Kochi: The producers of a Malayalam movie asked a Christian priest to bless their film sets after they experienced some weird happenings.
The team of upcoming film Ezra, horror-thriller met with inexplicable incidents by the second week of its filming in the Fort Kochi area of Kerala, southern India.
The film is being produced by South Indian actors Prithviraja and Priya Anand.
Its director Jay K says, “We were shooting in an old house in Fort Kochi for the movie when all of a sudden the lights started flickering. We brushed it off as random power fluctuation but that apparently was not the case.”
The team had its technical support look at the issue; however it was of no avail. “The power generator soon failed. Once we got that up and running, the next such incident we had to face was that soon one of our cameras stopped working and then its support panthers gave away. There were all sort of chaos happening,” explains the filmmaker.
He says this prompted the team to ask a priest to visit the set just to be sure. “We didn’t want to take any chances because it was spooky and the equipment are expensive. We gathered the entire cast and crew of the day and the priest blessed the sets before we resumed filming,” Jay says. “The funny thing was the lights were flickering even while he was reciting the Bible.”
Gimmick or not, the horror movie sure seems to have caught the attention of viewers even during the filming. Incidentally, the supposedly haunted sets of The Conjuring 2 was also blessed by a priest after a heavy curtain kept waving violently when there was no breeze or anyone near, said its actor Patrick Wilson.
Source: The Times of India