Bollywood Belles with an Accent

Barbara Mori isn't the only actress in Bollywood who struggles with languages and accents! Just ask Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif! While shooting Lamhaa and Raajneeti, the two B-town belles had to make extra efforts in order to set their tongues straight!

While shooting Kites in Las Vegas, Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori struggled with each other's languages as Hrithik tried to learn Spanish and Barbara did her best to pronounce words in Hindi. It was all part of the movie and their language exchanges became quite cute! But the Kites stars aren't the only ones in Bollywood to work hard on their accents.

Just ask Bipasha Basu! The actress is currently dubbing her new movie Lamhaa in which she plays a Kashmiri girl. So of course she needs to drop her English accent! The movie also stars Sanjay Dutt and Anupam Kher and Bipasha is hard at work getting that accent right! "It is really tough because I don't really understand Urdu. But I'm never one to shun the urge to learn. I think it's great fun. And my director, Rahul Dholakia, is very patient and chilled out," Bips told Hindustan Times.

But fortunately for Bipasha she is not alone. Katrina Kaif, who was not born in India, doesn't speak Hindi fluently but that doesn't stop her from making hit movies! The Raajneeti actress told The Times of India "I'm fully aware that my Hindi has been criticized by a lot of people. But I must say I'm okay with personal criticism, so long as my films work. The Hindi I have spoken in Raajneeti is more correct than all my previous films. I have taken special care to dub my lines carefully. Hindi is not the second language of many actresses who are around at this point. So why single my Hindi out for criticism?"

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May 28, 2010 08.00 PST