KATTI BATTI - Nikhil Advani debuted in Bollywood under Karan Johar with one of my most favorite movie Kal Ho Na Ho. Then he goes on making 3-4 just average movies . Then he made a gripping thriller D- DAY , then he again goes to the mode of making below average films. This time its back to back in two weeks. Although i haven't seen last week's HERO but its response and its current IMDb rating (4/10) pretty much makes it clear that its a bad film. Same goes for Katti Batti. If you have seen the Hollywood flick 500 Days of Summer (which is actually a great romantic film) from which the whole concept of Katti Batti (except the last 20min twist) has been inspired and If you have seen Sweet November (which although not a great film but is better then Katti Batti) from which the last 20 min twist has been copied (oops it was a spoiler), then there left nothing for you in this flick. I cant understand that , is our writers are so bad that when they mix a great Hollywood movie with an above average Hollywood movie the result is actually a below average Bollywood movie. And Kangna Ranawat was so badly wasted , we didn't even get any long scenes of her to look into her acting until the last 20mins. Its not her fault that her character has not given that space and time so she can show her caliber , but its totally her fault that she selected this movie for herself. I don't want to start about Imran Khan . He is portraying the same character again and again (Ek Mein Aur Ek Tu , Gori Tere Pyaar Mein and now this) still he is not getting better in this. I don't even want to remember how bad he act when he does something else. Supporting cast are not interesting enough to discuss either. Editing of the movie was bad. The juggling between the scenes were confusing. When ever Imran starts to think about the past , after the past scene end we always found him in a new place not where he started remembering the past. So we have to remember every time where exactly the present scene was left. Direction was bad too , scenes don't have the finishing touch , were done half heartedly. Its like Nikhil was busy making too films together (Hero and Katti Batti) so he didn't gave his concentration to either of them. I must say like this Nikhil Advani will never able to make his own place in Bollywood. Shockingly songs are also forced in the movie. Infect just before the twist there was a song Jaago Mohan Pyaare which feels like director was ringing alarm for the persons who slept while watching the film. And after all of this boring flick when the twist came to tackle you , you were already so bored that no twist can make you bring your interest back.. Nikhil we want more Kal Ho Na Ho and D Days , not Hero or Katti Batti. Please don't be so desperate in making movies. 5.3/10. By ANuP APu KuMaM.
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anupapu818 September 2015
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namashi_13 December 2015Inspired by the Hollywood Cult Classic 500 Days of Summer, 'Katti Batti' tries hard to adapt the soul of its inspiration, but what is eventually served is a merely average film. Though the idea is great, the execution is uneven!
'Katti Batti' is a romantic comedy that follows Maddy (Imran Khan) and Payal's (Kangana Ranaut) live-in relationship until a sudden turn of events creates a distance between them.
'Katti Batti' has a lively first-hour, where some sequences bring a smile on your face. Its a bit interesting to see the heartbroken protagonist struggle to find his love back & the flashbacks on how the boy & girl met, have a niceness to it. Its the second-hour that fails. The narrative loses energy & the pace drops drastically. Also, the emotional manipulation in the final-act, doesn't work. In short, the first-hour works, but the second-hour spoils the fun.
Anshul Singhal's Screenplay is decent, but only in parts. The second-hour needed to be better! Nikhil Advani's Direction is ordinary. Cinematography is fine. Editing is average. Art & Costume Design are perfect. Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is melodious.
Performance-Wise: Imran Khan puts up a sincere act as the heartbroken lover-boy, although he impresses only in some scenes. Kangana Ranaut is monotonous. A stereotypical act!
On the whole, 'Katti Batti' works in bits, not entirely. -
Its a movie that SHOULD make you feel the actors sadness. The pain of parting with a loved ones and other such emotions. But the movie simply DID NOT build up the characters as well as it should have. The relationship wasn't built up to the moment, but was rather backtracked from a negative point in the relationship. After watching him talk about all the bad parts of the relationship for 70 % of the movie, you lose all kinds of empathy towards the actors. If you want to spend time watching a heartfelt and sad movie/show that would literally move you to tears, go watch "your lie in april". THAT is how this movie should have been made, not the way it was.
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nairtejas18 September 2015Love 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-
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alain296718 September 2015Lame!! Confusing!! Catastrophe!! The most confused director i have ever observed. He has placed himself at the helm of a sinking ship relying on such confusing plot, an unconvincing romance between co-stars.It was a tormenting journey throughout the movie and felt many times that it could have been ended right there. You want plot? Katti Batti is a very bad combination of 500 days of summer, sweet November,Striken and a few i don't remember.You will feel many times puzzled if i am watching the same movie.One of the most lame romantic movie of the year. My advice, if you are expecting a good Rom com movie by watching its trailer then don't go for it. It is boring, slack and stupid at many times. Avoid giving yourself a tormenting 135 minutes experience.
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dineshprakash18 September 2015Only thing I want to appreciate is the promo making team, who juiced up all the good stuff in promo that rest remained tasteless and baseless. Surprisingly first creative film making team must have thought about climax then, hurriedly and illogically started journey to find it's beginning but fails badly in it. There is nothing in name of story except pushed emotional climax, which makes you laugh instead of cry. Yes, if they have come up with good scenes then this climax could have been worked a bit but alias what could they have done with black comedy expert main male lead, which can evoke laughter in any emotional scene as it is cake walk for him. Screenplay succeeds completely to create confusing characters, irritating comedy and non relating emotional scenes. Script tries hard to give you the feeling that lead couple should be together but after few minutes you pray that they shouldn't. What is the irony of script!! Film starts with some amateur shooting video but it is most amateurish and long that you get the first bitter taste of remaining dish in few minutes only. How they break characters, in a scene they show a businessman is of tainted character but what was the need of showing him! Yes, he was the father of opponent but then why! Just because you felt the way of showing it very smart. They show taxi's both window half open and then male lead closing it. I didn't get what intelligence was behind it! Boy running behind car of girl, this shot is obsolete in today's cinema. Tortoise emotional angle is just flat, somehow you feel sympathy for tortoise but not for couple. Pre climax sequence of boat chasing in pond is most irritating. Performance wise, one can dare to cast Imran Khan if film has any emotional angle. He is as unbalanced as much he could have been. Kangana Ranaut looks complete reluctant. She is very average with a peculiar hair style. #MithilaParkar as Komal, younger sister is very good. She is completely balanced. Music by Shankar Ehassan Loy have tracks "Lip To Lip De Kissiyan" , Sau Aansu Roye Do Ankhiyan" and " Ishaq Da Rutba", which are good.
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darrelwilliam16 January 20167 only for the last 20 or odd minutes.. I feel like that's when story starts.. If you keep your patience till the last you will feel its worth a watch.. Yup movie could have been better in a thousand ways but its what it is and rater than criticizing it badly lets try and be fair and like this movie for what it is.. Obviously Imran and Kangana have done a heck of a job.. Kangana Suits best for climax and Imran for rest of movie.. May be a different cast would have done the job.. Other actors where just pain for eyes.. They just couldn't pull it through and they did have a important part for story to move on.. You could not like this movie but certainly can't hate this one at least it leaves a small impact inside you..
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rkwiatek19 September 2015The film has a story which is not new or fresh as love stories like this have been attempted in Hindi cinema before also. It is loosely inspired by Hollywood films 500 Days Of Summer, Sweet November and Chasing Amy.
One more point about the screenplay which keeps troubling the audience is that too much time is devoted to Maddy trying to locate Payal. In today's time, tracing a loved one can't be as difficult as it becomes for Maddy. Therefore, rather than the audience feeling sad for Maddy, it ends up feeling irritated at his, so to say, inability and dumbness. Showing Maddy running (and literally, many times) in search of Payal looks rather silly.On the whole, Katti Batti lacks the depth of an intense love story and also lacks entertaining moments. Its tension-ridden climax is another minus point, from the box-office point of view. It will end up as a losing proposal as it fails to not only entertain but also emotionally move the audience. It wastes our time most comprehensively and completely. -
saeedsaund925 December 2015See the movie with your better half. And wait till the end, when all gets revealed to you.
If you like 500 days of summer or something that keeps you interested then a good movie. The actors are just not that professionals to act in THIS serious movie. But the comedy is priceless. 20 min of comedy is in there.
And for what happens in the movie, it all adds up to the events that lead to the the end. Cant push how mush it is necessary to see the end after watching the whole movie
And for the supporting rolls. They are a hit or miss. This movie really forces those supporting actors to play in important roll. Some of the actors are great but some fall short.
Hope you like the movie, me and my wife liked it. But loved the story -
tejasviknight18 September 2015Today i decided to saw this film i thought today its off from my job so lets watch the movie i decided to watched the afternoon show. I thought it would be interesting as they said comedy and romance but after watched i realized this movie is blood sucker nothing more. If you really want to save your time and money do not go for it instead of this just go for Everest if you have this in your city but do not watch Katti Batti I do not understand what Director of this movie thought before created this. I just wasted my time today on this so guys i hope you wont do this. But in Last its all your choice everyone has own opinions.
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tiblada-983-89779823 January 2016Today I watched a movie (KATTI BATTI), that many people kept telling me not to do so and how awful it is, I have read the reviews they all said the same thing, it is awful, they share their disappointments in the actors and director or how it is a copy of this and that but since I'm a stubborn person I decided to check it and now after watching it I understood the director and writer point or vision. I think it is the reviewers who are so blinded by their expectation of the typical Indian movies or any love movies " a happy ending" what they fail to understand it does have a happy ending(spoiler alert), yes She died at the end but she took her last breath in the arm of her lover. What people fail to understand that kind of love stories does exist, they happened in real life, Right now many people are hearing from their doctors they are terminally ill, and some are afraid to tell their loved one because they either don't want to be a burden or hurt them. I believe Katti Batti is a beautiful story and recommend people to watch it also I can't understand why something so simple seems hard for people to fathom. I am Happy there is someone telling these love stories, they might be sad or not perfect but it is a true love story" yes it is hard knowing someone you love is sick and there is nothing you can do well he did the only thing he could which is to shower her with love and happiness till her last breath( his perseverance in loving her seems to upset people) well it doesn't matter I bet many people can relate to the story. Many people have this kind of love, many people have someone who had/has someone whether a lover or a family who is or was terminally ill and they continue to love them ( the normal things to do) the end didn't diminish the romance it made KATTI BATTI more moving, yes it is tragic, heartbreaking but it is also beautiful and true. Just because you don't understand or can't relate to this kind of love it doesn't mean it's not typical. and to those that felt Katti Batti' leaves you feeling cheated as a viewer then that's exactly the way it made those people feel, try to understand it's the reality of these kinds of loves. People don't weight Love in the Balance of life and death.
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jmoneyjohal18 September 2015Rarely does a director release more than one film a year, but here we have Nikhil Advani, releasing his 2nd film in two consecutive weeks in a row, Hero last week, and now Katti Batti. Again like his former release Hero, Katti Batti has also been getting not so flattering reviews from the Indian media, but where I could understand the negativity towards Hero (Hero was quite average), Katti Batti on the contrary is a well made enjoyable, romcom/emotional drama.I mean the story is quite routine and predictable, but the presentation, the films whole feel is completely fresh. I mean after watching the trailer what else did you except. For me its a winner, and Nick Advani, for me has redeemed himself after Hero.
Story wise the film is told from the perspective of Maddy. The film shifts back from present and future, and in the present Maddy is depressed, after his girlfriend of 5 years he loves dearly leaves him, they where in a live in relationship. Maddy even almost commits suicide by accidentally drinking phenyl. In the past it is shown that his girlfriend was a bindass chick who lived life freely, didn't care about much, and was a commitment phob. Maddy on the other side sincerely loved her. Eventually they both commit to each other,and decide to live together, which leads to there breakup eventually in the present. After the breakup Payal eventually blocks Maddy on all social networking sites changes her phone number etc, and Maddy is dumbfounded as to how she can forget a 5 year relationship so fast. He then finds out Payal is getting married in Delhi and runs to Delhi for answers.Why is Payal avoiding Maddy, and getting married so sudden, why did she really leave him is what forms the rest of the story.
Acting wise Imran Khan is back after the debacle of OUATIMD and Gori Tere Pyar Mein. He is back to doing his forte which is RomComs, and he probably delivers one of his best acts ever. Its a mature act, and he owns the film. Bravo. Kagana Ranut, is apt for the role and is very good.
Katti Batti is at its best in the last 30 mins of the film where its turns into a emotional drama, even I cried a bit in the climax,but I must say its a manipulative finale at its best, but it works so who really cares. If only the story was not so predictable, I mean the non- linear way of story telling does make up for a lot of the predictability, but still. I did however like how there was laughs in even the most tense situations in the film. I mean if I had too pinpot, the negatives in the film,its the routine story, and dragged screenplay at times. But these are minor blemishes
Overall watch Katti Batti, if you like tear jerking rom coms, I mean the story is routine, but its done very well. I am fan of the Indian RomCom genre so I might have been a bit biased, but even if your not, Katti Batti is definitely a one time watch.
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desicheguevara21 September 2015This could well be the last film, for both the Director Nikhil Advani and Actor Imran Khan, when viewers will take note of them seriously. The film is targeted to multiplex movie-goers of metros with Hollywood inspired story telling style. The movie opens up well, as was the trailer of the movie which generated some interest among the target audience, but as we move along the story, the viewers feel cheated and deprived of the value for their money. The first half of the movie was so badly presented, trying to copy from Hollywood movies, that the last 15-20 min of the movie which was the best part of the movie helped by fine performance by ever improving Kangna Ranaut, instead of leaving the viewers in tears left them laughing at poker-face of Imran Khan and that is the irony of the movie.
The film is centred around Imran Khan in (500) days of summer style of story telling. The offence of the Director is not just in failed attempt of copying 4-5 Hollywood movies but he gave little interest in character building of both Imran Khan and Kangana Ranaut. The role of Kangana, who is enjoying form of her life giving awesome performance in Queen and Tanu weds manu returns, in the movie except for last 15-20 min was meagre and she was left with only showcasing colorful, out of the world type dresses and ill-make up-ed hairstyles. The direction was good in only parts, trailer being better than the movie, and one wonders whether the movie is directed by some Ad director. Although, couple of song sequence was nicely filmed. The fight sequence in college, a sequence where Imran Khan pushes the bike while Kangana is still seated as pillion and a sequence in which Imran Khan's sister argues using facebook to convince Imran Khan that Kangana Ranaut is not committed to him is laughable, viewers's expect a lot better from the director.
The supporting characters in the film are out of the world with a turtle as pet named Milkha, a south Indian boss who jumps and shouts at a decible which nearly ruptured viewers' eardrums, Imran Khan's sister who just tries to imitate the role of girl in (500) days of summer, college friends who can do anything to save 'not-so-dude' drunk guy from being caught by his parents, a male protagonist's best friend, a female protagonist's friend who is more worried about some Rs. 5 lac toilet seat pot than the condition of depressed Imran Khan and then there is a band group, every member of which is ditched by their better half, named F.O.S.L.A acronym for Frustrated One Sided Lover's Association, some may find it as newly invented word but the name is also borrowed from a not so famous Prakash Jha produced film Dil Dosti etc. The music of the film is average and one soon forget it as he/she steps out of the hall.
The biggest let down of the movie is undoubtedly Imran Khan. The whole movie was centred around him but he gave a very poker-faced performance where he should have tried harder to twitch a facial muscle or two. In many sequences his acting made it look an average scene which should have been emotionally exhaustive scenes. His acting in later, serious part of the movie was summed up by the viewers' laughters in the partially filled hall where the director would have intended the spectators to shed some tears.
Overall, the movie is a big let down and raises the question mark on the future career path of both director Nikhil Advani and the male protagonist Imran Khan. -
prateek-singh1385-413-63492619 January 2016Leaving aside that fact that I have now watched Romedy Now so often that I believe the channel and my cycles have synced, I went one step further and saw a romantic-comedy from Bollywood on the large screen. It featured a psychopathic scorned lover as the male protagonist and a stupid sexless woman as the female lead.
Not to say that Tatti-Tatti is a bad movie, but I would have rather spent my time getting my nails removed by sticking a screwdriver beneath them, while simultaneously having my hair individually removed from their follicles. With each passing scene and every passing minute I could feel myself grow old, senile and sense my gray cells banging against my cranium vying for a brain hemorrhage while the rest of my body cheered them on.
There are a horde of things I want to do before I die, and I remembered each and every one of them when this ludicrous crapfest of a movie, was being spewed at me at the rate of 24 frames per second.
So in the interest of this being a movie review, let me start with the story. (Deep Breath .Exhale!)
Madhav Kabra (Imran Khan) is an architect who is in love with Payal (Kangana Ranaut) because of her "oh-I'm-so-cool-everyone-else-is-a- fool" attitude in life. She's a filthy rich spoiled brat who doesn't know her head from her ass. Madhav obviously falls in love with her.
Post graduating (I think they do graduate), they have a live-in relationship for 5 years, in a duplex in Mumbai that is worth Rs. 30000 pm in Mumbai. Leaving the fictional location aside, Payal one fine day leaves Maddy as she is now just not in love with him anymore.
Maddy distraught "accidentally" drinks poison .wait no, that would make sense, ah yes drinks Phenyl. Cheaper alternative. Maddy's friends, Payal's friends, his family, her friends, his ex-friends, his colleagues, everyone's neighbors and even a stupid turtle says, "Dude! She's just not that into you!! Get the F**k over it". But does our hero listen .N frigging O. Maddy clings to the belief that a girl who was with him for a few years can't just be over him so easily. After all, he is an architect from a top notch college in Ahmadabad and he carried his paper-holster everywhere to prove it. So why, oh why is she not into him?
Spoiler Alert: Maddy's mom dies midway in the movie and Payal sees Maddy is very sad about it. Payal has cancer and she is about to die as well, so she decides that rather than tell him that she is about to die, she will break up with him, marry his arch nemesis from college and stop talking to him altogether in the effort that he 'understands'. But of course .
Long story short, he finds out, he cries, she slaps him, she cries, he acts like a moron, she reciprocates, she dies, he lives, he wakes up and laughs it off as a bad dream ..wait the last part was just me, and sadly not true. :(
The movie is shown in a haphazard manner, where they jump between time lines past and present to try and give the user a feel of how confused they were while thinking about the story itself. With a mix of some horrible editing and some classless humor the movie is perfect for those days, when you are contemplating your purpose in life and wasting your time watching the movie would shake you up and scare you more than anything thus pushing you to pursue your dreams faster and harder.
The direction is horrendous, though I can't quite put my finger on why exactly. I mean this is the same person who has delivered the super- hit Kal Ho Naa Ho followed that up with Salaam-e-Ishq, then Chandani Chowk to China and followed those cult classics with Patiala House, Delhi Safari, D-Day, Help Me! I'm Losing My Touch in Direction and his last movie was Hero. (Alright I made one of those movies up, but if you think about it, that movie could be his biopic). As far as the acting talent on display goes, it's laughable. Imran Khan needs his acting license revoked and Kangana needs to stick to roles like Revolver Rani or Queen where she can act as an illiterate, who is learning English.
The selling proposition of this movie is its .musi .uuhh acti .hmm .storyli (HAHAHAHAHA) maybe the costumes!! (Closer) and well, maybe the popcorn
Personally, the best part of the movie I think is the interval since that is when you can throw up the bile in your throat. Also, it's only post movies like these that you realize why those security guards feel you up when you enter the theater. If I had a knife or a gun, I would have probably slit my wrist/shot myself, within the first 15 minutes. A budget of Rs 36 crore, a majority of which I sense was spent on getting Imran Khan the perfect hipster glasses and Kangana's curly hair, could have been much better spent if they bought a quality writer .or even hired Russell Peters!! But sadly, what we get is a string of nonsensical, immature, unfunny, mismanaged bunch of crap, wrapped in glitter and sold to us under the pretext of a "movie" and a headache that lasts two days.
The horror ..the trauma .the disease!! -
ancybenny21 September 2015This is the most disappointing film I have ever seen till now!! I had so many expectations for this movie but now,I regret having those.What the hell is this movie about?? The romance is terrible,the comedy is unbearable,and the twist in the end distasteful! The shittiest story of Maddy and Payal- They fall in love,get married,start fighting like stubborn little kids over silly silly reasons and finally she leaves him and then the story ends up saying that she has this health problem and she did everything on purpose right from the start.How stupid can that be? This film is annoying,displeasing and a huge disaster!I made a big mistake! Folks stay away!
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Ever since Imran Khan's JTYJN and Kangana's Fashion I wanted to see them on the big screen, I luv'em both a lot and they are both so talented and cute looking. For some years I was into Russian culture so I barely watched any hindi movie, until recently that I heard in dono me movie agaya hai. I was so happy, remembering Imran Khan's interview in 2010 saying he'd like to do a movie with Kangana. I checked the IMDb and was shocked by the rating but I loved them too much to not give this movie a try. Even though watching them together was a treat, Kangana looking incredibly gorrrrg and Imran looking as handsome as always, the movie was a mess. I couldn't help but fast forwarding it. I never thought I'd say this someday about a Kangana and Imran movie but, Not at all recommended!!!
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faisalfaves3 December 2015A nice story by Anshul Singhal, but director Nikhil Advani never shown it deeply. For director Nikhil Advani, this is a second letdown in a row after Umesh Bist and his own story Hero. For Imran Khan, this is a hat-trick of flops after Rajat Arora's story Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara and Arshad Syed's story Gori Tere Pyaar Mein. For Kangna Ranaut, this is second back to back box office failure.
Martin D'Souza from Glamsham Editorial gave 0/5 to this movie. He stated in his review article "KATTI BATTI is idiotic, It's difficult to believe that we are seeing such inane stuff on screen from a director who gave us D-DAY. If at all Nikhil wanted the script to tug at one's heart, he should have seen ANKHIYON KE JHAROKHON SE 10 times and then redone the movie.
Indeed, this is FOSLA KA GHOSLA!"
But I think it could be good and energetic which they forgot! -
pradeepsep-0093720 September 2015Remake of "A Walk to Remember" in Indian style. The acting of Imran Khan is really very disappointing. The film changes its time phase of past,present, future very frequently, which is quite confusing at times. Direction is not in depth. It seems like we are watching the overview of the film.
Story in short: A boy fell in love with a casual girl. They broke up. The girl is going to die. So, she wanted Imran Khan to forget her and move on.
Few jokes were hilarious.
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doctan200218 September 2015Evening show on the first day of release , I must have been pretty excited to watch this one . The movie doesn't disappoint as a whole package especially for the romantic breed. Few comic punches , a bit slow story (slightly predictable) line and good songs make it worth an evening . The great cinematography and awesome singing of Ritu pathak and Nikhil Dsouza in 'Lip to Lip' alone carries half the charm of the movie and certainly gives you a tune to hum around. Somewhat slow towards the end , the director somehow manages well to show the different aspects of a love life ,though picturized more on Imran Khan , left me wishing more screen space and time for Kangana who effortlessly grabbed the presence off Imran. Overall a decent movie.. Go Watch..
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pradeep_fun618 September 2015Katti Batti is like watching poor watching version of "Sweet November". Boy met girl they both fell in love and one day " snap" girl left the boy without saying anything. We have seen all these kind of stuff in many movies and we have this again. Katti Batti is extremely boring, dull and way too much dragged. Too many loopholes in plot and complete half baked story is the biggest drawback.
What's good : The chemistry between Imran and Kangana looks good and carried well. Picturization of song lip to lip is done very well.. Apart from that nothing holds you to entertain.
What's Bad : So many things... Sleek storyline, dull and dragging plot as I told already. Some stupid jokes which not going to make u lol.. and comic scenes are forcefully pushed between nowhere... Supporting cast seems like took for granted all they can have is address and contact number & rescuing Imran khan from another heart break... too dramatic scenes like " maa ke kangan" and pet like " Milkha" seriously..???
Now main star cast.. Imran Khan... He is the main star of the movie and he tried so much to make this movie work and somehow it worked... but all we know it's not his fault. It's his choice of movies. Emotional scenes are carried nicely by him but sometimes it's not...
Now kangana.. honestly the reason I saw this movie is bcoz of her and I really disappointed coz she's hardly there. After making some brilliant movies why did she drained all her versatility by doing this kind of stuff where she don't have anything to do... I really wanna ask her what she did and why??
Now we have Nikhil Advani.. I think after kal ho na ho. He forget how to make a good movie. And it seems like he is giving competition to sajid khan and others like him to make more craps... so I really wanna tell him that take as much as time you want. Come with a good story and make something which makes us forget what mess he done after kal ho na...
All in all Katti Batti has nothing to offer anything new.. it's just old, boring and insensible movie wrapped into old and boring love story and too much emotions that makes you nothing but yawn... don't waste Ur time or money on that.. -
harnoor_51718 September 2015Well first of all I am absolutely shocked by the critics' negative reviews about this movie! This movie has proved to be one great entertainer! Katti Batti has the potential to touch your hearts! This movie has much of Imran Khan who is back after a long term break! And yes..he's actually back! The first half of the movie tickle's your funny bone! It makes you laugh and makes you feel that yes, love is there around you! The second half of the movie strikes the emotional chords! And the last 20 minutes of the movie leaves you with teary eyes! There is less of Kangana in Katti Batti! But her performance though less, is a strong an appreciable one! On the whole Katti Batti is a great watch! All the performances are great and entertaining! Go watch this flick and ignore the critics :)
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binducherungath19 September 2015Katti Batti is a romantic comedy by Nikhil Advani. In the beginning, it appears that the film is an attempt to explore the sweet-sour, love-hate relationship of the lead protagonists, who are in a live- in set up. But, later on the film moves to different domain explaining the reasons behind the katti Batti of the lead protagonists. Katti Batti are the words used by kids. Katti is the word used when kids fight and they decide that they would never talk to each other. Batti is the word which is used when the fight is dissolved and the decision to not speak to each other is not valid anymore. Nikhil explores the katti Batti of the lead protagonists. The Katti predominates in their relationship or finally Batti happens, that is for you to explore and watch. The frames keep moving from present to flash back. If the first half projected the romance between Imran and Kangana followed by their frequent fights and their relationship falling apart, second half is about Imran's pursuit to fetch her back. The film begins with Payal (Kangana Ranaut) and Madhav aka Maddy's (Imran Khan) sharing some fun moments and capturing the same in camera viz. Quirky manner of getting married by taking the round of fire lit in the waste, using sauce instead of sindur etc. These scenes definitely set the tone of the movie to be a very lighter one, but they don't generate much laughter. Very soon, we see Maddy being rushed to the hospital, who has drunk phenol because Payal has left him. His sister Koyal comes to meet him in the hospital, and she along with his friend Vinay takes him to hometown to his father Suneel Sinha. Koyal, though younger to him is very protective of him and takes authoritative approach. Both Koyal and Vinay persuade Maddy to forget Payal and move on in life. On Maddy's return to office (he is an architect), he finds that the whole office is sympathetic towards him due to his suicide attempt, courtesy Vinay. The frames in between move to the flash back to explain how it was love at first sight for Maddy. He fell in love with spunky Payal, her independent nature, quirky ways. He persistently followed her and expressed to her that he loves her. Payal transparently conveyed that she is not keen for any committed relationship; it would be just a time pass for her. Maddy was so much in love with her that he even agreed to her this attitude. Five years of live-in relationship - all sorts of doing crazy stuff together, madness and togetherness. But then a series of fights begin. Although the fights are not shown very evidently, these run in the background. Certain events turn the course of the relationship and Payal just vanishes from Maddy's life, goes away. In spite of Koyal and Vinay constantly asking Maddy to move on in life, he is not able to get over Payal. Koyal keeps reminding Maddy that he is not the perfect guy for Payal, there is a huge class difference between the two, Payal belonging to upper class and he to the middle class. Maddy is not ready to forget Payal, since somewhere he believes that Payal still loves him. Without knowing the whereabouts of Payal, he frantically starts contacting their common friends to know where she could be.
Is Maddy able to locate her? If yes, how? Is he able to win her back? Do they dissolve their fight and say Batti to each other? How does Ricky (Vivaan) play his role in the movie? Does Ricky's presence help Payal and Maddy to reunite?
Imran gets majority of the screen time. Payal gets less screen time in comparison to Imran, and this definitely is not her 'queen' performance. Lot of characters are fillers. Boss of Maddy keeps calling him and his friend Vinay as his Rama and Lakshmana. But he is hardly able to generate laughter. Some other fillers are characters of Deepika (Maddy's colleague), friends Tina, Shweta etc. One more character that of a tortoise is there and how it becomes part of the film, watch it. I wish, Suneel as Maddy' s father, a great actor, had some substantial role to play. Shankar Ahsaan Loy' music is OK. The Sufi song sung by the FOSLA band (Frustrated One Sided Lovers Association) is good. Cinematography is good. I wish, the screenplay could have been a bit gripping with good sense of humour blended with emotions. All of you may not like the movie, since it is not very high on entertainment quotient. You may like the movie for its last 30 minutes, if you are an emotional person and enjoy watching display of emotions on screen. I also felt that Nikhil took a safe approach to end the movie to show what actually sells emotionally. Overall, the film is OK. Katti Batti, although with not so gripping screenplay, fares alright with the story blended with emotions especially towards the end of the film. -
bobbysing2 August 2016Before the release, it was being speculated by many that probably Kangna Ranaut will rescue the film with her 'bindaas character' continuing from where she left in QUEEN or TANU WEDS MANU series. But personally I was quite firm on the conclusion that its rarely an actor that can save a badly conceived film not supported by any fine writing and direction. As a matter of fact, we recently saw the same happening with Kangnaonly in her poorly made projects such as REVOLVER RANI and the ill fated I LOVE NY. Yet many were still having a lot of faith on the actress that unfortunately gets completely shattered into pieces with her latest KATTI BATTI.
Directed by Nikhil Advani, who delivered another lousy film HERO just last Friday (entirely depending upon the visible support coming from its producer Salman Khan), KATTI BATTI is nothing but another of those FILLER PRODUCTS made by the big production houses as per their commitment to serve the multiplexes on a regular basis. KATTI BATTI begins on a decent note (with the Kissiyan song shot/edited well), but then suddenly shifts on to such an awful gear accompanied by a mediocre soundtrack that literally makes you ask that does Kangna really considers herself a great actress with a newly found exceptional understanding of cinema? And did Nikhil Advani actually directed KAL HO NA HO or D-DAY himself or it was Karan Johar and some other creative mind behind those much better attempts?
Moreover the film also makes you strongly question many of these lesser talented new age 'star-sons-daughters-nephews and nieces' that, do they realise that whatever they have achieved till date is all because of their gifted 'surnames' and not related to any of their inherited talents? Plus have they ever thought that in what number we have much more talented people struggling their ways towards a single chance that simply gets taken away by a 'now available star-son', who certainly has a more saleable market due to his family linkage, eventually spreading a much stronger feeling of discrimination, stress and bitterness among them all.
However leaving the thought here for their individual introspection standing in front of the mirror, I would specifically like to address Kangna Ranaut, who tried hard to stop the release of I LOVE NY a few weeks back as it was a 'stuck movie' lying in cans since 2012. And if the 'National award winner' actress sincerely considered KATTI BATTI a much better film than I LOVE NY, then it certainly puts a big question mark on whatever film-writing courses she had supposedly done in the recent years. Because I LOVE NY at least had some kind of novelty in its basic theme that couldn't be executed well by its director-duo.
In short, revolving around the same old theme of a terminally ill person sacrificing the love for all (as earlier seen in the director's KAL HO NA HO), here we have Imran Khaneffortlessly sleep walking in the entire film along with Kangna, who also turns out to be quite 'unimpressive' even in her 'bold scenes and dialogues' proving a known fact that it's the combination of a talented WRITER & DIRECTOR that makes the much appreciated reputation of an ACTOR but not the other way round.
In the end, I would simply like to add that these big production houses keep serving us with the same content again and again and again, because we actually let them do so making no protests of any kind whatsoever as a paying viewer. So till we decide to show some concerning guts, this arrogant act of making such repetitive and ridiculous movies would continue as always without any major hindrance.
Oh!, just forgot to mention AAMIR KHAN, the perfectionist uncle of KATTI BATTI's leading actor, who probably had helped in the film's editing too as per an 'unconfirmed' news.
Who says AAMIR KHAN is not a great actor? In fact if a person can cry watching KATTI BATTI saying it really moved him a lot ...... then he surely is the greatest actor on the whole planet to say the least! -
g_aparna20 September 2015A film that ends with patti shatti!
A long drab that tried desperately to make the viewer cry but failed at it coz' the viewer was already dead watching the pathetic pranks of college going idiots!!
Story line:
A negligibly dressed college female instantaneously falls in love with a dope male. She was in a relationship with another guy but she left him for the dope. She made a very quick decision here.
Female was rich whereas the dope was not as rich as her – just belonged to a middle class family.
Male and female are shown in compromising position in a small car – smooching and all – but indication is given that they were just cuddling kissing etc and not 'eff-ing'. Which also means that the girl – although who dressed mostly like how 'sl*ts' dress in India (that is what 90% of Indians believe btw. That a female who dresses up cheaply gives out vibes of being available and is game to jump on bed with anyone who catches her fancy! – yes, I know many people will scream and shout after reading the above line – but I am stating facts – and truth is always bitter) - she was a pure virgin – i.e. she had not even slept with her previous boyfriend (quite possible though). Then the dope and the rich female decide to live together! Wow! Such a modern thought that was!
Then they mock at the sanctity of marriage! They pull in the dustbin, light the garbage lying in it – and start taking rounds of it (pheres) and then dive on bed...again! So basically this scene shows the utter failure of the institution of marriage! Both were from different family backgrounds – yet both mocked at marriage! The dope's parents seemed pretty simple and decent who must have done everything to raise their children as best as they could – but still their son turned out to be a drunkard and frivolous idiot who happily started to live together with a female. The female's parents are not shown in the film – but looks like they were filthy rich and let their daughter enjoy trips abroad and do whatever she felt like – live in, live out, not live – whatever! Then they started to fight. They parted ways. Later dope came to know that the female used to purposely fight with him because she was suffering from cancer – brain cancer I think – and hardly had any time left with her ...so she wanted him to hate her and start life afresh! Dope finds out and brings her back to his dilapidated apartment. She dies in the shabby surroundings.
Conclusion – What can such dumb fools achieve by surviving anyway? Such frivolous fools bring forth more confused brats on planet earth and ruin the progress of the world! Such live-in fools can continue living –in but not bring forth children before wedlock because ultimately it is children born to such irresponsible idiots that create all the ruckus in the world!
USP - The potty training scene by Kangana-
There is something called potty –training that responsible parents (mothers especially) teach infants during their infanthood! Seems the dope's mom never gave him any potty training...and ultimately the rich female had to impart this basic knowledge to the dope! So basically even if she had not died of cancer – they would still have parted ways – a rich female belonging to high class and culture could not have continued to live with some uncouth middle class loser male for long... -
This movie was let down hugely with a foolish storyline. The plot drags you to the end and then you realise it been a waste of your hours. Why would they do this. I'm so disapppointed with this. This film is a 101 in how to destroy a film in the last quarter. I mean someone just remake the ending for gods sake. Appalling script and very unrealistic in terms of the actions taken by one of the lead characters. Unreal.