Lucia (2013 film)
| Lucia ಲೂಸಿಯ |
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| Directed by | Pawan Kumar |
| Produced by | Audience films Home Talkies |
| Written by | Pawan Kumar |
| Screenplay by | Pawan Kumar |
| Starring |
Sathish Ninasam Sruthi Hariharan |
| Music by |
Poornachandra Tejaswi Background music: Poornachandra Tejaswi Monish Kumar M. K. Santhosh Narayanan |
| Cinematography | Siddhartha Nuni |
| Edited by | Sanath–Suresh Pawan Kumar |
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Audience films
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| Distributed by | Home Talkies |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
| Budget | ₹5 million (US$78,000) |
| Box office | ₹30.6 million (US$480,000) |
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Soundtrack cover
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| Soundtrack album by Poornachandra Tejaswi | |
| Released | 10 June 2013 |
| Recorded | 2012-13 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 27:40 |
| Label | Anand Audio |
| Producer | Valerie |
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Lucia is an Indian Kannada romantic psychological thriller film written, co-edited and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Sathish Ninasam and Sruthi Hariharan.
The film's plot is about Nikki, an usher in theatre who suffers from insomnia but after consuming a special pill, he gets entangled in a different kind of dream. Lucia was the first Kannada film to be crowdfunded by the people which created a trend. The film's soundtrack was composed by Poornachandra Tejaswi and cinematography was handled by Siddhartha Nuni.
Lucia premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on 20 July 2013. It won the Best Film Audience Choice award at the festival.
It was also among the films shortlisted by the FFI to become India's submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2013. The film was also remade in Tamil as Enakkul Oruvan starring Siddharth and Deepa Sannidhi.
The plot is non-linear, and the end scene of the film shows the real beginning of the story. There are two main roles, one that is played out in the dream, and the other one in reality, called respectively Nikhil and Nikki. The plot starts with the protagonist being in a state of coma and continuing only on life support. The film, from the beginning, tells two stories of the same person, one in colour and the other in black and white.
Sanjay, a detective from the Mumbai police Crime Branch starts investigating the incident that caused the protagonist's (Sathish Ninasam) current state. While Sanjay is going through the protagonist's belongings he stumbles upon some scribbled notes and a mysterious pill. Meanwhile, the police capture two suspects and interrogate them.
The story starts with Nikki in a village near Mandya, working as an usher/"torch-shiner" in a Bengaluru movie theatre owned by Shankranna (Achyuth Kumar). Nikki suffers from insomnia and yearns for a companion. On one of his sleepless nights Nikki is contacted by a drug dealer who gives him Lucia pills as a solution to his sleeping problems. This drug is said to have the capacity to help one dream the life they want, but has the side-effect that upon discontinuation the same dreams turn into nightmares.
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