Titli features Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi.
New Delhi:
The name Titli may pale next to such fabled ones as Aishwarya and Sonam, but it's the reason Indians are looking forward to this year's Cannes Film Festival, starting today. Titli, directed by Love Sex Aur Dhokha writer Kanu Behl and produced by Dibakar Banerjee, will be competing in the Un Certain Regard category with 19 other films from across the globe.
Dibakar, for one, has been called out for being blasé about making it too Cannes, but the Khosla Ka Ghosla director begs to differ. (Also read:The History of India at Cannes )
"Not at all, I didn't mean it that at all. I have been asked personally that are you excited to go to Cannes? I am saying, I am not as much excited to go to Cannes as I am excited about Titli going to Cannes. Because if a film like Titli is chosen then I am very hopeful about the kind of films that will represent India in premiere festivals because we really need personal visions, true visions and Indian narratives which are free of derivative images to kind of speak for India. And very thankfully for the last three-four years, that has been happening and I am very proud to be associated with something like Titli which I believe is very original, whatever it is. That's what I am happy about, " Dibakar told NDTV.
First time director Kanu Behl said, "We have been too busy just finishing the film, just completing the film. I have been constantly in the sound mix and the process of finishing the film has been the long one. So, more than anything else it's the exhaustion and the relief of finishing the film and the whole concentration has been to make it as good as we possibly can before we go there. That's a really really personal film and it comes straight from the heart. And hopefully, the honesty shows through. There's going to be a wonderful set of 20 films there which are going to be some of the best films from all around the world. So, yes, fingers crossed." (Also read:Titli will put Indian cinema on global map: Guneet Monga )
Titli features Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi.
Dibakar, for one, has been called out for being blasé about making it too Cannes, but the Khosla Ka Ghosla director begs to differ. (Also read:The History of India at Cannes )
"Not at all, I didn't mean it that at all. I have been asked personally that are you excited to go to Cannes? I am saying, I am not as much excited to go to Cannes as I am excited about Titli going to Cannes. Because if a film like Titli is chosen then I am very hopeful about the kind of films that will represent India in premiere festivals because we really need personal visions, true visions and Indian narratives which are free of derivative images to kind of speak for India. And very thankfully for the last three-four years, that has been happening and I am very proud to be associated with something like Titli which I believe is very original, whatever it is. That's what I am happy about, " Dibakar told NDTV.
First time director Kanu Behl said, "We have been too busy just finishing the film, just completing the film. I have been constantly in the sound mix and the process of finishing the film has been the long one. So, more than anything else it's the exhaustion and the relief of finishing the film and the whole concentration has been to make it as good as we possibly can before we go there. That's a really really personal film and it comes straight from the heart. And hopefully, the honesty shows through. There's going to be a wonderful set of 20 films there which are going to be some of the best films from all around the world. So, yes, fingers crossed." (Also read:Titli will put Indian cinema on global map: Guneet Monga )
Titli features Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi.
