Katti Batti- the makeup-breakup delirium to avoid!

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What does katti batti mean? - My first reaction was with the name, I then figured it was the term I heard as a child which meant breaking up and making up respectively. So, well the story of this film is based on the katti batti between the lead characters, Payal (Kangana Ranaut) and Maddy/ Madhav (Imran) and when the reason of this Katti or Batti is revealed nothing makes sense. The movie starts as a romantic thriller/ suspense, moves on to be being a romantic comedy and ends as a heartbreaking love story. . I feel like I had a meal which had a real mixed up menu – the starter, main course and desert didn’t really blend with each other. Had they perhaps been treated individually or maybe max two genres’ at one time it could have made an impact.

The story is about a couple who is in a live-in relationship, primarily because the female protagonist, Payal, who is bohemian and completely non- traditional.   The movie starts with Maddy’s delirium over why is girlfriend had left him and is almost completely unapproachable and non-traceable. As Maddy is in the process on unveiling her whereabouts and bringing her back in to his life, the director has made interesting switches to flashbacks to confuse the motive of the breakup in the mind of the audience. The hero does find the heroine, however only to perhaps lose her again. 

Both Kangana and Imran, have played similar characters before so nothing exceptional there. The highlight for me was shankar ehsaan loy’s beautiful background score. I could have given this movie a pass, it didn’t really strike a chord with me both emotionally and logically.