Titli
Director: Kanu Behl
India | Hindi
2014 | 117min | Colour
Subtitles: English
Thursday, Nov 5 TIPA, 6:00 PM
* Guests to be seated by 5:45 PM
In the badlands of Delhi’s underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood, plots a desperate bid to escape the ‘family’ business. His schemes are thwarted by his unruly brothers, who marry him o against his will. But Titli finds an unlikely ally in his new wife, Neelu, who nurtures her own frustrated dreams. They form a strange, mutually exploitative pact to break the stranglehold of their family roots. But is escape the same as freedom?
Kanu Behl
After dabbling in radio, copywriting, acting and theatre, Kanu Behl studied at the Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute, Kolkata, majoring in Film Direction. His first documentary landed in competition at Cinema du Reel. Next, he directed and produced three more documentaries for NHK Japan, ZDF and ARTE. In 2007, he dove into fiction as an assistant director to Dibakar Banerjee on the critically acclaimed feature Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. In 2010, he co-wrote Love, Sex aur Dhokha with Dibakar Banerjee. The film brought him recognition as a voice of note. Titli is his first feature as a writer/director.
Credits
Director: Kanu Behl
Producer: Dibakar Banerjee
Cinematographer: Siddharth Diwan
Screenwriters: Sharat Katariya, Kanu Behl
Editor: Namrata Rao
Sound: Pritam Das
Production Company: Yash Raj Films
Cast: Shashank Arora, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl
Festival Appearances & Awards
Festival du Film d’Asie du Sud Transgressif, Paris 2015 – Audience Award
Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux 2014 – Critics Prize
Seattle South Asian Film Festival 2014 – Best Film
Hawaii International Film Festival 2014 – NETPAC Award
South Asian International Film Festival, New York 2014 – Best Film
Malatya International Film Festival, Turkey 2014 – Best International Film
Gijón International Film Festival, Spain 2014 – Best Actress and Best Film
Cannes Film Festival 2014
