Exclusive: Venice Film Festival, Netflix and The Gotham Film & Media Institute are teaming up on a program of movies at iconic New York venue, the Paris Theater. Scroll down for program lineup in full.
Titled Venice Film Festival Presents: Next Generation, the four day event (April 20-23) will showcase films from the first ten years of La Biennale di Venezia’s Biennale College Cinema.
Screenings will be accompanied by in-depth discussions pairing new filmmakers with established directors, producers, and writers. The opening night will feature a screening of mystery-thriller Our Father, The Devil with remarks from Venice Director Alberto Barbera and Head of Programme Savina Neirotti. Indie Spirit winner Nikyatu Jusu, whose Sundance film Nanny was picked up by Amazon and Blumhouse, will serve as moderator for the opening night discussion with director Ellie Foumbi.
Biennale College Cinema is an incubator program for low-budget films by emerging filmmakers. Among...
Titled Venice Film Festival Presents: Next Generation, the four day event (April 20-23) will showcase films from the first ten years of La Biennale di Venezia’s Biennale College Cinema.
Screenings will be accompanied by in-depth discussions pairing new filmmakers with established directors, producers, and writers. The opening night will feature a screening of mystery-thriller Our Father, The Devil with remarks from Venice Director Alberto Barbera and Head of Programme Savina Neirotti. Indie Spirit winner Nikyatu Jusu, whose Sundance film Nanny was picked up by Amazon and Blumhouse, will serve as moderator for the opening night discussion with director Ellie Foumbi.
Biennale College Cinema is an incubator program for low-budget films by emerging filmmakers. Among...
- 3/30/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The incredible London Indian Film Festival, UK and Europe’s largest South Asian Film Festival, continues to screen upbeat movies on the last Sunday of each month. Cary Rajinder Sawhney MBE, Executive & Programming Director of Liff says, “After a challenging few months, we are bringing some much needed uplifting entertainment and as always our quality films offer fresh views of India and South Asia; movies that may even challenge and certainly leave you thinking.”
Featuring, as always, some brilliant films, the 3rd film in the festival’s Spring online programme is the much-loved festival hit and award-winning (32 International Awards) Hotel Salvation. The screening, for UK viewers, will take place on Sunday 25 April on Liff’s hybrid platform, www.loveliffathome.com.
A heart-warming comedy, Hotel Salvation, also known as Mukti Bhavan is a gentle charmer focussing on 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar, played by Lalit Behl, who has an ominous dream convincing him that his end is near.
Featuring, as always, some brilliant films, the 3rd film in the festival’s Spring online programme is the much-loved festival hit and award-winning (32 International Awards) Hotel Salvation. The screening, for UK viewers, will take place on Sunday 25 April on Liff’s hybrid platform, www.loveliffathome.com.
A heart-warming comedy, Hotel Salvation, also known as Mukti Bhavan is a gentle charmer focussing on 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar, played by Lalit Behl, who has an ominous dream convincing him that his end is near.
- 4/10/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
by Sayandeep Bandyopadhyay
Shubhashish Bhutiani, who is known for his critically acclaimed short film Kush, has now come up with his independent feature film “Mukti Bhawan” (Hotel Salvation). The film starring Adil Hussain and Lalit Behl digs deep in a father-son relationship. Like Kush, “Hotel Salvation” has also been welcomed with open arms by various film festivals and will close the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
“Hotel Salvation” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of events...
Shubhashish Bhutiani, who is known for his critically acclaimed short film Kush, has now come up with his independent feature film “Mukti Bhawan” (Hotel Salvation). The film starring Adil Hussain and Lalit Behl digs deep in a father-son relationship. Like Kush, “Hotel Salvation” has also been welcomed with open arms by various film festivals and will close the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
“Hotel Salvation” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of events...
- 12/6/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
by Sayandeep Bandyopadhyay
Shubhashish Bhutiani, who is known for his critically acclaimed short film Kush, has now come up with his independent feature film Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation). The film starring Adil Hussain and Lalit Behl digs deep in a father-son relationship. Like Kush, “Hotel Salvation” has also been welcomed with open arms by various film festivals and will close the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
“Hotel Salvation” screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of...
Shubhashish Bhutiani, who is known for his critically acclaimed short film Kush, has now come up with his independent feature film Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation). The film starring Adil Hussain and Lalit Behl digs deep in a father-son relationship. Like Kush, “Hotel Salvation” has also been welcomed with open arms by various film festivals and will close the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
“Hotel Salvation” screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of...
- 5/27/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Shubhashish Bhutiani, who is known for his critically acclaimed short film Kush, has now come up with his independent feature film Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation). The film starring Adil Hussain and Lalit Behl digs deep in a father-son relationship. Like Kush, “Hotel Salvation” has also been welcomed with open arms by various film festivals.
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Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of events that leave him with no other options but to go with his father to Varanasi. Rajiv, who is already facing...
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Daya (Lalit Behl), after having a nightmare, decides that his time has finally come and inspired by the dream, decides to spend the rest of his life in Varanasi, the holy city by the Ganges River, to attain inner peace. He leaves his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) with a tough choice; either to assist him on this journey or to let him leave alone, in a totally unexpected, for him, series of events that leave him with no other options but to go with his father to Varanasi. Rajiv, who is already facing...
- 2/14/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Father and son face up to mortality in this beautiful debut feature from a young Indian writer-director
Twenty-six-year-old Indian writer-director Shubhashish Bhutiani’s nimble debut feature trails Rajiv (Adil Hussain) as he accompanies his dying father Daya (Lalit Behl) to Hotel Salvation, a sort of spiritual hospice on the banks of the Ganges. Guests are permitted to stay free of charge for 15 days, in the hope that they experience “salvation” in the moments before death (marijuana-laced lassi optional). If it sounds a little bit Eat Pray Love, it is – though Bhutiani keeps a fairly tight rein on former “famous writer” Daya’s divine journey, paying more attention to the knotty dynamic between father and son. In this sense, the film works more as a kind of reverse Toni Erdmann, with Rajiv finally turning off his phone and shouldering the burden of his cantankerous father. It looks beautiful too, with night-time...
Twenty-six-year-old Indian writer-director Shubhashish Bhutiani’s nimble debut feature trails Rajiv (Adil Hussain) as he accompanies his dying father Daya (Lalit Behl) to Hotel Salvation, a sort of spiritual hospice on the banks of the Ganges. Guests are permitted to stay free of charge for 15 days, in the hope that they experience “salvation” in the moments before death (marijuana-laced lassi optional). If it sounds a little bit Eat Pray Love, it is – though Bhutiani keeps a fairly tight rein on former “famous writer” Daya’s divine journey, paying more attention to the knotty dynamic between father and son. In this sense, the film works more as a kind of reverse Toni Erdmann, with Rajiv finally turning off his phone and shouldering the burden of his cantankerous father. It looks beautiful too, with night-time...
- 8/27/2017
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s dreamy comedy-drama about a businessman embarking on a final journey with his father is smart, spellbinding and achingly relatable
This beautifully rendered Indian arthouse film, the debut of young director Shubhashish Bhutiani, enacts a subtle family comedy-drama that anyone who has spent time with an ageing parent could relate to easily.
Middle-class businessman Rajiv (Adil Hussain) lives with his wife Laila (Geetanjali Kulkarni), grownup daughter Sunita (Palomi Ghosh) and elderly father Daya (the Falstaffian Lalit Behl), a curmudgeonly former schoolteacher with whom Daya has, at best, a rocky, adversarial relationship.
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This beautifully rendered Indian arthouse film, the debut of young director Shubhashish Bhutiani, enacts a subtle family comedy-drama that anyone who has spent time with an ageing parent could relate to easily.
Middle-class businessman Rajiv (Adil Hussain) lives with his wife Laila (Geetanjali Kulkarni), grownup daughter Sunita (Palomi Ghosh) and elderly father Daya (the Falstaffian Lalit Behl), a curmudgeonly former schoolteacher with whom Daya has, at best, a rocky, adversarial relationship.
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- 8/25/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
One evening at the dinner table, Dayanand Kumar (Lalit Behl) announces to his family that he has had a dream that means his time has come, and that he needs to donate a cow and travel to the holy city of Varanasi to die.
“How can he possibly know his time is up?” asks his son Rajiv’s wife. Maybe it’s just one of those things you know when the time has come. Daya believes that a persistent and recurring dream means his death is approaching, so he heads to the Hotel Salvation in Varanasi in order to, well, achieve a final salvation. “Death is a process,” announces the proprietor of the hotel, and wonders if Daya is ready to start that final journey towards his own death. The rules at the Hotel Salvation are strict, and the time that Daya is permitted to stay is limited is fifteen days; if you die,...
“How can he possibly know his time is up?” asks his son Rajiv’s wife. Maybe it’s just one of those things you know when the time has come. Daya believes that a persistent and recurring dream means his death is approaching, so he heads to the Hotel Salvation in Varanasi in order to, well, achieve a final salvation. “Death is a process,” announces the proprietor of the hotel, and wonders if Daya is ready to start that final journey towards his own death. The rules at the Hotel Salvation are strict, and the time that Daya is permitted to stay is limited is fifteen days; if you die,...
- 6/27/2017
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan), directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, which has already won ten Indian and international film awards, has been acquired for the UK by BFI Distribution.
The film won the Prix Enrico Fulchignoni at last year’s Venice Film Festival – an award given by the International Council of Film and Television at Unesco to the Venice film that best represents the values of peace and human rights. Last weekend it won Best Film at the New York Indian Film Festival. Hotel Salvation is now a strong contender to be India’s Academy Award entry in 2018.
This gentle and tender Indian comedy follows the ordeal of an over-worked modern son forced to accompany his 77-year-old father, who is in search of salvation, to the holy city of Varanasi. The film showcases bravura performances from renowned actors Adil Hussain (Life of Pi), Lalit Behl (Titli) and Geetanjali Kulkarni (Court).
The film...
The film won the Prix Enrico Fulchignoni at last year’s Venice Film Festival – an award given by the International Council of Film and Television at Unesco to the Venice film that best represents the values of peace and human rights. Last weekend it won Best Film at the New York Indian Film Festival. Hotel Salvation is now a strong contender to be India’s Academy Award entry in 2018.
This gentle and tender Indian comedy follows the ordeal of an over-worked modern son forced to accompany his 77-year-old father, who is in search of salvation, to the holy city of Varanasi. The film showcases bravura performances from renowned actors Adil Hussain (Life of Pi), Lalit Behl (Titli) and Geetanjali Kulkarni (Court).
The film...
- 5/13/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Exclusive: C International Sales sells Indian drama to slew of territories including UK and Germany.
C International Sales has closed a slew of sales on award-winning Indian drama Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan), including deals with the BFI for the UK & Eire and Cargo Records for Germany.
The independently-produced drama, which premiered at Venice last year, has also gone to Lanterna de Pedra for Portugal, Bitter’s End for Japan, Mano Entertainment for South Korea, Ster Kinekor for South Africa, Darpan for Singapore and Cineplex for Taiwan.
The film, which also screened at Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) last year, has also been acquired by the festival for release in the Middle East. Diff is currently screening the film at its DIFF365@Vox dedicated arthouse screen at Vox Cinemas, Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.
Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, the film stars Adil Hussain (Life Of Pi) as a man whose elderly father decides it’s time to...
C International Sales has closed a slew of sales on award-winning Indian drama Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan), including deals with the BFI for the UK & Eire and Cargo Records for Germany.
The independently-produced drama, which premiered at Venice last year, has also gone to Lanterna de Pedra for Portugal, Bitter’s End for Japan, Mano Entertainment for South Korea, Ster Kinekor for South Africa, Darpan for Singapore and Cineplex for Taiwan.
The film, which also screened at Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) last year, has also been acquired by the festival for release in the Middle East. Diff is currently screening the film at its DIFF365@Vox dedicated arthouse screen at Vox Cinemas, Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.
Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, the film stars Adil Hussain (Life Of Pi) as a man whose elderly father decides it’s time to...
- 5/10/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Mukti Bhawan has been on a winning spree since the first time it was showcased at film festivals. The film was recently invited for the New York Indian Film Festival where it won the best film award, rounding up the number of awards won to a grand 10!
“Every appreciation coming our way matters. The fact that this is our first venture, being awarded the best film across the globe and nationally, means a lot to us. Having won the best special mention awards at the National awards, obviously made us we happy and now Nyiff has multiplied to that making us ecstatic. Nyiff been known to support films about India and Indian diaspora since 2001, has been actively trying to educate America and Americans about India and its people. To think our film represented our country internationally over again and won, makes us feel very proud,” enthused Sanjay Bhutiani, the producer...
“Every appreciation coming our way matters. The fact that this is our first venture, being awarded the best film across the globe and nationally, means a lot to us. Having won the best special mention awards at the National awards, obviously made us we happy and now Nyiff has multiplied to that making us ecstatic. Nyiff been known to support films about India and Indian diaspora since 2001, has been actively trying to educate America and Americans about India and its people. To think our film represented our country internationally over again and won, makes us feel very proud,” enthused Sanjay Bhutiani, the producer...
- 5/10/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
It’s over but it opened L.A.’s newest spring season of unlimited international film screenings all over the city throughout the month of April and into Cannes.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
- 4/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Mukti Bhawan has received overwhelming praise from critics and fans. It is been called a masterpiece and now it has won a National Award. Written and Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, the film stars Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Geetanjali Kulkarni, and Navninda Behl.
We have a statement from Director Shubhashish Bhutiani about his excitment on winning the special mention (feature film) for Mukti Bhawan in 64th National film awards.
“I am so honoured and thrilled to receive this award. It’s a film so close to my heart and I am so glad that Adil has been recognised. He is one of India’s best actors. It is such a wonderful coincidence that we have received this honour on the day of the films release. I hope this only encourages people to go see the film.”
He says about the film set in Varanasi, “Mukti Bhawan isn’t a story of death,...
We have a statement from Director Shubhashish Bhutiani about his excitment on winning the special mention (feature film) for Mukti Bhawan in 64th National film awards.
“I am so honoured and thrilled to receive this award. It’s a film so close to my heart and I am so glad that Adil has been recognised. He is one of India’s best actors. It is such a wonderful coincidence that we have received this honour on the day of the films release. I hope this only encourages people to go see the film.”
He says about the film set in Varanasi, “Mukti Bhawan isn’t a story of death,...
- 4/8/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Mukti Bhawan
Starring Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Navninda Behl.
Written & Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani
24 is too young to think about death, let alone make a melancholic meditative movie on mortality. Debutant Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Mukti Bhawan sweeps us into a world where death is not the end but a release into a realm of imperishable freedom.
Or Moksha, if you will.
Crafted with the care of a jeweller working on a specially intricate piece, the director brings to life the most precious and vital truth about death. As he takes us, along with his two protagonists, on a journey to the holy city of death Varanasi, the film somewhere along its resplendent route to salvation, becomes a treatise on life as defined by the inevitability of death.
Like all the most important directors of the world from Satyajit Ray to Ritesh Batra, Bhutani has a keen eye for detail.
Starring Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Navninda Behl.
Written & Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani
24 is too young to think about death, let alone make a melancholic meditative movie on mortality. Debutant Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Mukti Bhawan sweeps us into a world where death is not the end but a release into a realm of imperishable freedom.
Or Moksha, if you will.
Crafted with the care of a jeweller working on a specially intricate piece, the director brings to life the most precious and vital truth about death. As he takes us, along with his two protagonists, on a journey to the holy city of death Varanasi, the film somewhere along its resplendent route to salvation, becomes a treatise on life as defined by the inevitability of death.
Like all the most important directors of the world from Satyajit Ray to Ritesh Batra, Bhutani has a keen eye for detail.
- 4/7/2017
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Here’s an interesting story about how Palomi Ghosh landed her part in Mukti Bhawan! When Palomi mustered courage to sing for A R Rahman in front of a packed audience at Iffi Goa, she didn’t know she was about to sign a film thanks to the courage she showed, “For someone who passed her university years in North Carolina State University singing covers of A R Rahman songs I never thought I would ever get the chance to be in the same room as the God himself. But I couldn’t let the chance of speaking with him, albeit in a jam-packed auditorium. So I asked him ‘What would it take to work with him?’ he responded in his quiet voice, ‘surprise me!’, so I tried. I sang a Konkani-jazz number from my film Nachom-ia Kumpasar (Palomi bagged the special jury, National Award for the film) and he promptly said ‘Taken!
- 3/25/2017
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
While news of some big studios shutting shop for local productions may be creating frown lines for the film industry, there’s a completely different breed of young Indie filmmakers who seem to have cracked a different code to circumvent these cash crunches. In their own search and struggle to work against the budgeting odds involved in movie-making, these young guns are redefining the Indian film business like never before. And one of the most promising names from this growing tribe is the 25-year-old National Award winning director Shubhashish Bhutiani, whose debut feature film ‘Mukti Bhawan’ (‘Hotel Salvation’) is all set for a world premiere at the upcoming International Venice Film Festival. Interestingly though this Indie film is rooted in India and at its core a story which is extremely universal in appeal.
Having earned a National Award, besides a spot in the race for the Oscars with his very...
Having earned a National Award, besides a spot in the race for the Oscars with his very...
- 9/14/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Bhutiani: 'I knew I never wanted to make a film that felt philosophical or spiritual because being in that space and talking to people, I found a very human quality to it' Photo: Courtesy of Venice Biennale College Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) tells the story of a son (Adil Hussain), who reluctantly takes his father (Lalit Behl) to the holy city of Varsani, when he becomes convinced that it is time to die. His character-driven comedy drama charts the impact the move to the titular hotel – where residents are intended to check out permanently within 15 days - has on the pair’s relationship and the reverberations it causes in the rest of their family. Bhutiani’s film was one of four selected for this year’s Biennale College at Venice Film Festival (read about last year’s Biennale films here) – which pushes microbudget films from development through...
- 9/7/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
London-based sales company takes on Kanu Behl’s Un Certain Regard selection.
WestEnd Films has boarded Kanu Behl‘s Titli ahead of its launch during Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.
Tiltl is co-produced by Yash Raj Films and cult Indian producer/director Dibakar Banerjee‘s production house Dbp.
The cast features Ranveer Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl, Shivani Raghuvanshi and newcomer Shashank Arora.
The story is about a young man trying to escape the violent family business in Delhi’s underbelly.
Fabien Westerhoff, head of sales at WestEnd Films, said: “Titli is the kind of punch-in-the-gut movie that stays with you long after the credits have rolled.
“The tension builds up from the first scenes and will keep audiences on the edge of their seats worldwide. Following the success of The Lunchbox, there is an exciting new frontier of Indian filmmakers, and Kanu is an incredible new voice, ready to burst out onto the international scene”.
Behl...
WestEnd Films has boarded Kanu Behl‘s Titli ahead of its launch during Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.
Tiltl is co-produced by Yash Raj Films and cult Indian producer/director Dibakar Banerjee‘s production house Dbp.
The cast features Ranveer Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl, Shivani Raghuvanshi and newcomer Shashank Arora.
The story is about a young man trying to escape the violent family business in Delhi’s underbelly.
Fabien Westerhoff, head of sales at WestEnd Films, said: “Titli is the kind of punch-in-the-gut movie that stays with you long after the credits have rolled.
“The tension builds up from the first scenes and will keep audiences on the edge of their seats worldwide. Following the success of The Lunchbox, there is an exciting new frontier of Indian filmmakers, and Kanu is an incredible new voice, ready to burst out onto the international scene”.
Behl...
- 4/21/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
London based sales company takes on Kanu Behl’s Un Certain Regard selection.
WestEnd Films has boarded Kanu Behl‘s Tilti ahead of its launch during Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.
Tiltl is co-produced by Yash Raj Films and cult Indian producer/director Dibakar Banerjee‘s production house Dbp.
The cast features Ranveer Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl, Shivani Raghuvanshi and newcomer Shashank Arora.
The story is about a young man trying to escape the violent family business in Delhi’s underbelly.
Fabien Westerhoff, Head of Sales WestEnd Films, said: “Titli is the kind of punch-in-the-gut movie that stays with you long after the credits have rolled. The tension builds up from the first scenes and will keep audiences on the edge of their seats worldwide. Following the success of The Lunchbox, there is an exciting new frontier of Indian filmmakers, and Kanu is an incredible new voice, ready to burst out onto the international scene”.
Behl...
WestEnd Films has boarded Kanu Behl‘s Tilti ahead of its launch during Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.
Tiltl is co-produced by Yash Raj Films and cult Indian producer/director Dibakar Banerjee‘s production house Dbp.
The cast features Ranveer Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl, Shivani Raghuvanshi and newcomer Shashank Arora.
The story is about a young man trying to escape the violent family business in Delhi’s underbelly.
Fabien Westerhoff, Head of Sales WestEnd Films, said: “Titli is the kind of punch-in-the-gut movie that stays with you long after the credits have rolled. The tension builds up from the first scenes and will keep audiences on the edge of their seats worldwide. Following the success of The Lunchbox, there is an exciting new frontier of Indian filmmakers, and Kanu is an incredible new voice, ready to burst out onto the international scene”.
Behl...
- 4/21/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
T itli is one of the five projects selected for the Work In Progress Lab of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Kanu Behl:
Kanu Behl
Tell us about your project. What language is it in?
Titli wants to run away from his oppressive, older brother Vikram and wrangle out a life all his own. He plots, plans, cheats, lies – almost managing to escape – before getting caught. Promptly, he’s married off to Neelu, to tie him down ‘into the family way’. A hapless Titli discovers an unlikely ally in Neelu, who has a set of her own quashed dreams. Together, they form a strange, mutually beneficial partnership. Until things start to go wrong, and Titli comes face to face with the oppressor rooted deep within himself.
It is a film about family, oppression, images of people passed on in circularity – all looked at through the mirror of...
Kanu Behl
Tell us about your project. What language is it in?
Titli wants to run away from his oppressive, older brother Vikram and wrangle out a life all his own. He plots, plans, cheats, lies – almost managing to escape – before getting caught. Promptly, he’s married off to Neelu, to tie him down ‘into the family way’. A hapless Titli discovers an unlikely ally in Neelu, who has a set of her own quashed dreams. Together, they form a strange, mutually beneficial partnership. Until things start to go wrong, and Titli comes face to face with the oppressor rooted deep within himself.
It is a film about family, oppression, images of people passed on in circularity – all looked at through the mirror of...
- 11/19/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
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