In 2017, the journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru. “I saw this as a Faustian exploration of one man’s actions, “ says Behl, who holds Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View and All the President’s Men—masterworks of the paranoid press procedural—in high regard. “Despatch is probably the maximum sex I’ve had on screen,” …
Kanu Behl’s first film as director, Titli, a searing portrait of a East Delhi family, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, and released in India in 2015. Around October-November 2016 is when the film really started taking shape and I started writing something closer to what the film is now. And we took some time with post, because …
