Crowdfunding and me

I wanted to get into this crowd-funding business 2 years back but was not sure if  I was ready to take up the challenge once people donate. I don't want to misuse all the hard earned cash of others no matter how small it is.So for the past two years I started my own media company and tried and tested the tools, techniques, technology to create visuals for many brands so far which includes the likes of Amazon,Ebay, Ford etc.And at the same time a year back I saw how fans rallied behind hollywood movies "Veronica Mars" and "Wish I was here".Even a Kannada film "LUCIA" directed by pawan kumar succeded in getting the like minded people to make the film. The film also was one of the biggest hits of the year.So I thought I should do it one day but had my own thoughts on what if I dont succeed? What if I get almost nothing?.

I came across a Kannada script called as 4443. A script that really made me think why don't I start off with this script and go ahead. So the search began for producers, weirdest conversations happened. One thing is I don't understand why they say whenever I talked a visual effect was they raise their hand above their head "our people don't want this" and then they lower the hand to their waist and say "our people want this so forget about visual, fantasy nonsense and make a love story and two fights 4 songs, 1 item song and my son is the hero". I don't know who took the survey of OUR PEOPLE WANT THIS I was never asked about what I want, I belong to the our people you see.I was frustrated that day day and me and my friend were discussing about crowd-funding. I told him it wont work out as we are not some reputed directors here and all who will fund for our project?

Then I heard the conversation of these two for five minutes and realized how much people are ready to invest here in Bangalore just so that we have some good films. I made up my mind I am ready to fail but I am not ready to regret and say I did not try. I rather embrace failure than regret not trying this has always been my motto and I decided to go by it. 4443 a film beyond the normal gimmicks of titling and story telling. What is the story of a kannada film we can decode it as

*boy like the girl/girl likes the boy
*girl says no and boy doesnt stop he tries to impress in various ways
*girl falls in love slowly with a single song of her thinking of something good he did
*both full love another song
*father/brother have a past with the boy and are not happy. time for kill/mass thing
*hero and Heroine father fight out but finally Hero saves girls father/brother from something
*happy ending phew now I can make a movie
*suspense u can add some tragedy to boys father/sister. mother is always there to cry when son comes home :p

seriously!! Okay I am not talking about all the movies here. there are definitely some good movies like recently I watched Mynaa, Lucia, SOLS, 6-5=2 etc.So crowd-funding was my only option. I checked through the crowd-funded movies and could see everyone gave posters, gifts etc to their backers. I was just wondering when you take money from backers why dont you give it back to them than some gifts. Then I did some research and realized it was illegal to give returns for a crowd-funding backers. Hmmm I still want to give back so I thought this might work and started a crowd-funding for my Kannada Feature film 4443 today. It will get funded or not I have made my point and will finish this project just like I thought. I would love to have more interested people in the industry to crowdfund and get back full profits out of it in one form or the other.If you want to be part of this adventure you can scroll down :)

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