MUMBAI: Shringar Cinemas has fixed the price band at Rs 47-53 for its public issue of 81,500,000 shares of Rs 10 each. The IPO will be through a 100 per cent book-building process to finance its expansion plans.

The size of the issue will be Rs 383 million at the upper end of the price band and Rs 431.9 million at the lower end of the band.

The seven-day issue will open on 5 April. Shringar Cinemas operates a chain of multiplexes and distributes movies. "The price band is fixed," Shringar Cinemas managing director Shravan Shroff confirmed.

Out of the present issue, 50 per cent (39,50,000) shares are reserved for allocation to Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) on discretionary basis, 25 per cent (19,75,000) shares are reserved for allocation to Non Institutional Bidders and 25 per cent (19,75,000) shares are reserved for retail individual bidders both on proportionate basis. The balance 2,50,000 equity shares are reserved for allotment to employees of the company.

The promoters' holding will come down from around 65 per cent to 48 per cent. G W Capital, a private equity investment firm which had picked up 35 per cent stake, will bring down its stake to 26 per cent after the IPO.

The company had filed draft red herring prospectus with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 14 January. Enam Financial Consultants Private Limited and JM Morgan Stanley Private Limited have been appointed as book running lead managers to the issue.

Shringar Cinemas's plans for 2005 include the opening of two four-screen multiplexes in Mumbai and two three-screen multiplexes in Pune and Hyderabad.