Motorcycle Diaries

The duo recently returned from a road trip across Rajasthan photographing the countryside and its people and exhibited their works at the Lalit. “As a story teller I feel compelled to tell stories through different mediums. It is all part of a creative process that helps me on another level in my films,” says Luhrmann,who has a bandaged right hand which he injured from falling off his motorbike during the road trip. In fact,Luhrmann also pitched in with the wall mural at the Le Sutra hotel with Vincent where they painted a dance themed painting. Luhrmann who is now ‘good friends’ with AR Rahman is planning to collaborate with the music composer in a project soon. “We share a great working relationship and will work on a project only when there is something special.He also composed the music for a video we shot in Mumbai recently,” he explains.

After his Hollywood disaster Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman,Luhrmann is working on a collaborative project with Vincent apart from beginning work on the adaptation of John Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby. “We have acquired the rights for the book and will soon begin casting for the project. There are other things at different stages of completion. But India figures in some form or the other,” he concludes.