Director : Nikhil Advani
Producer : Siddharth Roy Kapur and Nikhil Advani
Writer : Anshul Singhal
Star Cast : Imran Khan, Kangana Ranaut
Music : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Studio : UTV Motion Pictures and Emmay Entertainment
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Story line: Katti Batti is an anti-love story starring Imran Khan as
Madhav Kabra (Maddy) & Kangana Ranaut as Payal. Maddy is an architect who
is 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!
Know more about the
captain of the Ship, the director: Nikhil
went on to direct his first film under Dharma Productions, titled Kal Ho Naa Ho starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity
Zinta, Saif Ali Khan and Jaya Bachchan. The film was one of the biggest hits of
2003 and firmly established him as a director. The film won six Filmfare
awards.
Nikhil decided to make
his next film and announced that the title of the film would be Salaam-e-Ishq:
A Tribute To Love. The film has a huge star cast: Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra,
Sohail Khan, Vidya Balan, John Abraham, Akshaye Khanna, Govinda, Juhi Chawla,
Anil Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Shannon Esra and Anjana Sukhani. The film was
produced by Sunil Manchanda, Mukesh Talreja and Chetan Motiwalla and released
on 25 January 2007 to mixed reviews.
His next film Chandni Chowk To China, starring Akshay
Kumar was released on January 2009, but was a major disappointment. Even though
Chandni Chowk To China has disappointed, Nikhil has announced that he will
again work with the film's lead star Akshay Kumar. Patiala House is the title
of this film, and it also stars actress Anushka Sharma as the female lead.
Shooting began in December 2009, and it was released in 2011. The movie also
opened commercially in New York
He has directed
India's first stereoscopic 3D animation film, Delhi Safari, for which he also wrote the original story. The film
was released in October 2012
After the release of Patiala House in 2011, Nikhil Advani partnered
with Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani to form Emmay Entertainment, a motion
picture production company. Emmay Entertainment first production was D-Day (2013 movie), a film directed by
Nikhil, in association with DAR Motion Pictures, which was released on 19 July
2013.
My “Gut Feel” and
preview:
To be honest I am in dilemma after watching the trailer of the
movie.
I had watched the promo over and over again in last two days,
watched the interview of lead stars and director to read between the lines and
make out the distinction of this movie from being an average 2.5 stars to a
decent 3 stars out of 5.
I found its trailer being
intelligently edited and presented which is good enough to create curiosity with
urban multiplex audience. Imran is looking conventional however Kangana is
looking fresh and vibrant, overall a good paring.
Going by the screen play this movie seems to hold few
entertaining moments for audience however I am in doubt that it would be able
to maintain the excitement among the audiences throughout the movie.
Nikhil’s last week’s release “Hero” despite being a below average movie, managed to recover the
cost of production because of low budget and extensive promotions backing from
Salman’s production house. Budget of “Katti
Batti” is also moderate around 28 crore, running time is 2 hours 15 minutes
which is good and on top of it Kangana’s presence will surely increase the
chance of movie doing decent run at box office.
As far as allocating
stars to this movie goes, I am not sure of giving it 2.5 stars or 3 however
going with my gut feel I am sticking to 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, one day
before the release.