LUCIA- India's first crowd funded movie which won critical acclaim from the whole world

the-idli-guy (42)in #film • 7 years ago (edited)

Indian cinema produces more number of movies than any movie industry in world. It has more number of artists than Hollywood. In India movies are produced in more than 14 languages and among them Kannada is one and it is one of the languages spoken in southern part of India. This industry has witnessed a new movie.This movie is not only new at the story part or the production part. It is very different in getting the money to produce the movie. It was the first crowd funded movie from India.

The Director:

This is Pawan kumar the reason behind the demystifying movie Lucia. Since the beginning of the idea he has believed in the movie and did not stop pursuing making the idea into a movie. The main obstacle was the money. In Indian movie industry it is very hard to get the producers into investing a new type of movie. Nonetheless pawan kumar started promoting the movie before even making it. He took social media as a stance and started posting the story boards in Facebook. He received his first donation from the British Council. Then he introduced a website where anyone from the world can donate money for the film. All the people who saw his video and story boards of the film donated money and with in 45 days he received 5 million in Indian rupees and has given him more than he expected in very shot time.

Cast and Making of the movie:

The lead actress is Sruthi Hariharan Lucia is her debut movie and also her character is an important aspect of the movie where the story takes unexpected turns and twists with the Protagonist. After doing years of theatre she has acquired this opportunity and has shown tremendous talent in the character she plays in the movie. She has recieved best actress award in 2014 for playing the female lead in Lucia.

Sathish Ninasam is the Protagonist of the film. He plays a guy lost in the difference between reality and dream. Sathish has shown different variations when it came to playing the character of Nikki in dream state and reality state.

Story of Lucia:

The movie revolves around Nikki. It starts off with Nikki having lake of sleep and discovering the drug Lucia. This drug not only helps in getting sleep but also lets him have the same dream again and again. Nikki is shown as a movie theatre Light boy and he dreams of being a successful actor who has many fans following him and his style. But he starts to see people in his real life in his dream as different characters and he starts to drift into violence and brawl with unknown people and loses the track of what is reality and what is dream. And soon we audience realise that in reality Nikki is a famous actor and in dream he is a poor light boy. But not realising this Nikki loses his patience and commits suicide as he cannot judge what is real anymore.

The movie is a psychological thriller which is set in this not so confusing sequence and has performances that makes audience waiting to see what happens next. Even though the movie is made in low budget it doesn't seem like it has very low production money. It has very nice songs pictured in good production value and the colors in the movie are also well maintained by the camera.

This movie one of its kind. Due to its uniqueness it has been loved by not only the indian audience but also the audience from all over the world and the director was appreciated for making the movie with such elegance and also such intellectual way and level. He was praised by his screenplay skills and also his way of using technical aspects to bring some spectacular scenes in the movie.

Here are some pictures from the making of the Movie

The movie is completely shot in canon 5d mark II