(Image source from: Madame Tussauds unveiled Katrina Kaif’s wax statue})

Madame Tussauds is world famous wax museum in London. It is one of the major tourist attraction displaying many waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers. Kaif was in town to unveil her wax likeness, which will now join a new Bollywood setting as part of the popular wax-work museum's "15 years of Bollywood" celebration.

"It's an amazing honour to be asked and to be featured alongside icons of the Indian film industry is humbling," the actress had said. After coming face-to-face with her wax model, Kaif said, "This is amazing it does look really like me."

She was born to a British mother and Kashmir father. Her family does stay in London. She went head to head with the competitors Priyanka Chopra and Deepika padukone and win in the poll last year with more than 225, 000 votes via Madame Tussauds website in collaboration with Panjab Radio.

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. 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.

The Bollywood statues have been proved extremely profitable with Indian holidaymakers and NRIs visiting the Madame Tussauds museum in large numbers.

- Lizitha