Trance (2020 film) – Wikipedia

2020 Indian Malayalam language film directed by Anwar Rasheed, released on 20 February 2020

Trance is an upcoming Indian Malayalam language film directed and produced by Anwar Rasheed and written by Vincent Vadakkan.[1] It features Fahadh Faasil in the lead role, playing five stages of his character's life, along with an ensemble supporting cast of Nazriya Nazim, Soubin Shahir, Vinayakan and Gautham Menon.[2][3] Amal Neerad was the cinematographer, while newcomer Jackson Vijayan composed the songs for the film. Resul Pookkutty was the sound designer.[4][5]

Filming was completed on 1 September 2019. The film is now set to release on 20 February 2020[6].

Trance was produced by Anwar Rasheed himself. The film marks the debut of Vincent Vadakkan as screenwriter. Rasheed was earlier supposed to direct a short in 5 Sundarikal (2013) based on the screenplay by Vadakkan. But it did not work out as he did not got the right cast. Later, Vadakkan narrated the story of Trance, but then he was not ready to produce the film because of its high production cost. Rasheed had Fahadh Faasil in mind for the lead role then itself. Later, Fahadh happened to hear the story from Vadakkan and insisted Rasheed to reconsider the project. By then, the storyline had changed and bankability of Fahadh had also grown and Rasheed was confident in producing the film.[7]

The first look poster of Trance was released by Anwar Rasheed. A week-long first schedule of filming was completed in December 2017 in Mumbai.[8] For the first time in Malayalam cinema, Bolt High Speed Cinebot cameras were used to shoot some scenes in the film.[9] The film is shot with sync sound. The film was shot mainly in coastal Kanyakumari, across various locations in India and Dubai, and the climax was shot in Amsterdam. In July 2019, it as reported that Trance is expected to cost close to 20 crore when it completes production.[10] Filming was completed on 1 September 2019.[11]

Its release was postponed multiple times. The film was initially scheduled to be released on 22 March 2019.[12] Then there were plans to release the film during Eid al-Fitr (June) but was later shifted to Onam (September) due to pending visual effects work.[10] Release date was again scheduled for 20 December 2019 before postponing to February 2020 due to delay in post-production work.[13] Then it was scheduled to 14 February 2020 on Valentine's Day.[6] But the regional Central Board of Film Certification in Thiruvananthapuram referred the film to a revising committee in Mumbai since Rasheed was not willing to cut a 8-minute long sequence that could hurt religious sentiments.[14] Now the film is all set to release on 20 February 2020.[15]

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