Director Rituparno Ghosh is known for his sensitive films that explore and dissect relationships. Be it ’Unishe April’, ’Dahan’, ’Ashukh’, ’Bariwaali’, ’Chokher Baali’, ’Utsab’ or ’Raincoat’, he has always been successful in depicting a human relationship, or often a set of such relationships, in all its nuances. Even in a crime thriller like ’Shubho Maharat’ or a children’s film like ’Heerer Aangti’, he doesn’t hesitate to add a subtle edge in the criss-crossings of human bonding. His ’Titli’ is no exception to that lineage. Moreover, having the real life mother-daughter duo Aparna Sen and Konkona Sen Sharma enact the principal roles, the director gives a unique dimension to the film that would make all viewers of such sensitive films lap it up. Right from the opening moments, when the lilting song ’Megh peon’ fills the air, the viewer is likely to be enthralled, one can be prepared to get sucked into the vortex of relationships - a mother and a daughter, the mother and her ex-lover - their past and the present , and, last but not the least, the daughter and her matinee idol - who is none else but her mother’s ex-lover. The complexities are languidly portrayed amidst a brilliant setting, and the advent of monsoon is as dramatic as the celebrity actor’s arrival disturbing the seemingly unstable matrix. The poignant moment where the mother and the daughter hold on to each other is really heartwarming. Mithun Chakraborty, as the ’hero’, tries his best to cater to the demands of a film of this nature and he mostly succeeds. Aparna Sen gives a superlative performance as usual. But it is Konkana Sen Sharma who excels as the young girl - torn and confused. Konkona grabs all the attention, deservedly; she did this film before she got noticed and won praises for ’Mr & Mrs Iyer’ or ’Page 3’. The final laudatory words must be in favour of the brilliant cinematography of Abheek Mukherjee. Nature hasn’t been so effectively picturised in a Bengali film in a long, long time. The myriad ways of monsoon accentuates the myriad moods of humans!