MUMBAI: A month before his first Indo-Canadian film Break Away goes on the floor, Akshay Kumar has gone ahead and signed a distribution deal with Alliance Films - the studio that earlier distributed noted films like The Lord of The Rings triology and Kill Bill.

Break Away, set against the backdrop of ice hockey, is very close to Kumar’s heart. “I have been always supportive of sports and I’ll do everything I can to ensure that the film shapes up well,” says the producer who is making the film under the banner of Hari Om Productions.

The film will be directed by Robert Liberman and has Canadian born Vinay Virmani pitted against Emily VanCamp.

Viramny, an ice hockey player from Canada’s south Asian community, has trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.