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It’s been 30 years since Hollywood director Steven Spielberg was last in India and the inveterate people-watcher says theres a lot more traffic today but people are essentially the same,going about their business.
Three decades ago,Spielberg could go unnoticed in this country but not anymore,and certainly not now,after the Oscar-winning success of his latest film,Lincoln.
Although he doesnt have a subject for a film on India,Spielberg said he would like to remake a Hollywood movie in India. An experiment Id like to conduct someday is to take a movie we make in America,and remake it in India. We take an Indian director and a screenwriter,and adapt it with an entire Indian cast, Spielberg told The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTVs Walk the Talk programme.
I dont design a film around a megastar,the script is the most important thing for me. Its more important to put forth the story than who stars in it. I had a great story about Abraham Lincoln that may have never been made without the performance of Daniel Day Lewis. But a really great story should be good enough, Spielberg said.
Anil Ambanis Reliance Entertainment has a 50 per cent stake in Spielbergs Dreamworks SKG.
While Dreamworks is co-producing a film on the founding of WikiLeaks,Spielberg said he was interested in telling the story of Martin Luther King and also the future of computers.
