Lokesh Achar

Puksatte Lifu questions the atrocities that the civilized society commits in the high of power and is forced upon the poor by exploiting their inevitability through a dark, humorous and thoughtful narrative.

On the eve of Ram Navami, with Ramayana in the backdrop, Ravana in the mind and Ram in the heart, this dramedy is a journey of excitement, embarrassment, freedom, self-belief and of inner reflection. Bhujangaiah, a Dubai returned businessman has dreams of doing things his ways; Susheela, an escort is materialistic at core; an auto rickshaw wala has his eyes on unfulfilled Dubai diaries, and a director, Garuda is head over heels for his dream movie project; the plot thickens when their paths cross and events unfold to take them on a journey where their emotions get better of them, eventually leading them from sense of excitement to fear of humiliation to self-realization. It is a story of four souls in the guise of characters from Ramayana at a vantage point in their life. A Hari Kathe (folk form) depicting that if ever Lord Rama transforms into a Rakshasa, his greatest disciple Hanumantha would not stay a confidante, summarizes the thought and the characters of this movie.

The Human Mind is sometimes the scariest. The difference between reality and imagination lies in one corner of the mind which guides our conscious. Adavilo Last Bus starts off as a road movie where six strangers embark on the last bus in the interiors of Malnad. The journey ahead brings all of them together in ways and means that they had not foreseen, forms the crux of the story. The film is an honest portrayal of everyday people and their reactions when confronted with supernatural phenomenon.