Behl , who co-wrote and also assisted director Dibakar Banerjee in '' Love Sex aur Dhokha ( LSD ) '' ( 2010 ) , started writing '' Titli '' as '' LSD '' neared completion . In 2011 , the news report of a car-jacker gang in Delhi led by a local goon , Joginder Joga , inspired him to start working on the story of a thriller . However , as he developed the script , other themes started joining in , from his personal experiences growing up in the city . Though he denied it being autobiographical , he mentioned in an interview that the idea of intra-family conflict was derived from his own clashes with his father as a rebellious teenager . He eventually co-wrote the script with Sharat Katariya , and it covered themes of patriarchy , family dysfunction , gender-based violence and oppression , and " a desire for freedom " . Through the protagonist , the film also explores the circular nature of life – " how we often end up becoming exactly the person we are trying to run away from . " In 2012 , the script of the film was selected for NFDC Film Bazaar 's Screenwriter 's Lab and won the '' Post-Production Award '' at Film Bazaar 's Work-In-Progress Lab in 2013 . Here it also won an award for '' Best Work-In-Progress Lab Project '' and was selected for '' Film Bazaar Recommends '' , where the 2014 Cannes Film Festival selection committee first saw the film
2014 Cannes Film Festival
2014 Cannes Film Festival
Titli (2014 film)