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''Lucia'' is an Indian Kannada language psychological thriller film written and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Sathish Ninasam and Sruthi Hariharan.〔(Sruthi gets busy - The Times of India )〕 The trailer of Lucia was released in February 2013,with the film releasing on 6 September 2013.〔(Lucia trailer released - The Times of India )〕 ''Lucia'' premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on 20 July 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.britishsouthindians.co.uk/indian-film-festival-2013-london/ )〕 It won the Best Film Audience Choice award at the festival. It was also among the films shortlisted by the FFI to become India's submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2013. The film was also remade in Tamil as Enakkul Oruvan starring Siddharth and Deepa Sannidhi. ==Plot== The plot is non-linear, and the end scene of the film shows the real beginning of the story. There are two main roles, one that is played out in the dream, and the other one in reality, and can be called Nikhil and Nikki〔 The plot starts with the protagonist being in a state of coma and continuing only on life support. The film, from the beginning, tells two stories of same person, one in colour and other in black and white. Sanjay, a detective from Mumbai crime branch starts investigating the incident that caused the protagonist's (Sathish Ninasam) current state. Sanjay going through his belongings stumbles upon some scribbled notes and a mysterious pill. Meanwhile police capture two suspects and interrogate them for information. The story starts with Nikki is from a village near Mandya working as an Usher/“torch-shiner” in a Bengaluru movie theatre owned by Shankranna (Achyuth Kumar). Nikki suffers from insomnia and yearns for a companion. On one of his sleepless nights Nikki is contacted by a drug dealer who gives him Lucia pills as a solution to his sleeping problems. This drug is said to have the capability to help one dream the life they want but has the side-effect, that on discontinuation the same dreams shall turn into a nightmare. With the help of the Lucia pills, Nikki starts seeing himself as being a successful actor called Nikhil surrounded by people he knows in the real world. Film actor Nikhil's life is depicted in black-and-white. Shankranna, the theater owner where Nikki works, had starred in a film in his youth funded by the leader of the goons, who now wants Shankranna to sign off his theatre for his debt. More events from the dream are followed by similar events in reality as Nikki falls in love with Shwetha (Sruthi Hariharan) who is a model in the dream and a waitress in the reality. In the dream, Nikhil and Shwetha hit it off easily at the beginning but later friction arises when Nikhil expresses his discontent on Shwetha working in film industry. Meanwhile in reality, Nikki struggles to win Shwetha’s heart, who rejects him first due to his low salary and falls later for his humble character. Shwetha’s attempts to get Nikki educated and lead him to earn a better job turns out to be futile and also results in death of Shankranna in the hands of goons. Frustrated, Nikki chooses to leave Shwetha and continue to work in the theatre, despite the threats. Nikki redecorates the theatre and releases Shankranna’s film to the audience. He later reconciles with Shwetha, who agrees to marry him. In the dream, Shankranna is kidnapped, and Nikhil rescues him with the help of police. In the process, all of the goons are either arrested or killed except for the contract killer. Nikhil feels Shankranna is not safe with him and decides to fire him. Nikhil breaks up with Shwetha and sends off all his servants so as to be alone. Later, a visually disturbed Nikhil finds himself in a thrashed room. Nikhil gets hold of the torch and through its light sees his life as a “torch-shiner” projected on the walls of the room. Shwetha is now distraught with being in the lime light and understands what Nikhil had tried to tell her. Nikhil, the actor, meets Shwetha and tells her that he cannot decide if the present moment is a dream or reality but he is ultimately happy. Asking Shwetha to close her eyes, Nikhil jumps off the roof to the confusion of everyone present, including the contract killer waiting to kill him. At present, Sanjay with the help of the suspects, performs a sting operation on the drug dealer and learns more about the Lucia pills. Meanwhile, Shwetha is caught in an attempt to kill Nikhil by pulling him off life support. During her interrogation, the whole investigating team along with Shwetha watches a re-run of an interview of the film star Nikhil. In the interview, Nikhil expresses his dissatisfaction of the stardom and reveals that he is actually color blind from an accident in his childhood. He tells the interviewer that he dreams of being a normal person and in fact in one of his dreams he is a “torch-shiner” who gets no attention from people and is happily in love with the dream of his life. Sanjay is now convinced that Nikhil is living in his own versions of reality and chose to be in his dream over the real world by attempting suicide. Sanjay gets Shwetha to act and behave as if in Nikhil’s dream, enacts himself as a contract killer and shoots the comatose Nikhil in the head with an empty gun. Simultaneously, Nikhil, aware and alive in his dream world finds everything disappearing around him and is killed by a shot to the head. Nikhi wakes up from his coma to see the astonished doctors and Shwetha's relieved face. At the end we can see Nikhil, Swetha and Shankaranna (who was dead per Nikhil's dream) enjoying pizza (Swetha worked as pizza waitress per Nikhil's dream) while they operate the projector of an old theater. Thus viewers could ascertain that it was film star Nikhil's dream to be a commoner like Nikki and it was achieved through Lucid dreams. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucia (2013 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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