From the global success of “The Lunchbox” to adapting the Booker Prize-winning novel “Sense of an Ending”, it has been an interesting journey for Ritesh 
Batra, who hopes to direct a movie someday that brings cinema greats of India and west together.
His debut feature film, about two lonely people who meet due to a mistake by Mumbai’s highly efficient dabbawalas’s 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.
Batra, who calls “The Lunchbox” a “real gift”, dreams of a world where stories are not hindered by language or region and he believes it is a real possibility in near future.
“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 told 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 further added.