Shree Ashtavinayak's action-adventure BLUE boasts of an ensemble cast of Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif (special appearance), Rahul Dev and Zayed Khan.

When the film was announced there was a buzz that top actress Katrina Kaif had been paid an unheard of figure for just appearing in an item number for the movie. And sources also started touting Katrina as the highest paid item girl in Bollywood.

However, this proved to be totally false as Katrina is doing BLUE not for money but for friendship. And she is essaying a very special appearance (apart from a song).

In BLUE, and the reason behind this is her friendship with the team and the makers of BLUE, especially Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd., who gave Katrina her first major hit in the form of David Dhawan's MAINE PYAR KYUN KIYA.

This was confirmed by the numero uno actress, who accepted in a recent interview that she is doing BLUE only because of friendship.