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In the middle of nowhere

Supernatural track
Last Updated 02 October 2015, 18:42 IST

The storyline of the Kannada film ‘Last Bus’ has an eerie air about it. A bunch of strangers travelling to a village are stranded in a dilapidated house after the bus breaks down.

How they survive in unfamiliar surroundings and whether they will get to catch the last bus out of the place is the crux of the story.

The movie is directed by SD Arvinda, who debuted as a director with ‘Jugaari’. He says people’s belief in supernatural activities, particularly in spirits, has always fascinated him. He says he believed it when people told him that they saw something unusual, though he never believed that the unusual actually existed.

“My latest project brings this issue to focus. The project is an honest portrayal of everyday people and their reactions when confronted with a supernatural phenomena. Is the evil really out there or is it in our imagination? Are we hallucinating in this day of technology? These are just some of the questions that have been raised in the story,” explains Arvinda.

The idea, he says, is not only to entertain people but to get them thinking on those things. With this film, Arvinda hopes to make a movie that doesn’t fall into the usual cliche of horror and suspense.

Arvinda states that the team has consciously refrained from slotting the film under a particular genre. “We have chosen to call the film a psychological my­stery thriller. The idea is to create a feeling of fear without saying it in the face. Most

horr­or films have become monotonous with very predictable en­d­ings. We have attempted to ch­ange that in this film,” he ad­ds.

He recollects that one of his earlier projects dealt with black money without stating the obvious. A lot of people ask me what message I intend to send out through this film and I tell them that it is for people to decipher the film and understand what I am trying to say,” he explains.

The audio for ‘The Last Bus’ was recently launched by Puneeth Rajkumar.     

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(Published 02 October 2015, 17:31 IST)

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