In a new monthly feature, we take five Bollywood names and pit them against one another, finding out who ranks higher in relative terms.

We begin with Bollywood's A-list heroines, a ranking which takes into consideration star power, box office success, acting talent and public perception.

For this list, I took the country's four highest paid heroines and a girl who seems destined to join them soon enough.

The other heroines, talented or successful as they may be, are yet to make it to the A-list.

Here's my ranking, feel free to disagree.

1. Katrina Kaif

Nothing disagrees with success, and Katrina Kaif seems to have hit that purple patch of Bollywood form where she can do no wrong.

She's churning out hits by the bucketload -- Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Raajneeti, De Dana Dan and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani were all successes of varying degree -- and even a universally panned film like Tees Maar Khan did wonders for Katrina as she set the screen ablaze with her Sheila routine.

She's apparently single now, and unencumbered by Salman Khan, her sex appeal seems to be going right through the roof. Just ask the mangoes she sells so, so well.