In 2014, Kanu Behl hit hard with
Titli, an Indian chronicle
, selected at the Cannes Film Festival (Un certain regard). With Anurag Kashyap's thrillers (
Gangs of Wasseypur
,
Ugly
),
Titli
showed another side of India, far from the enchantments of Bollywood. Its hero was trying to survive a crooked police force and a family of thugs, brutal carjackers, under the thumb of a villainous father.
Ten years later, Kanu Behl doesn't pull any punches with
Agra
, a family portrait and social picture of India that's hardly more upbeat, also presented at Cannes (Cinemmakers' Fortnight). For a tourist, Agra is famous for the Taj Mahal. For an Indian, it is also the city where the largest psychiatric asylum in the country is located. The viewer very quickly has doubts about Guru's mental health. The young man imagines flirting with Mala, one of his colleagues with whom he is madly in love. His hallucinations take a more nightmarish turn when he fornicates with a giant squirrel on…
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