Kangana Ranaut and Imran Khan at an event in Mumbai.
Director Nikhil Advani said that he had to work very hard to get his dream cast of Imran Khan and Kangana Ranaut for his latest film
Katti Batti.
"The first person to come in my mind for the role of Maddy was Imran Khan. I didn't want anyone else. I just wanted him," the director said at a press conference on the trailer launch of
Katti Batti.
Katti Batti is an urban rom-com between two very different people, in which a sudden turn of events creates a distance between them.
The filmmaker said, "Imran read the script and said it is rubbish. I said, 'please let me narrate it to you', and we went to his place, I narrated him the story, and then he said, 'yes it is very different now', and agreed to do it."
The
Kal Ho Na Ho director said
Queen actress Kangana Ranaut also took her time, but finally made her mind to get onboard.
"And thanks to Kangana Ranaut. I remember after two hours of narration, she said, 'we should try this, we should try that'. And when she said 'we', I thanked god, because she said yes," Nikhil said.
Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapoor and Nikhil Advani under the banner of UTV Motion Pictures and Emmay Entertainment,
Katti Batti is scheduled to release on September 18.