Into the realm of real love: Kangana being the hero of her films, Imran going beyond mushy romance

Kangana and Imran will be seen exploring love and related obstacles beyond first dates, chocolates and mushy romance in the film. The story of Payal and Maddy, two opposite personalities in love and making a relationship work, Katti Batti, says its director Advani, is “an unpredictable love story with an element of suspense and mystery.”

Describing the character as one of her “most crucial, intense and important roles of her career,” Kangana said this one goes beyond Datto from Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

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“In the very first scene the boy loses the girl and throughout the film, he keeps looking for clues, searching for her, convincing himself of her unconditional love for him. Katti Batti’s Payal is an extremely mysterious character and unfortunately, I cannot talk much about it for I run the risk of letting the story out,” said Kangana.

On the other hand, Imran feels he can totally relate to the characters for they represent real love and its challenges. “Our love stories end with romance, a date, roses and champagne. But the romance is short-lived and it drops wayside. What is difficult to carry on is a relationship when the romance dies,” said Imran adding how it brings out true ‘adult relationship’.

While Imran could play out his 13-year-old relationship with his wife Avantika through this film, Kangana feels that today’s generation is misled by the idea of love, packaged in ‘ice-cream and WhatsApp’. “It is important for the youth to know what commitment is, what it is to have faith when you lose everything, to see the beauty of true love against the ugliness of life,” Kangana said.

After his last film Hero bombed at the box office, Advani is confident that Katti Batti will be a success, even with the censors asking them to change Mother Teresa to Mother India in the film. He is also sure that the audience won’t make an issue about live-in or kissing because “people kiss, so we need to get over it!”

With its details and attention to love, highs and lows, Katti Batti has made Imran revisit his previous flicks, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Delhi Belly. For someone who will be seen on screen after two years, he signed this one for it was “in sync with his sensibility”. “People tend to slot films in boxes, label them, whereas I view it as a holistic experience one that appeals to,” Imran said adding that he is not threatened by the fact that Kangana might end up hogging the limelight.

Riding high on the success of Queen and Tanu Weds Manu series, Kangana is anything, but nervous about Katti Batti, a film she read on the insistence of Salman Khan and doesn’t regret at all. So sure she is of the film that she plans to blog about her experiences of researching and preparing for this character post the release. That her explosive statements and disclosures may alienate the industry from her doesn’t seem to perturb her. “I am a girl who was thrown out by her father, who is like her curly hair that can never be straightened out. I have always been candid and honest about myself and my work, so why should I be apologetic? I am the hero on the sets and I am enjoying it,” she said.