Lethargic Media or WHAT? #Lucia Movie

  First of all hats off to Pawan Kumar for coming out with such a beautiful concept with LUCIA. I have been hearing and reading about this movie since it was premiered in LIFF. Trust me, this crowd funded movie deserves all the hype it created before its release! Everything is top notch from acting to camera work. But unfortunately local media (atleast most of them) underrated the movie though the movie received rave reviews from the audience.

Initially I was quite OK with this, since I knew that opinions may vary from person to person. But recently a reporter from KANNADA PRABHA (Hari) reported that Lucia is a movie which can be liked and appreciated only by those people who are 'interested or involved in theatre works'. He further went on to say that its an Art movie which won't interest people who go to theater for entertainment. Hari was clearly defending his media which was made fun in social networking websites, since the same media largely underrated the movie.

Hmmm first lets come the content and clarity of the movie. Lucia is easily one of the best movies in recent times. I have watched this movie with lots of people who are non-kannadigas! All those people had to depend upon subtitles to understand the movie. But to no ones surprise all of them understood the movie and few of them even wanted to watch the movie for the second time! Unfortunately, the same movie was reviewed to have a  'meaningless climax' by our media. So what can we conclude from this? Are the  audience fools to applaud after climax or is media just too lethargic to at least try to understand the concept which is quite simple?

OK lets consider Lucia was a tough pill to swallow for our reporters and they were clueless about the movie. In such case, why did they review the movie? Its understandable if the movie is underrated if theaters were filled with clueless audience. But in this case, everyone were quite convinced except the reporters! Is our media so dumb?

Now, lets think Lucia is not a commercial movie and is an Art movie. One of the reporters had rated the movie with 2 stars saying that the movie doesn't have any commercial elements. Is this the way to treat an Art movie? If at all Kannada Film Industry is surviving today, its because of these art movies which gives sandalwood a national level recognition.

Satish's acting in the movie is appreciated by one and all. But, One news reporter even went on to say Satish's acting is not at all an acting in few sequences. Reading this I concluded that the review was not all a review.

Why is the local media so against the movie which is gaining a national level recognition? Is it because our media is lethargic?  Is it because our reporters are less intelligent? Or is it because ours is a paid media?

Well, this can be answered only by our Media!

Whatever the answer is; the first audience movie in kannada is definitely a movie which changes the outlook of KFI.