Kangana Batti Character Analysis

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After a series of well- written scripts, it is the film that will test the star power of Kangana.

Katti Batti could have been an important film. Designed to exploit Kangana Ranaut’s rebellious image, it is a film which examines the perks of a live-in relationship. It is also a film which tries to put a girl in control of the relationship. In a role reversal of sorts, she wants the relationship to be a time pass when the boy is looking for eternal love. When he talks of values, the lissom lass doesn’t want to be a lesson in moral science. Here the boy uses phrases like main ghabra gaya tha while the girl has the acumen to hide her pain so that her man doesn't suffer.

Unfortunately, director Nikhil Advani fails to package; the word they use for kneading narratives these days, his intentions for the second week in a row. If Hero was close to zero, it does marginally better because of the covalence between the lead players.

There is an emotional
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She obviously comes from an elite fractured family. She moves into his house but after five years of bonding one day she leaves him. As Maddy goes looking for answers, he faces questions from within and without. Many of their actions look crazy but then Advani wants us to believe that this generation is like that. A little childish, a little crazy. This explains the title. Perhaps that’s why we have a song called “Main Sirphara, Tu Sirphiri” (I am crazy, you are crazy) in the film.

But then when a film that is being positioned as a rebel among the tribe of rom coms, only pushes stereotypes and tries to manipulate tear ducts towards the end for a few ounces of sympathy, it irks. A caricature of South Indian boss, a society of frustrated lovers, a turtle as a pet, the script is replete with situations which have ceased to be funny for many years now. The saving grace is that the turtle is called

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