1. Bareilly Ki Barfi : Bitti Mishra, played with endearing vivacity by Kriti Sanon, is no Sati Savitri. Thank God for small-town mercies! In fact she adheres to another kind of stereotyping that Hindi cinema has lately embraced. You know, the small town girl who is hip and happy, sassy and attractive, rides two-wheelers and smokes whenever she can get her hands on a cancer stick, and when a prospective groom asks her if she is a virgin Bitti retorts, “No I am not… are you?” Kriti is spunky and in-character even in the scenes where she is not the centre of attraction.
2. Lukka Chuppi: Guddu and Rashmi, two Mathura-based tv journalists, get hitched, fall in love and decide to give ‘live-in’ a chance before settling in permanently. Guddu wants to do “everything” that live-in couples do. Rashmi isn’t biting the bait. But they do end up in bed and soon she whispers the four magic words, “Do we have protection?”. Guddu is ready with an assortment of condoms. Pyar kiya toh dalna kya? Kartik Aryan is endearingly guileless and eager to score, while Kriti Sanon is more worldly-wise and slightly annoying in her will to be the dominant partner. Together the couple is a scream.Albeit a stifled one.
3. Panipat: The relationships in Ashutosh Gowariker’s non-hysterical historical are delicately drawn, none more so than the one between Sadashiv Rao Bhau and his feisty wife Parvati.He is a doting loving protective husband. She insists on accompanying him to battle with an I-will-get-bored-alone logic.Kriti Sanon is a revelation as Parvati. Not only does she have a solid part to play in the drama, she plays it with such disarming intensity , her eyes often tell a thousand untold stories. Kriti simply owns her role.
4. Raabta: There is something about Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon’s togetherness, something attractive without really getting into the bed or talking dirty the way Ranveer Singh and Vani Kapoor did in the wretched Befikre, which for all practical purposes, has a sexual pun tucked away the ‘fikre’. Kriti Sanon is remarkably free of inhibition. She exudes a morning-fresh dewiness even in the sweatiest of situation. And it can’t get any sweatier than this: Sushant’s best friend Varun Sharma (the new Shakti Kapor in town) hooks up with a plump and parodic soothsayer who looks at Ms Sanon and grunts, ‘You don’t get much sleep. You are haunted by nightmares’… Sanon looks right back. If she can stare down Sushant’s mock-leeriness, what is a funny-looking card reader?
5. Mimi: As a surrogate-mom left in the lurch Kriti Sanon is the best thing to happen to this womb-com. As a womb for hire Kriti reminded me of Shabana Azmi in Doosri Dulhan and earlier on, Barbara Hershey in The Babymaker. The film shows Sanon has a long way to before she slips up.