Rotorua will be the city on every director's lips once an Indian film crew release their movie Life of Josuty, according to those working on the film.
Local video producer Ron Michael was contacted by Backwater Studio - the South Indian studio making the romantic comedy - in April and helped them scout locations around the district.
"I think there were 26 people that came over from India," he said. "It's coming together beautifully because they shoot and they've got an editor here that puts it all together.
"They've got the components [to be a popular film] from what I've been told, if you have a top actor and top director, which they both are."
Mr Michael said the plot involved a woman who lives in Rotorua but returns to India to marry. She then brings her new husband, who is from a small village in India, to Rotorua.