The Extended Canon
Titli
तितली · 2014
The youngest brother in a Delhi carjacking family wants out, and marries into a plan that traps him further.
- Director
- Kanu Behl
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Shashank Arora, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Ranvir Shorey
Why it's in the canon
Premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard. The most claustrophobic portrait of Indian masculinity on film.
The youngest brother in a Delhi carjacking family wants out, and marries into a plan that traps him further.
Titli sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
If you liked this