Titli (2014 film)
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| Directed by | Kanu Behl |
| Produced by | Aditya Chopra Dibakar Banerjee |
| Written by | Sharat Katariya Kanu Behl |
| Starring | Ranvir Shorey Amit Sial Shashank Arora Lalit Behl Shivani Raghuvanshi |
| Cinematography | Siddharth Diwan |
| Edited by | Namrata Rao |
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Yash Raj Films & Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt. Ltd.
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| Distributed by | Westend Films |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Titli (English: Butterfly) is a 2014 Bollywood drama film written and directed by Kanu Behl, co-produced by Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt. Ltd and Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films.[1] It features actors Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi in the lead roles.
The International sales partner is Westend Films. In Titli,
Behl captures the volatility of a society where violence lies uneasily
just below the surface. The directorial debut film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival,[2][3] The trailer of the movie was released on September 29, 2015.[4][5][6][7] The film was released in India on October 30, 2015.[8]
The film was Nominated for Caméra d'Or at 2014 Cannes Film Festival[9] The film won the Critics Prize at FIFIB, Bordeaux, Best Film at Seattle South Asian Film Festival,[10] NETPAC Award at Hawaii International Film Festival, Best Film at SAIFF, New York,[11]Best International Film at Malatya International, Turkey,[12] Best Actress and Best Film, Gijón International Film Festival, Spain,[13] and the Audience Award at Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif (FFAST), Paris.[14]
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 3.1 Development
- 3.2 Filming
- 4 International Film Festivals attended
- 5 Awards
- 6 Box Office
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Plot
In the badlands of Delhi's dystopic underbelly, Titli, the youngest
member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood, plots a desperate bid to
escape the 'family' business. His struggle to do so is countered at each
stage by his indignant brothers, who finally try marrying him off to
'settle' him down. Titli, finds an unlikely ally in his new wife,though
she is caught in her own web of warped reality and dysfunctional dreams.
They form a strange, beneficial partnership, only to confront their
inability to escape the bindings of their family roots. But, is escape
the same as freedom?
Cast
- Shashank Arora as Titli
- Ranvir Shorey as Vikram
- Amit Sial as Pradeep
- Lalit Behl as Daddy
- Prashant Singh as Prince
- Shivani Raghuvanshi as Neelu
Production
Development
Behl, who co-wrote and also assisted director Dibakar Banerjee in Love Sex aur Dhokha (LSD) (2010), started writing Titli as LSD
neared completion. In 2011, the news report of a car-jacker gang in
Delhi led by a local goon, Joginder Joga, inspired him to start working
on the story of a thriller. However, as he developed the script, other
themes started joining in, from his personal experiences growing up in
the city.[15]
Though he denied it being autobiographical, he mentioned in an
interview that the idea of intra-family conflict was derived from his
own clashes with his father as a rebellious teenager. He eventually
co-wrote the script with Sharat Katariya, and it covered themes of
patriarchy, family dysfunction, gender-based violence and oppression,
and "a desire for freedom". Through the protagonist, the film also
explores the circular nature of life – "how we often end up becoming
exactly the person we are trying to run away from."[16][17]
In 2012, the script of the film was selected for NFDC Film Bazaar's Screenwriter's Lab and won the Post-Production Award at Film Bazaar's Work-In-Progress Lab in 2013.[18] Here it also won an award for Best Work-In-Progress Lab Project and was selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, where the 2014 Cannes Film Festival selection committee first saw the film.[15]
Filming
For the lead roles, relative newcomers Shashank Arora and Shivani Raghuvanshi were selected, as the director didn't want scenes "acted-out". Actors Amit Sial and Ranvir Shorey
were chosen to play the role of two elder brothers to Titli's
character. Next, he decided to cast his own father Lalit Behl, who is a
Delhi-based director and actor, for the role of the patriarch of the
family, considering the film itself was based on his early life
experiences.[15]
The film was shot across various locations in Delhi.[16]
During filming, he allowed the actors to explore the scenes and
improvise as no scripts were brought to the set. The production team
redesigned a house to give a claustrophobic feel to the family home,
where much of the filming was done, to provide a contrast from the
expansive real world outside, which the protagonist is trying to escape
into. For this purpose, rooms were made smaller, the entrance was made
labyrinthine, and even the natural light was reduced in the rooms, so
that the tube light haze could add to the effect.[15]
By early May 2014, the movie's post-production was completed, ahead of its Cannes premiere due in the same month.[17]
International Film Festivals attended
- 2014 Cannes Film Festival[19]
- 5th Beijing International Film Festival[20]
- 13th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles[21]
- Melbourne International Film Festival[22]
- Rio de Janeiro International
- International Film Festival of Colombo
- Zurich Film Festival[23]
- Filmfest Hamburg[24]
- Festival international du film indépendant de Bordeaux (FIFIB)
- BFI London Film Festival[25]
- Chicago International Film Festival[26]
- Philadelphia Film Festival
- Seattle South Asian Film Festival[10]
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival (SFISAFF) by 3rd-i Films
- AFI Fest, Los Angeles
- South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF), New York[11]
- Black Movie Festival, Geneva
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands[27]
- Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden[28]
- Festival du film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif (FFAST), Paris
- Gijón International Film Festival, Spain[13]
Awards
- Nominated for Caméra d'Or at 2014 Cannes Film Festival[29]
- Critics Prize at FIFIB, Bordeaux
- Best Film at Seattle South Asian Film Festival[10]
- NETPAC Award at Hawaii International Film Festival
- Best Film at SAIFF, New York[11]
- Best International Film at Malatya International, Turkey[30]
- Best Actress and Best Film, Gijón International Film Festival, Spain[13]
- Audience Award at Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif (FFAST), Paris[31]
Box Office
The film collected ₹1.75 crore (US$260,000) nett in its first week.[32]
See also
- Variety: http://variety.com/2014/film/festivals/cannes-film-review-titli-1201198314/
- Screen Daily: http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/titli/5072243.article
- The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/titli-cannes-review-705883
- 4:3: http://fourthreefilm.com/2014/08/titli/
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