Katrina Kaif is one of Bollywood's leading actresses  the most searched-for Indian female film star on the Internet and a former top model with an A-list boyfriend.

But the 25-year-old, whose latest film "Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani" ("An Amazing Story Of Strange Love") is released.

On November 6, said her rise to fame has not been easy and she is determined success will not go to her head.

"It didn't happen overnight. I was here struggling to make it as a model and tried my luck in acting," she said.

"I didn't know in the first place whether I wanted to be in acting but then good roles started coming and my films started becoming a hit. And here I am."

Kaif, born in Hong Kong to a British mother and a father of Indian Kashmiri origin, made a faltering start in the 2003 film "Boom" after being spotted in a commercial.