Ratings:
Hindustan Times : 1.5/5
Yahoo : 2.5/5
Rediff : 1/5
Hindustan Times : 1.5/5
Yahoo : 2.5/5
Rediff : 1/5
Lead actors Imran Khan and Kangana Ranaut try their darnedest, but let’s face it, Advani and the script never come close to giving them a chance.
She is a wealthy jet-setter who capriciously travels across Europe and moves in with her man on a whim, after which she spends an awful lot of time texting her ex.
This is literally just the beginning, as Katti Batti goes on to verbalise the obvious over and over again.
Also, dear filmmakers, we must here interject a plea: do not give Ranaut English words to say unless you direct her into saying them right.
We know she’s a terrific actress and have gotten used to the accent, but here, in a film where she’s supposed to be a bohemian highly-travelled rockstar-pixie, it really, really jars when she pronounces ‘dramatise’ as drummatyze.
Advani’s last film, Hero, released just a week ago, and I decried it for being an unnecessary, mediocre remake.
But that was a lunkheaded actioner and we’re kind of used to those films being daft.
Heartbreak, on the other hand, is rarely this synthetic, this thoughtless, this obvious.
Katti Batti just smells wrong -- and that may well be the most universal dealbreaker of all.
She is a wealthy jet-setter who capriciously travels across Europe and moves in with her man on a whim, after which she spends an awful lot of time texting her ex.
This is literally just the beginning, as Katti Batti goes on to verbalise the obvious over and over again.
Also, dear filmmakers, we must here interject a plea: do not give Ranaut English words to say unless you direct her into saying them right.
We know she’s a terrific actress and have gotten used to the accent, but here, in a film where she’s supposed to be a bohemian highly-travelled rockstar-pixie, it really, really jars when she pronounces ‘dramatise’ as drummatyze.
Advani’s last film, Hero, released just a week ago, and I decried it for being an unnecessary, mediocre remake.
But that was a lunkheaded actioner and we’re kind of used to those films being daft.
Heartbreak, on the other hand, is rarely this synthetic, this thoughtless, this obvious.
Katti Batti just smells wrong -- and that may well be the most universal dealbreaker of all.
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