Lucia (film)
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| Directed by | Pawan Kumar |
| Written by | Pawan Kumar |
| Produced by | Audience films and Home Talkies |
| Starring | Ninasam Satish Sruthi Hariharan |
| Cinematography | Siddhartha Nuni |
| Music by | Poornachandra Tejaswi |
Release dates |
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| Country |  India |
| Language | Kannadaaa |
| Budget | ₹0.75 crore (US$90,000) |
| Box office | ₹1.16 crore (US$140,000) (1st week) + ₹0.95 crore (US$110,000) {satellite rights} [1] |
Lucia is an Indian Kannada language psychological thriller film directed and written by Pawan Kumar.[2] It stars Satish Neenasam and Sruthi Hariharan.
Lucia premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on July 20, 2013 along with some Hindi movies like Monsoon Shootout and Bombay Talkies directed by Anurag Kashyap.[3][4] It won the Best Film Audience Choice award at the festival.[5]
Plot
An usher at a decrepit cinema suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect.[6]
Cast
- Sathish Ninasam
- Sruthi Hariharan
- Hardika Shetty
- Achyuth Kumar
Production
In December 2011 Pawan Kumar announced on social networking website that his next project, after the success of his directorial debut film Lifeu Ishtene, was 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 on 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.[7][8] Lucia is notable for its use of crowdfunding technique. It was funded by 110 investors who contributed to the project through a Facebook page and a blog run by director-actor Pawan Kumar. It was the first Kannada movie to bypass the traditional film financing mode.[9] 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.[10] Lucia was made at a budget of ₹0.75 crore (US$90,000). Kannada language television channel Udaya TV bought the satellite rights of the film for ₹0.95 crore (US$110,000).[11]
Soundtrack
The music for the film is composed by debutant Poornachandra Tejaswi, a software engineer turned music composer.
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Tracklist
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
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| 1 | "Thinbedakami" | Poornachandra Tejaswi S V., Arun M C., Bappi Blossom |
| 2 | "Nee Thorebeda" | Udith Haritas, Ananya Bhat |
| 3 | "Jamma Jamma" | Naveen Sajju |
| 4 | "Yako Barlilla" | Naveen Sajju |
| 5 | "Helu Shiva" | Naveen Sajju |
| 6 | "Jamma Jamma" | Yogaraj Bhat, Naveen Sajju, Rakshith Nagarle |
| 7 | "Thinbeda" (Bonus track) | Sangeetha Rajeev, Nithin Acharya, Sparsha R. K. |
Critical Reception
Irrfan Khan and Anurag Kashyap praised the film.[12]Anurag Kashyap has tweeted "My birthday gift to myself would be lucia...".[13]
References
- ^ http://dearcinema.com/news/kannada-indie-lucia-grosses-56-lakhs-opening-weekend/0258
- ^ "Crowd-funding show gains pace with Kannada movie Lucia, over 100 people invest through Facebook & blog". The Economic Times. 13 April 2013.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Lucia to premiere at LIFF". The Indian Express. 2 July 2013.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Indian Film Festival 2013 – London". britishsouthindians.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Crowd-funded 'Lucia' wins smash hit 4th edition of LIFF". London Indian Film Festival.
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- ^ Swimming Against TheTide : Postnoon
- ^ Project Lucia | Pawan Kumar
- ^ Gen Y film makers home in on crowd funding - Times Of India
- ^ Satish replaces Diganth in Kannada film 'Lucia'
- ^ http://dearcinema.com/news/kannada-indie-lucia-grosses-56-lakhs-opening-weekend/0258
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/kannada/news-interviews/Anurag-Kashyap-tweets-about-Lucia/articleshow/22413053.cms
- ^ https://twitter.com/ankash1009/status/377270748362326016