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Jagessar's first film is already a hit, having made $108,000 from the Crossbay Theater in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, around where a significant portion of the city's Caribbean-American community lives.
In a few weeks, it will travel to Toronto and beyond, covering a total of 3,000 screens. rediff's Hollywood box office guru Arthur J Pais feels, "Given the strength of the Caribbean community in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, it is capable of grossing over $1 million."
"This is not just the history of Guyanese Indians," says Jagessar, who is also the founder of New York's first 24-hour Indian music radio channel. "It is also a history of India, a history that has been forgotten and neglected in the textbooks."
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Jagessar came to the United States at 15, but never quite forgot his boyhood stories, and delved into the archives of libraries, history departments and local legend.
Here he discovered the tale of Laxman, who escaped the plantations, the Chateau d'If, as it were, that the Caribbean had become for the Indian workers who lived as slaves.
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