Ritesh Batra: The world is becoming a smaller place and the stories have to travel

After gaining global acclaim with films like 'The Lunchbox' and adapting Booker Prize-winning novel 'Sense of an Ending', filmmaker Ritesh Batra hopes to direct a movie someday that brings cinema greats of India and west together.
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His debut feature film, about two lonely people who meet due to a mistake by Mumbai's highly efficient dabbawalas' delivery system, became a great success globally.The director hopes his second film 'Sense of an Ending', a screen adaptation of Julian Barnes' 2011 novel and starring Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent, '45 Years' star Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Dockery of 'Downton Abbey' fame, will find similar acceptance, says a report in IndianExpress.com.
"The world is becoming a smaller place and the stories have to travel and intermingle' To be able to tell a British story in English language worldwide is great for me. It would be great to make a movie where I have great actors from east and west. I would love to do that. We have such great talent in India,' Batra was quoted as saying in an interview.
'Sense of an Ending' has already sold worldwide and Batra is hopeful that the audience that watches the English movie, will also follow him to the next Indian project that he does. "I would like to bring that global audience to my Indian stories. I want to make this film and go and make an Indian movie and then come back and do another English film. What we have managed to do with 'Lunchbox', we are hoping to do it with this one on a bigger scale," he was quoted as saying.
Batra loved 'Sense of an Ending' and says the author was really supportive during the making of the film. 'It was one of the books that I always loved. Julian Barnes was at the shoot many times and he recently saw the finished film and he loved it. He has been really supportive and put a lot of trust in me. You have to kind of live up to that,' he was quoted as saying.