“Because I’d become this poster boy for crowd funding and people thought that I knew all the answers, I felt this failure would be the best way to tell someone ‘Look, crowd funding happens only when the crowd is in sync with what you're doing’. The poster boy for crowd funding, who created hope for how new-age Kannada cinema could be made, is on the cusp of a new release. And therein, he says, lies the tragedy of crowd funding — people are yet to understand how the business of filmmaking works. Crowd funding works on a very underdog concept, like in Charlie Chaplin films when the crowd believes he is one among them, but an underdog. Ever since the 34-year-old Kannada film writer-director scored big on the crowd funding platform with Lucia , expectations are riding on his young shoulders.

Source: The Hindu May 12, 2016 18:42 UTC