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| Edited By: Soumyadipta Banerjee |Source: DNA |Updated: Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST
‘Whenever i am in mumbai, I devote all my time to her’
It was not just Slumdog Millionaire child actor Rubina Ali’s desperate e-mail that brought Danny Boyle to Mumbai. The film-maker had other plans too during his visit to the city last week. He wanted to spend some time with his daughter Caitlin, who stays in Mumbai and works with the Indian arm of an international NGO.
“Here she is, meet my daughter. She works in Mumbai,” said Danny pointing to Caitlin after making sure that no cameras were around to click her photographs. In fact, that was the only request the film-maker made — not to click her photograph.
Danny added, “I hardly get to spend time with her. So, whenever I am in Mumbai, I devote all my time to her.”
Danny had earlier supported the cause of the same NGO. Now, alongside his daughter, even he has decided to work for them. The NGO works to promote child rights.
“This is the city I will have to come in whenever it calls me. I had a very fruitful meeting with the representatives of the NGO. We have discussed the kind of work we need to do in future. They have a lot of plans and they sound amazing. It was Anil (Kapoor) who mentioned to me about them and since then the talks have speedily progressed,” Danny added, indicating that he will be working for this NGO on the sidelines when he comes back to Mumbai to shoot his next flick with Anurag Kashyap.
So is it true that both Rubina and Azhar have been offered roles in his movie based on Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City.
“They are always a part of the team. They are a part of the family and we are always there for them. I will be having a few more rounds of meetings with Anurag (Kashyap),” is all he said with his trademark smile.
‘I want to make something that Indians will like’
He is touted as the most promising film-maker in Sri Lanka. He has won the best debut film-maker award in Cannes making him the first Sri Lankan to win it. On the sidelines of the MAMI film festival, Vimukti Jayasundara revealed that he plans to shift base temporarily to Mumbai to make a film in India.
“I have grown up on Indian films. Now that I am in Mumbai, I have lined up meetings with a few production houses,” he said. He admits that his film might not be the usual Bollywood commercial masala flick. “I will make something very different, but I want to make something that Indians will like. I will start working on it after my next production, Between Two Worlds,” he added.
Talking about his award-winning documentary, Forsaken Land, Jayasundara said it was incidental that the ceasefire between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government was withdrawn within months of it being released. “The film became a talking point of the international community. I tried to show the plight that people go through when they are caught between two governments. When it released, all I know was that the ceasefire had been withdrawn by the LTTE. The intellectual fraternity in Sri Lanka is glad that it is over but I guess that none of us liked the way it was over,” he said.
