Roger Nair Productions has acquired the Canadian rights of writer-director Mani Ratnam’s Guru from Bobby Bedi’s Kaleidoscope Entertainment, which owns the overseas rights of the film.
Guru stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, R Madhavan and Vidya Balan in the lead roles. Music for the film has been composed by A R Rahman.
A star studded world premiere will be held in Toronto, Canada on 11 January, 2007 at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre, where many Hollywood movies are premiered. Most of the cast and crew of Guru are expected to attend the premiere.
“This will be a pathbreaking and landmark deal between Canada and India, making Canada an official territory for Bollywood films. Roger Nair Productions and its directors Roger Nair (its Toronto based CEO) and Padamm Kumar (the India based COO) have entered the distribution market in a big way for the Canada territory and will be buying films for North America and Europe as well. Roger Nair Productions is also in negotiations with other top Hindi filmmakers for acquiring rights to their films,” says Roger Nair Productions spokesperson Meenakshi Kumar.
Historically, the Indian film industry has always looked upon North America as one combined territory. The lobbying by Canadian companies for video and television rights have thus far been futile, forcing them to get only exhibition rights, which did not help in fighting video piracy in the lucrative Canadian market.
Roger Nair Productions, a Canadian company has now acquired absolute theatrical, video and TV rights, ensuring legal rights to curb piracy with the help of the police and the judicial system.
Guru will open in the Canada wide Cineplex, AMC and Empire theatres on 12 January 2007.
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