Lucia, a Kannada movie you, the audience, produced is due
to release late August in movie halls. This movie recently won the Audience award
in a London film festival. One of the finest actors of Indian cinema, Irrfan
Khan, has appreciated this movie and expressed interest in making this in
Hindi.
I first heard about this movie when makers sent
a shout out calling for producers, I was apprehensive about their potential and ignored it. Few months later, I even saw the video calling for potential
singers for the movie's most popular song "Tinbeda Kammi". I liked
the video and but ignored it as a gimmick.
Sometime after that, I came across of the the movie's trailer
on YouTube and clicked the link only because I saw Ninasam Satish there. I
admire theater and personally believe actors who come from theater background
are excellent performers, whichever platform they are on. Rajat Kapoor, T.S Nagabharana, Mandya Ramesh, Konkana Sen Sharma, Prakash Raj, Naseeruddin
Shah, Lakshmi Chandrashekar… the list of such brilliant actors is endless. I
had seen Satish in Yograj Bhat's Drama and quite liked him.
Coming back to the trailer, what started as a curiosity went
on to amaze me completely! I never, ever thought in my life that I would see a movie
on a dark subject in Kannada, with an ample dose of commercial masala elements.
I am not a keen follower of Kannada cinema, but to the best of my knowledge, not
many of our filmmakers have successfully done this. However, Pawan Kumar, the director
of this movie and his team has dared to take the risk and have come out with a gem
of a product.
Watch the trailer here.
You can visit the Lucia channel on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRyPJvv_7LPImzR3AleNa1Db-k4knBRyE
By then, the filmmakers were looking for distributors and I immediately
bought an online distributorship of this movie by paying Rs.1000. From then
on, I have successfully convinced my friend to do the same and shared all important
posts and posters on my Facebook, with the sole objective of giving as much
visibility to this project and encouraging others to put money on this.
I am confident that you are impressed by the trailer, so I will
not really talk much about it. My journey started with skepticism, moved to
curiosity, and finally ended up at excitement. Watch the trailer, trust the
team behind this, and encourage them to make more landmark movies like this. The
opportunity ends on August 15th. Do not miss it!
You can find the FAQ and pre-order the movie here.
If you have any additional queries, you can contact Pawan Kumar at: audiencefilms.lucia@gmail.com
If you cannot pre-order the movie for any reason, but still want to watch it, check your city's local listings and watch it on big screen.
If it is not showing in your city, you can watch the movie
right here online. Of course, it is a paid version.
Sidewing:
Let the world know that we have people who make intelligent movies which are not limited to award festivals, but also are successful commercially.
Skepticism > Curiosity > Excitement. It happened once. It can happen again. This time, it can be YOU.
