Titli (English: Butterfly) is a 2014 Bollywood drama film directed by Kanu Behl and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner ofYash Raj Films and Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt. Ltd. It features actors Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora, Lalit Behland Shivani Raghuvanshi in the lead roles. The International sales partner is Westend Films The film is expected to release at the end of the year 2014.
The directorial debut film was selected to take part in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The only other Indian film selected for the year was an animation short
In the badlands of Delhi's underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood, plots a desperate bid to escape the illegal 'family' business and an oppressive brother. His schemes are thwarted by his unruly brothers, who marry him off 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. Cast Shashank Arora as Titli Ranvir Shorey as Vikram Amit Sial as Pradeep Lalit Behl as Daddy Shivani Raghuvanshi as Neelu Production Development Behl co-wrote and also assisted director Dibakar Banerjee in Love Sex aur Dhokha (2010), started writing Titli as the film was towards completion. In 2011, a news report on a car jackers gang in Delhi led by a local goon, Joginder Joga, inspired him to start developing the story of a thriller. However, he developed the script, other themes started joining in, from his personal experiences growing up in city.[5] Though, he denied it being autobiographical, he mentioned the idea of intra-family conflict was derived from his own conflict 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." 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.[8] Here it also won an award for Best Work-In-Progress Lab Project and was selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, where Cannes Film Festival selection committee first saw the film. Filming For the lead roles, relative newcomers Shashank Arora and Shivani Raghuvanshi were selected, as the director didn't want scene "acted-out". Actors Amit Sial and Ranvir Shorey were chosen to play role of two elder brothers. 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 his early life experiences.[5] The film was shot on various locations in Delhi.[6] 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 claustrophobic feel to the family home, where much of the filming was done. Also 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. Till early May, post-production was being completed ahead
of its Cannes premiere in the same month.
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