Agra

Cast: MOHIT AGARWAL,PRIYANKA BOSE

Year Of The Film: 2023

Language: Hindi

Length: 2 hour 15 minutes

Premiere status:

Cannes Film Festival, France
Synopsis:

Guru, a young man in his twenties, works in a call center in Agra. In love with Mala, a work colleague, he stills lives with his parents, whose house is divided in two parts. Guru lives on the ground floor with his mother while his father is upstairs with his mistress. when Guru announces that he wants to marry Mala, and make the terrace of the house his future bedroom, nothing goes as planned. Frustrations, faults and family hatreds come to light, symptoms of an Indian patriarchal society with many taboos.

Director : Kanu Behl

Kanu Behl studied at the Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute, where he got a degree in filmmaking. His first documentary, AN ACTOR PREPARES(2006, produced by SRFTI, India) was in competition at the Cinéma du Réel in Paris in 2007.He then produced and directed three other documentaries for NHK in Japan, ZDF and ARTE in Germany : FOUNDHIM YET ? (2007), THREE BLIND MEN(2008), OVER THRESHOLDS (2009).In 2007, he moved into feature films by becoming Dibakar Banerjee’s assistant director on the hit film OYE LUCKY !LUCKY OYE !.In 2010, they co-wrote LSD: LOVE SEX AND DELUSION. The film was unanimously praised by the critics, and made him known as a promising screenwriter.TITLI marked Kanu Behl directorial debut and was selected in 2014 at the Festival de Cannes in the section UnCertain Regard. It received the best Foreign Work Award from the Critics’Union in 2015.AGRA is his second feature film

Awards received:

MAMI, Jury Award for Best Film

Melbourne Indian Film Festival, Best Film, Best Actor (Mohit Agarwal)