Kannada /Crowd funding : A blogging Director's cracking idea

This engineering college dropout was a dreamer. But what the 29-year-old has
achieved today is beyond what he ever dreamt of. In February, a frustrated Pawan Kumar posted a blog on his struggle to find a producer for his movie, 'Lucia'. Today, Pawan has 110 investors, mostly NRIs, willing to co-produce his film!

Pawan, a director with the Kannada film
industry, can boast of co-producers from the
UK, US, Finland, Australia and Norway. Where
big-time movie producers struggle to get
returns from their movies, Pawan got an
overwhelming response from Kannada film
lovers across the globe.
That's the magic behind Pawan and his crowd-
funding attempt. How was it done? There
unravels the story of an engineering drop out
who had big dreams and efforts made in the
right channel.
After completing the second year of his course
from a Bangalore engineering college, Pawan
realized his passion lies largely in films and
theatre rather than studies. He quit college and
turned to full time artist
direction. Thus began his journey into the world
of cinema. After a seven-year innings, Pawan
came up with his own film 'Lucia' but had no
buyers.

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