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HOUSTON,TEXAS, September 22, 2004: A long awaited, off-beat, intense and much anticipated historical film about Indian, European and African indentureship and slavery in British Guiana during the early 1800s, Guiana 1838, is ready for its premiere in New York on September 24-26. The movie, inspired by true events, is written, directed and produced by Rohit Jagessar, a US-based Guyanese, owner of the popular 24-hour Asian Indian radio station, RBC Radio. “Guiana 1838” captures the 19th century scene and tells the true story of the one million Indians who were shipped out of India to labour on the sugarcane plantations in the British West Indies, Fiji, Mauritus and Australia among other British colonies on the abolition of African slavery in these countries. With minimum effort it takes viewers proficiently through the passage of indentured labourers arriving on the ship, the Hesperus, and the tension that develops initially between the black slaves and the freshly arrived Indians. Bollywood star Kumar Gaurav, who will be here for the premiere of the movie, plays the role of Laxman, a coolie, an indentured laborer brought in from Calcutta to British Guiana on one of the first ships that entered this country in 1838 to labour on the sugarcane plantations.

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