Working with Katrina Kaif turned out to be a pleasure for Prakash Jha when the pretty lady volunteered to pay him the day's shooting expenses as she couldn't learn her lengthy dialogues and felt that she needed extra time for preparation.

Actuallty, it all happened on the sets of Rajneeti in Bhopal recently, where a heavyduty set-up headed by Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgn, Manoj Bajpayee, Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal was prepared for a day's shoot but Katrina wasn't ready with her dialogues.

Unwilling to make the director bear the loss, the actress made a unique offer to Jha. She offered to pay him back Rs. 15 lakh from her remuneration for the loss of work. Of course Jha did not take the money but he was 'touched' by Katrina's professional gesture.

Unit hands say that Katrina had taken it as a challenge and knew every dialogue when she came to shoot on second day. From the moment she arrived on the sets she was ready to face the camera and deliver her dialogues in chaste Hindi.

No wonder the lady is reigning queen!