adding spice to Koffee

Mumbai: The cats are out there cribbing and clawing, and how! Reigning queens of Bollywood seem to have found a new platform to vent their feelings and to get back at their rivals - filmmaker Karan Johar's chat show Koffee With Karan, fast becoming a battleground of sorts.

It all started with Priyanka Chopra finding herself at the receiving end of Kareena Kapoor's angst.

While Priyanka claimed to have buried the hatchet, Kareena refused to call her a friend making Priyanka see red too!

Kareena's talons of course, have been sharp since we've known her. Her cold war with Bipasha Basu may be old news, but who would have thought Kareena still holds a grudge?

She shot frozen looks towards Bipasha at an event to promote Omkara last year, and now it's her beau who'll spill some more beans on Johar's talk show this week.

Upon being asked who Kareena considers a threat among her co-stars, Shahid said she saw three women as potential threats.

But as you sow, so shall you reap. Kareena discovered this when Mallika Sherawat didn't spare a dig at her on Johar's show recently.

Mallika made no bones when she said she could have done Kareena's item number in Don much better. "Because I am better," Mallika said, matter-of-factly.

As for the catalyst himself, the man who provides these ladies the platform to battle it out, he chooses to wash his hands off any responsibility.

"I think people tend to be slightly more witty, if not bitchy, and slightly more fun on the show. I don't do anything. I ask innocent questions," he says.

Now this isn't the first time catfights have become a topic of conversation. Esha Deol slapped Amrita Rao while filming Pyare Mohan in Bangkok.

The story made tabloid headlines, and when asked about the incident on camera, here's how Amrita Rao responded.

But let's not forget that all this washing of dirty linen in public only helps sell more tabloid copies.

Not to mention what it does for Johar's talk show ratings.

And hey! If we might be as bitchy as theses ladies are, let's just say that sometimes their catfights are far more entertaining than their movies.

(With Rohit Khilnani)

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