Titli (2014 film)

Titli English Butterfly is a 2015 Bollywood drama film written and directed by Kanu Behl, coproduced by Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt. Ltd and Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. It features actors Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi in the lead roles.

Behl, who cowrote 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 carjacker 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. Though he denied it being autobiographical, he mentioned in an interview that the idea of intrafamily conflict was derived from his own clashes with his father as a rebellious teenager. He eventually cowrote the script with Sharat Katariya, and it covered themes of patriarchy, family dysfunction, genderbased 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 Bazaars Screenwriters Lab and won the PostProduction Award at Film Bazaars WorkInProgress Lab in 2013. Here it also won an award for Best WorkInProgress Lab Project and was selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, where the 2014 Cannes Film Festival selection committee first saw the film. ........

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