It has been a long and steady association between Dibakar Banerji and Kanu Behl. After passing out of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Calcutta, in 2007, Behl assisted Dibakar in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and Love Sex Aur Dhokha and also co-wrote the latter with him. So when Behl developed the idea of a film—Titli, about oppressions within a family and the urgency to escape them, all seen through the prism of patriarchy—he had to share it with Dibakar who, in turn, felt categorically that the film needed to be made. He joined hands with Yash Raj Films to co-produce the film—one of the most talked about projects at the Works In Progress Lab at NFDC Film Bazaar 2013.