Naalo Okadu (2015)

Spiced with myriad twists and turns, this suspenseful psychological thriller follows the life of a simple man. He leads a dull and dreary life, working as an usher at a decrepit cinema.

Unable to bear the suffering he is forced to face as a result of incessant insomnia, he is tricked into buying a mind-altering drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Having discovered the wonders of the Lucia way to fall asleep, his consciousness reveals a new world to him in the form of exciting and wonderful dreams.

In these grand illusions, he takes part in a sequence of melodramatic events that unfold every single time he falls asleep. He begins to live his life in the same dream until the thin line separating his real life from his dreams begins to recede. When the drug incites him into committing crimes, the question arises, can he beat the tremendous influence of the drug and return to reality?