New Delhi: A hit song is one of the best ways to promote a film and no one knows it better than Dibakar Banerjee but he could not convince director Kanu Behl to include one in their upcoming project “Titli”. The director-producer has always included a hit number in all his films right from his debut “Khosla Ka Ghosla” to “Byomkesh Bakshy” and he thought something like this will make his job as a producer easier in “Titli”, which is slated to release on October 30.
“I have always put a hit song in every film of mine right from ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’. It is difficult to promote a film if you don’t have a song like this. The funny thing is that ‘Titli’ has a very high intense disc sequence. I told Kanu ‘Why don’t you put a song there? I will get some marketing’. I was a ‘pakka’ producer, I wanted a song to market the movie but Kanu refused,” Dibakar told PTI.
Behl, who co-wrote Dibakar’s “Love Sex Aur Dhokha”, marks his directorial debut with the film. It has already done well in the international film festivals since its premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard Category. The “Shanghai” helmer says it was not an easy decision for him to back “Titli” because producing is a huge responsibility.
“It is a very hard-hitting film. Also, I think that just like ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’, it is very accessible and simple. The brilliance of Kanu’s film is that it has managed to say something very profound without seeming so.”
Behl was planning to make another film before “Titli” happened. The director abandoned that story despite investing a lot of time in it. Dibakar thinks that one of the tracks can still be salvaged for a movie.
