they had a commercially hit flick in the name of ‘Namaste London' and there was no looking back for Katrina thereafter.A series of hit flicks by the two followed namely, Singh is King, Welcome, De Dana Dan.In 2009, Katrina starred opposite John Abraham and Neil Nitin Mukesh in New York. The actress was highly acclaimed for her performance in the flick which for the first time ever made her nominee for the best actress at Filmfare Awards. In the same year, she worked with Ranbir Kapoor in Rajkumar Santoshi's comedy drama ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani' and with this, rumours surrounded their relationship as till then she had broken off with Salman Khan.In 2010, the duo again was seen in yet another flick titled ‘Rajneeti', which was again a hit at Box Office. By the end of the year Katrina's first item number ‘Sheila Ki Jawani' in Tees Maar Khan was a chartbuster and it even left behind Malaika Arora's Munni Badnam Hui in terms of popularity.In 2011, Zoya Akhtar's ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' the actress gave a fine performance and for the first time she gave an onscreen kiss which also brought many of her admirers to theatres.Katrina kicked off 2012 with a Lavani number ‘Chikni Chameli' in Agneepath which was a hit. Later in the year she once again shared screen with her ex-boyfirend Salman Khan in Kabir Khan's ‘Ek Tha Tiger' which turned out to be the second highest grosser of Bollywood after Aamir Khan's ‘3 Idiots'. Ek Tha Tiger was mostly in buzz because it was Kat-Salman's first movie post break up.Same year Kat worked with Shahrukh Khan is Yash Chopra's last romantic saga ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan'. Her kiss with SRK in the flick was again the talk of the town.This year the actress will be seen in an action mode with Amir Khan in a highly anticipated flick of the year ‘Dhoom 3' while there is another action drama lined up opposite Hrithik Roshan titled ‘Bang Bang'.For today it's party time for Katrina Kaif as we wish her a very happy Birthday.