Sanadalwood’s AKA The Kannada Film Industry’s upcoming one-of-a-kind sci-fi feature film, ‘Consilium’ is on its way for a direct-to-OTT release. The film completed post-production, a few months ago, but the movie producers have been unable to release the film in theatres due to the rising numbers of coronavirus cases (due to the second wave of the Covid-19 virus). When this movie releases on an OTT platform, ‘Consilium’ will be the first Kannada Sci-fi film to release directly on an OTT platform this year (possibly ever as well).
When this film was announced back in 2018 by first time director Samarth, many were excited about the film – mainly what it can do for the South-Indian sci-fi genre@. Samarth, who will also act for the first time as well, in this movie, said that the movie faced many difficulties during the shoot, especially during the 2020 worldwide pandemic and the resultant nationwide lockdown. Eventually, he and the production company decided to make the film exclusively for an OTT platform during post-production.
‘Consilium’ is titled after the same Latin word which means wisdom. The film is expected to talk about multiple philosophical concepts which is an ambitious project for a first-time mainstream movie maker who only has a few short films under his belt. Still, his writing skills have worked well for him in the past and his script will be a major deciding factor on how the movie will fare on OTT.
The production house is still searching for an OTT platform but there hasn’t been any official announcement or rumours yet, regarding a possible interest from any streaming platform. For now, we will have to just wait and see.