British director Peter Webber, best known for his Scarlett Johansson-Colin Firth starrer feature debut, ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, says he would love to make a film with Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan
As source revealed Peter Webber said in an interview, “He is a living legend. He is amazing and I would like to make a movie with him, which has elements of both India and England, basically a cross-cultural film. That would be interesting”.
The director is in India to judge the International Competition section at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival with filmmakers Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Ritesh Batra and Ron Mann. Webber said Bachchan and other Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan enjoy huge popularity in England. “There is a big Indian community in England, so we all know about Bollywood actors and they are really famous,” media reported.
Peter Webber is looking forward to watching some Bollywood films as he is not well acquainted with contemporary Indian cinema. Webber, who mostly chooses history as his main subject in his films, will next direct ‘Piano Tuner’, based on Daniel Mason’s acclaimed historical novel.
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