The feature film "Guiana 1838" will be completed by May 5 and the director for the movie, Rohit Jagessar hopes to then shoot three other feature films in Guyana.
Starring in the movie is Bollywood actor, Kumar Gaurav in the lead role as "Laxman" and Aarti Bathija as "Urmila". Guyanese actor Henry Rodney will be playing the role of "Cabi", a runaway slave who returns from the jungles after the abolition of slavery.
According to a release from the film committee, Jagessar said "good cinema is always met with great challenges." It further noted "challenges prompt the imagination to think and to go deeper and think broader." The filmmaker said that his long shooting schedules in intense South American heat sometimes spill into late nights. He further noted that it is taking some toll on his cast and crew but everyone keeps pressing on with appreciation for the demands of the story about the people who once lived and worked on this land.
According to Jagessar, his next film will continue the trilogy of "Guiana 1838" followed by "Pork Knockers", a film about a TIME magazine reporter on assignment journeying through the Amazon and uncovering the mystery which lies beneath. After such, the last chapter of Guiana 1838 will then go into production.
Jagessar and his production team are expected to fly from Guyana to New York for a short break after the Guyana shoot is completed.
Guiana 1838 will be released world wide in theatres this coming August after a private screening in Guyana and three weeks after its first screening in Australia.