South Asia Competition
France, India
Hindi
2023
132 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Directors' Fornight, Cannes
Busan Int'l Film Festival
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (Best Indie Film, Best Actor- Male - Mohit Agarwal)
South Asia Competition
France, India
Hindi
2023
132 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Directors' Fornight, Cannes
Busan Int'l Film Festival
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (Best Indie Film, Best Actor- Male - Mohit Agarwal)
Guru (25), a sexually repressed young boy, lives in a small house in Agra. He sleeps in the same room as his mother, and on the upper floor, his father lives with a mistress. In an already tiny house, the only available space is the terrace above the upper floor. Guru insists that he loves Mala, an imaginary girl, and will marry and live with her in a room on the terrace, just like his father does with his mistress. Agra then becomes the odyssey of a young Indian man’s sexual coming of age. Even as everyone in the house fights for the terrace for their material gains, Guru struggles with his sexuality.
Mohit Agarwal
Rahul Roy
Vibha Chibber
Sonal Jha
Aanchal Goswami
Ruhani Singh
Kanu Behl
Atika Chohan
Saurabh Monga
Nitesh Bhatia
Samarth Dixit
Pritam Das
Phillipe Grivel
Karan Gour
Parul Sondh
Fabeha Sultana Khan
Kanu Behl
behl.kanu@gmail.com
Kanu Behl dabbled in radio, copywriting, and acting before majoring in Film Direction at the Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute. After making the documentaries An Actor Prepares (2006), Three Blind Men (2007), Found Him Yet? (2007), and Over Thresholds (2008), Behl dove into fiction in 2010. A Berlinale talent campus alumni and twice nominated for the Berlin Today Award, Behl directed his debut feature, Titli, in 2014, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and won eight awards internationally. His sophomore feature, Agra (2023), premiered at Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival, and had its South Asia premiere at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023.
