P awan Kumar’s Kannada-language feature film Lucia has won the Audience Award at London Indian Film Festival, winning accolades for its imaginative storytelling as well as for being the first crowd-funded Kannada film.
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Bangalore, Lucia is a psychological thriller about an usher in a cinema hall who sees weird dreams which start affecting his reality.
Shreshtha Trivedi speaks to director Pawan Kumar about “Project Lucia”, crowd-funding and why he wasn’t allowed to watch Kannada films as a child.
How did the idea of Lucia come about ?
I fell asleep on a couch one day and had a strange feeling that I’m in a dream right now. And there was another memory of somebody knocking and I’m opening the door. So the film is about dreams. This is one strand. Second, I also act. I had done this very popular film...
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Bangalore, Lucia is a psychological thriller about an usher in a cinema hall who sees weird dreams which start affecting his reality.
Shreshtha Trivedi speaks to director Pawan Kumar about “Project Lucia”, crowd-funding and why he wasn’t allowed to watch Kannada films as a child.
How did the idea of Lucia come about ?
I fell asleep on a couch one day and had a strange feeling that I’m in a dream right now. And there was another memory of somebody knocking and I’m opening the door. So the film is about dreams. This is one strand. Second, I also act. I had done this very popular film...
- 8/6/2013
- by Shreshtha Trivedi
- DearCinema.com
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