Celebrity Gossip

It wouldn't be incorrect to say the Kat's out of the bag finally as on Thursday Katrina Kaif, apparently for the first time without any 'conditions applied', mouthed the words, “Yes, I am single”.

Unsurprisingly, while the Bollywood beauty was at a press conference upon being made the brand ambassador of the flag carrier airline of Abu Dhabi, UAE, some reporter pitted the 'Are you single?' question at her.

She seemed to go into her customary diplomatics for a while when she said things like, “Until the time you are married I think you're single, ” but finally yielded to the scribes' pickings and said “At the moment, to answer your question, yes I am single.”

Without revealing too much though, she said, “If you commit to something you must stand by it. But if you have committed to something and situations change, well then maybe the commitments also change.”

The 26-year-old actress has been speculatively paired with Bollywood hunk Salman Khan for quite some time but the duo almost never acknowledged their relationship publicly.

After reaching a deadend with her career in Bollywood (her one and only hit was Pyar Ke Side Effects, not counting the cameo with Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor in No Entry) and with her purported global re-re-re- launch in Hisss showing no sign of release (the date has now gone from August to November) Mallika has signed on the dotted line for the Dhamaal sequel Double Dhamaal with exceptional enthusiasm.

Maybe it's the pleasure of being cast opposite Sanjay Dutt or maybe just the delight of being accepted back in Bollywood.

But once known to charge anything from 1 to 1.5 crore rupees (not dollars) in Bollywood, now she has apparently refused to discuss money with producer Ashok Thakeria from Los Angeles (where her tweeted claims to friendship with Hollywood biggies has been roundly questioned).

Says the producer, “Mallika said she will take anything we give her. She's just happy to be a part of brand like Dhamaal and that too opposite Sanjay Dutt.”