Imran Khan talks about Katti Batti
Bollywood actor Imran Khan, who is going to back on the silver screen after almost two years, is out and about to promote his upcoming film Katti Batti which also stars Kangana Ranaut. He speaks about an array of things.
No expectations
You never know what to expect because that’s the reality of our business. For me, I have no sort of expectations. But it’s one of the rare films where I know that I’m satisfied. There are so many variables and so many degrees of separation from the script to the day that the film releases that very often things get out of your hand and out of control and you end up with a film which you look at and be like ‘this is not what I signed for or this isn’t what I was planning.’ Katti Batti is one of those rare films which has turned out to be exactly what I’d hoped. I can look at the film from the beginning to the end and there is not a frame that seems out of place to me. There was not a moment that I say, ‘I wish I could fix this or I wish I could change that’. So that way your personal satisfaction is very rare. I’ve had it a couple of times, I felt that way about Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Delhi Belly and also Ek Main Aur Ek Tu. So getting that feeling is quite lovely.
Aamir’s advice
Aamir had a very interesting point and this is something that developed without even us realising it. Nikhil and my tendency is a little more urban, so in our making the film natural and organic, a lot of English lines came in. Aamir had said something interesting that out story, our emotional thread is very broad-based, it’s not an urban sentiment. So if people understand all the dialogues, they’ll all like it. He said that you are excluding an audience just because you’re saying things in a language they don’t understand. He then left it to our choice. We’d already shot it, so while dubbing we’ve tweaked some of the lines into Hindi. It had not occurred to Nikhil or me and it’s these little things which make a difference between all of us watching it and liking it and my driver actually watching it and getting all of it.
