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Lucia
Directed byPawan Kumar
Written byPawan Kumar
Produced byAudience films and Home Talkies
StarringNinasam Satish Shruthi Hariharan
CinematographySiddharth Nuni
Music byPoornachandra Tejaswi
Release date
  • July 20, 2013 (2013-07-20) (London Film Festival)
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada
Budget5 million (US$59,000)

Lucia is Indian Kannada language independent film directed and written by Pawan Kumar.[1] It stars Satish Neenasam,Shruthi Hariharan.

Lucia was premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on July 20 along with some of the Hindi movies like Monsoon Shootout and Bombay Talkies directed by Anurag Kashyap.[2][3] it won the Best Film Audience Choice award at the festival[4]

Plot

This movie is about an insomniac cinema usher who gets sleep and great dreams as long as he takes the drug, but nightmares when he doesn't.

Cast

  • Neenasam Satish
  • Shruthi Hariharan
  • Hardika Shetty
  • Achyuth Kumar

Production

In December, 2011 Pawan Kumar announced in social networking website that his next project, after the success of his directorial debut film Lifeu Ishtene, is going to be Lucia. For the next 2 months, he met quite a few producers and top actors and found it difficult to fund his film and that led Pawan Kumar to write a post titled Making Enemies in his blog. Three days after it was published, the response was so overwhelming that he decided to pitch the idea of inviting people to produce the film and Pawan Kumar initiated Project Lucia.[5][6] Lucia is notable for its use of crowdfunding technique.This cinema funded by 110 investors who contributed to the project through a Facebook page and a blog run by director-actor Pawan Kumar, this movie will be the first Kannada movie to bypass the traditional film financing mode.[7] The director initially offered the lead role to model turned actor Diganth but he was later replaced by Neenasam Satish, who has played supporting roles in many Kannada films.[8]

Soundtrack

The music for the film is composed by debutent Poornachandra Tejaswi,a software engineer turned music composer.

  • Thinbedakami : Poornachandra Tejaswi S V
  • Nee Thorebeda: Udith Haritas
  • Jamma Jamma : Naveen Sajju
  • Yako Barlilla : Naveen Sajju
  • Helu Shiva : Naveen Sajju
  • Jamma Jamma – Pathos : Naveen Sajju
  • Thinbeda – Bonus Track : Sangeetha Rajeev

Online Distribution and Pre-order

As an innovative crowd financing concept the movie can be pre-ordered and watched.[9]

References