AUG 11: Easily among the country's most versatile actors on the ``parallel movie'' circuit, Rahul Bose will soon be directing his debut film, Everybody Says ``I'm Fine!''. And to his pride, Twentieth Century Fox has committed to distribute it across the world even before a single frame has been shot.On a jaunt to Los Angeles, the actor (armed with his script) met with the Head of Acquisitions and Production, Twentieth Century Fox, ``who assured methat if we made the film as well as I'd written it, Fox would be glad to distribute it worldwide.'' The studio handed an agreement in writing, Bose says.If the film is eventually distributed worldwide by the studio, it will be the first ever Indian movie to be released across the globe, and that too by an international distributor. Aimed at urban audiences, ``the film traces the lives of four or five people in high society Mumbai and their interaction with the central character.''While in the US, Bose also met with representatives of William Morris, one of the largest and most prestigious talent agencies in the world, whose client roster includes such Hollywood greats as Tom Cruise and Martin Scorcese among others.Bose explains that a representative of the agency attended the Filmi Fundas Festival in London where three of the six Indian films playing (English August, Hyderabad Blues, Bombay Boys, Rockford, Split Wide Open and Godmother) featured him in the lead role.``BBC London invited me to the studio and ran a story on me,'' Bose adds excitedly, adding that William Morris is now formalising an agreement to represent him as a writer, an actor and possibly a director too in North America. The actor says, ``The agency categorically stated that once the film is made, they want to distribute it internationally.''While Bose himself is playing a small part in the movie, he says he has signed Rehan Engineer for the lead part. ``I don't think I have such a high opinion of myself to play the lead and direct myself,'' he says. Currently involved in pre-production responsibilities on the movie, Bose says he will begin filming on November 1, and should be ready with the product by the end of March next year. ``It's not a shoe-string budget, but it's not lavish either,'' he says of the film's scope.
