Mumbai based filmmaker Kanu Behl is making his
feature film debut with ‘Titli’, a movie about the youngest member of a
car-jacking brotherhood attempting to escape his oppressive family. Behl has
previously directed documentaries and worked as a writer and assistant director
with Dibakar Banerjee who is also a co-producer of ‘Titli’ along with Yash Raj
Films.
Starring Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial and Shashank Arora,
‘Titli’ premiered at the Un Certain Regards section at the Cannes Film
Festival. ‘Titli’ in Kanu’s words is quite a personal film; he has been working
with Dibakar since 2007 and while working on another script, he pitched the
idea of this film to Dibakar. He was told by his mentor that the idea wasn’t
coming from the inside. This made Kanu Behl reassess his script with his
co-writer Sharat Katariya, writing a film about a younger brother oppressed by
an older brother who is violent and oppressive because his father might have
been like that.
It was a tough film to shoot as they shot in Delhi
in the peak of summers when the temperature would reach around 46 degrees. The
style of shooting the film was innovative too as the actors were given the
freedom they needed and Kanu and his DOP Siddharth just danced around them to
catch the moment. Having Yash Raj Films on board along with Dibakar’s name
attached to it has given ‘Titli’ the kind of credibility they needed to make a
film fearlessly.
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