Ritesh Batra: I bring a foreign eye to my Hollywood films

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 14 September, 2016

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Ritesh Batra is following up the success of his 2013 hit The Lunchbox with back-to-back, highly-anticipated international projects – The Sense of an Ending and Our Souls at Night – but for the director it is more about working with great actors than “going Hollywood”. He has begun shooting for his second international film Our Souls at Night, which is backed by Netflix and stars Hollywood veterans Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, in Colorado, in the US. Based on Kent Haruf’s novel, the story revolves around two elderly neighbours who seek companionship after the death of their respective spouses. “I…

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