Trance (2019)

Original title

ട്രാന്‍സ്

Directed by

Anwar Rasheed

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 50m

Rated

UA

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A motivational speaker from Kanyakumari is hired to pose as a Christian pastor by a fraud agency. His life spirals into substance dependence and exploitation as faith becomes a business.

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What happens

Trance is a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Anwar Rasheed and written by Vincent Vadakkan. It features Fahadh Faasil alongside an ensemble cast including Gautham Vasudev Menon, Dileesh Pothan, Nazriya Nazim, Chemban Vinod Jose, Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi, Vinayakan, Arjun Ashokan and Anoop Janardhanan. The film's plot follows the events in the life of a Kanyakumari-based atheist motivational speaker, who is hired by a fraud agency to work as a Christian pastor. The film deals with themes of substance dependence, religion, and the commercialisation of spirituality. Trance marked Rasheed's directorial return after a hiatus of nearly eight years since he directed Ustad Hotel (2012). Made on a budget of ₹35 crores, principal photography began in July 2017, and was completed on 1 September 2019. The film was mainly shot across coastal Kanyakumari, and across Mumbai, India, and Dubai. It was the first Malayalam film to use Bolt High-Speed Cinebot cameras and shot with sync sound. Newcomer Jackson Vijayan, composed the film's soundtrack album, with the title song being composed by Vinayakan; the background score was composed by Vijayan along with Sushin Shyam. The film's cinematography was handled by Amal Neerad, with editing done by Praveen Prabhakar. The film's release was postponed multiple times, with the initial release scheduled for March 2019, owing to production delays, as well as censorship issues. A week before the film's release, it was leaked on the piracy website. Trance was released in Kerala on 20 February 2020, and across India on 28 February. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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