The Hollywood director Randy Kent (Writer, producer, director of Shorts Timmy, The Bag Boy, Eclipse and Fuseli, features such as Perfect House, The Lempke brothers, Shadow of The Monarch and Blood Tulips) has completed ‘Road King’ Kannada film and it is heading for release on June 23, 2023. This is the first Kannada cinema directed via Skype technology
Mathin Hussein is the protagonist of ‘Road King’ – apparently the hero is also the producer of this film is born in Bengaluru and grew up in the USA. It is based on a real life incident in Kolar. Mathin and Randy are good friends. When budget was the main issue the friends collaborated in making the film. Apprehensive was Randy Kent because he did not know the Kannada language but he agreed for friendship.
The beauty of this film is that the direction was done via Skype. The reason for this use of technology is because Randy did not get Visa at the right time.
Mathin had acted in Bindhaas Dadagiri reality show and he is making debut as hero from this film. The female lead of Run Antony Ruksar is female lead. Leela Mohan, Harish S, Nayana Shetty and others are in the cast.
Arif Lalani handled cinematography and sound designer for Scot Wolf has worked for this film. Crazy Minds Sri has done editing, Chandan Shetty, rap king has done music for the film.
This film ‘Road King’ had already taken part in a few national and international film festivals, it is learnt.
