Katti Batti (2015)

A romantic comedy that follows Maddy and Payal's live-in relationship until a sudden turn of events creates a distance between them.

Director:

Nikkhil Advani (as Nikhil Advani)

Writers:

Nikkhil Advani (as Nikhil Advani), Anshul Singhal

Stars:

Imran Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Suhaas Ahuja

Cast

Credited cast:
Suhaas Ahuja	...	Roger
Vivan Bhatena	...	Ricky
Imran Khan	...	Madhav Kabra / Maddy
Suparna Marwah	...	Madhav's Mother
Gavin N. Methalaka	...	Yash (as Methalaka Gavin)
Mithila Palkar	...	Koyal
Chandan Raina	...	FOSLA Band member
Kangana Ranaut	...	Payal
Abhishek Saha	...	Vinay
Shilpi Tiwari	...	Shweta

Storyline

Katti Batti is an anti-love story starring Imran Khan as Madhav Kabra (Maddy) & Kangana Ranaut as Payal. Maddy is an architect who is in love with Payal because of her attitude towards life. The story revolves around Maddy & Payal's live-in relationship for 5 years until a sudden turn of events when Payal leaves Maddy mid-way!

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

18 September 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ne certam si ne impacam

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$239,816, 20 September 2015, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$364,932, 4 October 2015

Company Credits

Production Co:

Emmay Entertainment,UTV Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

135 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Remake of the 2009 Hollywood Release - (500) Days of Summer.

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Goofs

[Around 0:20:48] While Devika is dissing about Payal to Maddy, her spoken words are in Hindi, while her lip movements correspond to the same sentence spoken in English.

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Soundtracks

Jaago Mohan Pyaare
Written by: Kumaar
Produced by: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa
Performed by: Siddharth Basrur, Digvijay Singh Pariyar, Raman Mahadevan and Rasika Sekar

User Reviews

Boring Than A Moral Science Lecture. ♦ Grade D-

Love stories often don't work when the people involved in them are ignorant as heck. Katti Batti tries to literally adapt one such story and on the way goes on to define absurdity. Most words and phrases used in this review are selected from the film's idiotic dialogs so that you get a better idea as to what to expect.

For most of the part, a peppy, hip girl named Payal (Ranaut) who is a wandering rebel born to Page 3 celebrities who decided to go all the way on the backseat of a car during a drunken brawl, and who has more than 2500 friends on Facebook is brutally skirt-chased by a baby- faced Maddy (Khan) who makes pursuing architecture look like a short week of R&R, who has just about 500 friends on Facebook including 350 fake profiles that he does't know about, and who has an annoying sister. There is no conviction in the story as it adopts a fair non-linear screenplay. An introduction to the so-called quirky characters using a hand-held shot sequence is all there is to relish in the first half.

The screenplay looks like it has been stitched together using a defunct sewing machine by a one-legged tailor with retina inflammation. There is humor if you look for it, but the slapstick is so bad my senses now have finally learned to smile at Kapil Sharma's jokes.

Love is fine, relationships are fine, even breakups are fine, but you don't want to shell out money to watch grown ups behave like kids, now do you? One should blame the dodgy story for its construction and unbelievability factor for all we see is a mopey boyfriend and a courageous girlfriend who does not like being called a girlfriend. So lets call her a girlfriend just to annoy her.

Ranaut is an active participant in the drama while her co-actor is just a bystander. Since you all have given her the license, she overacts a bit too much in the sequences that required silence. All other characters are running behind our male protag so that he can forget about this "girlfriend" who dumped him without a reason. And the reason for the breakup is stupid, considering we are in 2015, when you know it.

All said and done, the film is surely high on creativity, but is highly low on cake on which this creativity should have been the icing.

BOTTOM LINE: With a turtle called Milkha (the irony!), Nikhil Advani's Katti Batti is what you get when you take relationships too seriously and literally and make a film about it. Wait for DVD; but buy only when its price goes down to INR 49 on Amazon. And why not use the Mobikwik cashback offer on it?

Grade: D-

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES