After the stupendous success of his crowdfunded film
'Lucia', Kannada director Pawan Kumar is set to premiere his next at the New
York Film Festival.
Director Pawan Kumar made his debut in Kannada films in 2011
with Lifeu Ishtene which was a box office success. He chose to take the unusual
route of crowdfunding for his next project Lucia which became a globally
recognised cult film. Now, Kumar is readying for the release of his next called
U-Turn in May. In an exclusive chat with dna, Pawan Kumar talks about his
films, production company and more.
How did U-Turn
happen?
U-Turn was written while I was working on the Nicotine script.
We created our production house. We produced this movie ourselves. Nicotine is
a big film and we didn’t want to compromise on the quality for that script. So
getting it together took a year and meanwhile I could start U-Turn with new
people and shoot it immediately.
