Anjali's blog: I'm afraid Katti Batti might bomb at the box office!

Now before, all you Kangana Ranaut fanatics jump at me for bringing her movie down, let me start by saying I love Kangana Ranaut. Smacking performances in Queen and Tanu weds Manu made me her fan. But I’m worried Katti Batti won’t do so well. Looking at the trailers, I’m afraid, this one won’t be a feather in her crown! I mean this movie has,

Imran Khan as Imran Khan

He has done more than 15 movies and yet unfortunately looks the same in EVERY one of them. Yes, the moustache in Once upon a time in Mumbai was the closest he got to changing up his look. In Katti Batti, he is playing the same urban upper middle class next door lover boy.

Imran Khan doing Imran Khan stuff

As if it wasn’t enough to see him essaying the same roles. He is even repeating his scenes. I mean look at his nose patch

Left-Ek mai aur ek tu ,Right-Katti Batti

and his weeping over a girl

I hate luv stories

Katti Batti

and his running at the airport!

Janne tu ya Jaane na

Katti Batti

A Crazy girl

Whether it is hyper high on life Geet(Jab we met), excited and daring Akira(Jab tak hai jaan), Veronica in Cocktail, Dimple (mere brother ki dulhan) or Heer kaul ( Rockstar). The carefree and fuck-the-patriarchy new age character has been done over and over again, more so in the recent movies. While Kangana as Imran might do great justice to their roles, even with Kangana’s changing hair dos, it remains far from anything new.

Living together scene

This area of relationship also has been done in movies a lot of times. I hope they don’t dwell on this angle too much as we have witnessed both the good and ugly side of living together with Saathiya ,Chalte Chalte etc

Commitment phobic character

Probably a long shot, but do you remember Tusshar Kapoor’s role in Kya Dil Ne Kaha , Saif in Salaam Namaste ,Parineeti –Sushant in Shudh Desi Romance . They all had the same problem, the fear of commitment .Kangana in Katti Batti seems to be going through similar troubles reaching up to her not knowing the spelling of commitment!

The Ultimate accident

Another formula done till death for the Indian audience is the -big accident. This is the crucial juncture where the movie couples’ happy times go for a toss.Jab tak hai jaan was not to long ago. Katti Batti seems to be applying this same technique and that is what makes me go Meh!

500 inspiration

Many people have compared the movie’s trailer to the Hollywood movie 500 days of summer and even though it is not right to do that before the release of the film (this article is doing just that :P) the similarities of the boy pining for the girl, girl not ready for the commitment , friends as advisers and ‘not a love story’ tagline , doesn’t fair well for the uniqueness.

See the tiny similarities yourself!