Every one of us loves to dream. Our dream could be anything. One can dream about anything, he could be filmstar in that, he could be millionaire or in fact billionaire in the dreams. You actually have no limits for the dreams. But what happens when you mingle your dreams with your real life? Result could be anything but one thing is sure it will leads to a heavy confusion.
Lucia, a Kannada movie, is all about the dreams. Here we have a “battery-showing” attendant of “talkies” who came into the contact of drug peddlers and started taking “dream-pill : Lucia”. In the dreams he is living a life of a Film start. Incidentally all the characters in the dreams are people from his real life, with the same name. Film progresses with slow pace and then you yourself start mixing the two stories and start confusing about real or dream life. What if his dream life was real and real life was mere a dream? You will come to know about it in end.
I am a big movie fan and love to see good movies of any language provided I have subtitles for it. I read about it on some social media site and one of my friends had compared it to Inception. Yes it is not inception but it is a good and balanced movie with script as the main character of the movie.
If we look
the story from another angle it is also a story of our aspirations and desires.
Nikki, a “battery-showing” attendant wanted to be filmstar and loves the life
of film star whereas Nikki, a film star actually wants to live a simple life
probably a life of “battery-showing” attendant. It is all about our dreams. We have
lots of desires which couldn’t be fulfilled in our real lives but yes no body
charge a damn when we enjoy such desires in our dreams. Lucia is all about it
only.
My review will be incomplete if I fail to praise director for it. I read it on wiki and other sources that Director has no fund for the movie so he went on social media sites and appealed to people to participate in contribution of this movie. This cleared my doubt of showing more than 100 names in producers, associate producers list. Later on I came to know some 110 people invested in this movie and it was 1st movie in kannada to have done such experiment. In my knowledge it is 2nd movie to have asked people for funds. 1st one was “Veer Sawarkar” which was made in hindi and Marathi.
Anyways, director has done a brilliant job. He knew he was making a film on 2 different stories and he never ever tried to mix the content. In fact one part of life was showed in colors while other part of life was shown in black-n-white. In last director even tried to justify his logic of using black-n-white in one of the hospital scenes. In the end you may be confused which life was real life and which was the dream-life but it was the beauty of direction that you will end up getting all the answers by the end of movie.
It was my 3rd kannada movie till date, that’s why I do not have much knowledge about the names of actors and actresses and I am actually too lazy to check wiki for it now. Still main lead Nikki played a superb role. He actually lived 2 lives in movie.
It was a
brilliant movie and yes we actually lost our chance to send it to Oscars ( it
was in the list of Indian-official entry-to-oscar).
P.S. Movie has 8.8 ratings on IMDB which is actually a rare case for any indian movie. Watch the trailor from above link.
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