The Last Lear has been on the international circuit for a while now but there are still no signs of the film releasing in India as yet. The buzz is that this Rituparno Ghosh directed English film for Planman Motion Picture Company, has no takers.

The few distributors for whom the film was screened have apparently shied away. It is believed that the not-so-flattering reviews have not helped the case either. But the film's producer Arindam Chaudhari begs to differ. According to him, the film has been very well received by audiences in Toronto, London, Rome, Dubai, and Goa. He is planning to release the movie in April with TV promotions starting in February. Planman will also release the Rajat Kapoor's Mithya and Saurabh Shukla's I Am 24 this year. As for the other Rituparno film, Sunglasses, starring Jaya Bachchan, Konkona Sen Sharma and R Madhavan, the film will apparently be released later this year. Sunglasses has taken a while because of its extensive post-production. Anyway,the reports are that Ghosh has overshot the budget for The Last Lear. But Chaudhari rubbishes saying that given the cast of the film, Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal, it is a reasonably budgeted film. A commercial film with the same actors would have cost so much more, he feels.