| Bio: | Young Katy, an aspiring graphic designer in 1972-73, was working as a receptionist at the London Hilton hotel when a Playboy Club employee saw her and asked her to audition. After meeting Hugh Hefner, Katy become a Playboy "Bunny" in 1973. Katy, the daughter of an income tax officer, was born in Aden as Katiya. In the 1960s, her family moved to the UK. Fame and stardom brought Katy to Mumbai. She featured in Ramesh Bhal's Kasme Vaade, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rakhee. Katy played Ruby, a politician's personal secretary, in the controversial film Kissa Kursi Ka (1978). Katy never made it big in Bollywood but there were many rumours about her perceived closeness with the likes of Hussein bin Talal, the then king of Jordan.For the most part of the 70s, Katy adorned magazine covers and centrespreads. It was rumoured that she had her breast size surgically reduced by ten inches. Columnist and novelist Shobhaa De had described it as "Operation Bust"De had written in the "Eyecatchers" section of India Today magazine in 1978 about Katy's "well-publicised operation to reduce her bustline by ten fulsome inches". Calling it "Operation Bust", she had said Katy had emerged "slimmer, lighter and with a big load off her chest".Katy had been mentioned in Sudeep Chakravarti's novel Tin Fish, which was published in 2005. Her photographs were a part of the photo essay book India: Then and Now, put together by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Vir Sanghv.Lore has it that the size of her breasts were surgically reduced by 10 inches. She didn't retaliate. Anyway what the hell, practically every magazine - the glossies as well as their country cousins - were tripping over themselves to feature her on the cover. Sold-out issues were guaranteed. And the lady didn't ever segue into the coy mode or coin catchphrases to boost her sex appeal, no instaquotes on the lines of "jo dikhtahai woh bikta hai." The story of Katy Mirza, indeed, is the stuff that biopics are made of today. Snag: the pieces |
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