Genre – Romance, Drama, Psychological thriller
No. of seasons – 1
No. of episodes – 144
Original language – Hindi
Country of origin – India
The story revolves around Titli, a youthful woman setting out on a quest for love. Along her journey, she encounters Garv, who shares her affection, but his feelings grow into excessive possessiveness. How will Titli navigate life with a husband who imposes constraints on her?
The show starts with Titli growing up as a lively girl despite losing her parents as a child. She is then raised by her paternal uncle and aunt. She attends her friend’s wedding where she meets her school friend Rahul. Later, Rahul comes with a marriage proposal at her house and Titli accepts him. However, on the wedding day, Titli finds out that he is already married and is only marrying her for a child. She denies marrying him and runs away to a cliff to cry out to God, where she meets Garv for the first time.
The next day, Garv hires Titli as a decorator for his sister Monika’s wedding. Titli finds out about Garv’s father having two wives, but the first wife who is closer to Garv is mistreated. During the course of the wedding, Garv begins to catch feelings for her and eventually falls for her by the end of wedding. He then confesses to her. Due to past trauma, she rejects him and Garv devotes himself to God to impress Titli.
Titli’s second suitor humiliates Titli and Garv in front of their families. Garv confesses his feelings in front of their family and after much hustle, both families accept them and they get married. Titli’s cousin sister Hiral who is envious of Titli, gifts Titli a bracelet with Rahul’s name, which Garv sees on the wedding night and gets upset with Titli who was herself was unaware of this.
While visiting her family Titli confronts her sister which her uncle misunderstands and a fight between her uncle and Garv breaks out. Garv gets angry with her humiliating him during muhdikhayi and punishes her. Later Garv invites Titli’s family to a surprise dinner planned by her. Titli in a drunk state gets saved by Monika’s brother in-law, which Garv misunderstands and pushes Titli to the ground. She confronts him later which upsets him and Garv gets into an accident. Titli’s sister complains about Garv to the police, who is the brother of Garv’s ex whose hand Garv broke in anger.
After Garv recovers, they go on their honeymoon, but things become strained when Garv slaps Titli after she and others laugh at him after failing in a couple’s competition. Garv hires goons to threaten Titli’s family to impress Titli, but when she refuses to forgive him, he threatens to get into a car crash; she unwillingly forgives him. Later Hiral lies to everyone about Titli reporting Garv and she challenges to prove herself right in three days. After Titli proves herself innocent she tells him about wanting to go back to her flower shop. Garv, feeling guilty about how he treated Titli, agrees to it, but later creates problems for her. He eventually burns the shop and destroys any evidence. Garv also fakes having an allergy reaction to the flowers, and the entire family turn against Titli due to it.
On Garv’s birthday, Garv hurts Titli again after seeing a picture of his dead brother, Chiku. Garv’s abuse gets exposed infront of his cousin, Dhara, on Janmashtmi.
A psychologist named Megha who is obsessed with Garv gets Titli’s attention, and after much drama she gets Garv ready for treatment with his anger issues. Garv’s anger issues gets revealed in front of his father, who creates a havoc in the family. Dhara reveals that Garv has abused Titli in anger, so Garv’s adoptive mother slaps him. After getting slapped, Garv loses his calm and insults Titli.
Badi maa advises Titli to leave the house for self-respect and not stay with a toxic man. However, she returns later for Badi maa’s respect and makes it clear that she will never forgive Garv. Garv promises to change himself. Despite Megha creating many problems, Garv doesn’t lose his calm. Later a mentally challenged guy runs away from the hospital and enters the Mehta’s house. Garv’s father reveals him to be Chiku but tells Titli to not tell Garv, which she originally refuses to do. Garv finds out eventually and loses his calm and starts vandalizing his house. Later, Garv and Megha get engaged to each other and test Titli’s love for Garv.
Main Cast
- Neha Solanki acting as Titli Mehta (née Dave): Garv’s wife; Manikant and Maina’s daughter in law; Paresh and Jayashree’s niece; Hiral and Chintu’s cousin.
- Ravya Sadwani as Child Titli
- Avinash Mishra acting as Garv Mehta: Titli’s husband; Manikant and Maina’s son; Koel’s foster son and nephew; Cheeku and Monika’s younger brother; Drishti’s elder brother; Hiren and Alpa’s nephew; Dhara’s cousin
Recurring
- Rinku Dhawan as Koel Manikant Mehta
- Yash Tonk as Manikant Mehta
- Vivana Singh as Maina Manikant Mehta
- Sachin Parikh as Paresh Dave
- Nishi Singh as Hiral Dave
- Susheel Parashar as Manikant and Hiren’s father
- Devish Ahuja as Chintu Dave
- Radhika Chhabra as Monika Mehta
- Pratiksha Rai as Drishti Mehta
- Manu Malik as Hiren Mehta
- Parigala Asgaonkar as Alpa Hiren Mehta
- Aditi Chopra as Dhara Mehta
- Ishaan Singh Manhas as Atharv “Cheeku” Mehta
- Megha Prasad as Megha
- Vatsal Sheth[4] as Rahul
- Preeti Gandwani as Titli’s mother (Dead) (2023)
Reviews
- Director Kanu Behl’s Titli hits you in the guts right from the first frame. Because it is about a world that co-exists right in our midst, a world so lowly that we ignore but never forget while driving back home in the still of the night. Even if you haven’t been to any such place in the capital, or encountered the people who inhabit these crowded bylanes, the fact is that Titli could be about any city, and its people. ~ Hindustan Times
- There’s a difference between art and commercial cinema. Art films are a lot closer to reality and their presentation of the truth is a lot more absolute. Titli may be billed like a noir film, but its content is unmistakably arty. It chronicles reality at its ugliest. That defeats any purpose of finesse and technique in filmmaking. It takes the truth and presents it in its barest and most inconvenient form. That’s the way dark films play out. And Titli’s heart is seeped in darkness. Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora play brothers who are tethered to each other by the singular idea of being family. They’re also a desperate bunch who have no money and no idea of how to treat women. So they get down to robbing cars to earn the extra buck. You have graphic scenes of earrings being ripped off and heads being smashed with a hammer. But the Quentin Tarantino treatment is let down by estoric scenes of eagles, moths and spiders. One understands they’re narrative cues that suggest a deeper emotional state in the film. But such gimmicks used to look nice in Fritz Lang and Andrei Tarkovsky’s niche films. In 2015 mainstream cinema they feel like an unnecessary hark back to film school. Even Tarantino movies are served with a dash of wry humour. Abject realism always works well with dark humour and/or satire. Abandon humour from a mainstream film and focus only on realism and you would’ve made yourself a fine documentary on a truth noone would pay for. ~Filmfare.com
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