Excerpts from reviews of Katti Batti:
Nikhil Advani’s mish-mash of several Hollywood rom-coms, including (500) Days of Summer and Of Love and Other Drugs, saves its final insights into modern romance for the last act, which introduces a twist and replaces the shaky humour with sentimentality aimed at making the handkerchief travel out of the pocket and towards the eye sockets.
The deeply overstretched and addled screenplay clocks 128 minutes. In terms of its depiction of the central relationship, its plasticky production design, and adult characters who are adolescent at heart, Katti Batti is firmly in the 1990s Bollywood mould.
– Nandini Ramnath (Scroll.in)
Imran Khan is sincere. Kangana has by now proved that she’s a brilliant actress, but here she seems to be faltering a bit as if she is desperately looking for a firm footing in terms of a convincing character. And then she shines in the last ten minutes of the film, yet again leaving us in no doubt about what she is capable of. In fact, the last ten odd minutes of the film keeps you hooked to the screen. But obviously that is not enough at all.
– Shubha Shetty Saha (Mid-day.com)
Tiresome and inane, there are few redeeming qualities in Katti Batti although Khan tries valiantly to salvage the film. That Khan and Ranaut look mismatched and have absolutely no chemistry doesn’t help Katti Batti’s cause. Khan with his age-defying, boyish good looks is convincing as the college-going Maddy. Despite the absurdity of the script, this is one of Khan’s better performances even though he lacks charisma. Ranaut has a couple of scenes where she gets to act, but all Advani really needs her to do as Payal is wear outlandish clothes and sport hair that looks unnatural on her head.
– Deepanjana Pal (Firstpost.com)
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