No Takers for Woodstock Villa

Sikander Kher’s debut film, Woodstock Villa has no takers. According to our source, Sanjay Dutt has refused to be associated with the film, produced by Sanjay Gupta. And since then, very few people are ready to take on its distribution.

The film distributor Balaji Telefilms has opted out. Now Gupta has no choice but to distribute the film under his own banner. Ramesh Sippy of Balaji Telefilms says “We had bought the distribution rights ofWoodstock Villa from White Feather Films. But then we decided not to release the film. However I would not like to get into the details why we opted out of the deal with Gupta.”

According to a film trade source, “Gupta has already announced that the film will be releasing on May 23 2008 but there is not a single distributor coming forward to buy the film.” When we asked Dutt about it, he said that he has nothing to do with White Feather Films anyway. Gupta, meanwhile, keeps up a brave front, and says, “No one has backed out of the deal. It was a mutual decision. I have decided to distribute Woodstock Villa as White Feather Films has also started its own distribution division.”