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Besides being Jagessar's first film, Guiana, 1838 is also 18-year-old Arti Bathija's debut vehicle and Kumar Gaurav's first period film.
Bathija (previous slide) plays the female lead, a young girl named Urmila who is brought as a slave from Kolkata.
Shooting in Guyana was not easy, both Kumar Gaurav and Bathija, a freshman at Fordham University in New Jersey, admit.
Kumar Gaurav had a narrow escape on the sets, when he missed being crushed by a 20-foot high steel container of sugarcane during an escape scene.
Worse, he was in shackles at the time the accident happened, all made of real iron and weighing about 20 pounds.
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"The shoot was tough, it was painful, long, odd hours," Bathija says. "But at the end of the day, acting's reward is emoting and being able to make the audience feel what the character is feeling."
Jagessar mentions Love Story, the film that made Kumar Gaurav an overnight star. "I felt that he had the intensity that I wanted Laxman to have," Jagessar says, recalling the actor's scene in Love Story when the heroine slaps him in public. "He was an example to the other actors, doing everything that he was told to, irrespective of the hours or the labour involved."
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