After making it big at the Oscars with the life of a Mumbai slum dweller who becomes a millionaire, director Danny Boyle is planning to make yet another film on the tinsel city of India, this time a thriller based on its night life.
While Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire was inspired by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup‘s book Q&A, the forthcoming thriller will be based on the novel Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta, an Indian-born journalist and author based in New York.
According to a report in The Times, Boyle has bought the rights of the critically acclaimed novel, which was first published in 2004.
Partly a travelogue and partly an autobiography, the book delves into the interconnected worlds of Mumbai’s slum-dwellers, dancing girls, underworld dons and Hindu radicals.
The non-fiction work has been likened to everything from Balzac’s descriptions of Paris to The Arabian Nights.
Stay tuned in!
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