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"Steven Spielberg met with some of Indian cinema&amp;#039;s most noted filmmakers in Mumbai yesterday (March 11).  The celebrated director took part in a Q&amp;amp;A session chaired by Amitabh Bachchan, in which he discussed his plans for making a film in India about the Indo-Pak war, his favourite Bollywood films and the possibility of collaborating with Indian filmmakers on a project, reports The Times of India.  &amp;quot;We have finalized a script for a movie that DreamWorks and our partners Reliance Entertainment plan to make together,&amp;quot; said Spielberg. &amp;quot;Part of it will take place on the India-Pakistan border in Kashmir. But we&amp;#039;re still trying to figure out the casting, locations and who&amp;#039;s going to direct it.&amp;quot; The Lincoln director admitted that he had not seen many modern Hindi films, but was familiar with the classic films of Raj Kapoor.  &amp;quot;I have seen excerpts of many,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Among the movies I&amp;#039;ve seen, I loved 3 Idiots. A long time ago, I saw the Indian classics - Raj Kapoor, Satyajit Ray. I loved Awaara. I thought it was a beautifully made, heart-rending story - a father putting his own son on trial.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve seen Mr Bachchan&amp;#039;s work in The Great Gatsby. He&amp;#039;s a wonderful actor and an iconic figure and his legend has carried all the way to America.&amp;quot;  The director, whose DreamWorks studio is partnered with Anil Ambani&amp;#039;s Reliance Entertainment, explained that there are no current plans for a Bollywood collaboration.  &amp;quot;A script hasn&amp;#039;t come along for that wonderful opportunity,&amp;quot; he replied. In an interview with NDTV, Spielberg said that he would be interested in a remake of a successful Hollywood film recreated with an Indian cast and crew.  &amp;quot;The experiment I&amp;#039;d like to conduct someday is to take an American movie and remake that film in India. Take that same story and remake that story with an Indian director and an Indian screenwriter to make the necessary adaptation.&amp;quot;  He added that he is planning a film about Martin Luther King Jr and the influence of Mahatma Gandhi on the civil rights leader.  &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t call it a biopic, it&amp;#039;s more a story of King and the movement and also about how his admiration for Mahatma Gandhi helped to shape his moral core,&amp;quot; explained Spielberg.  &amp;quot;About the slavery issue, it&amp;#039;s very hard for me to wrap my mind around how a group of people could ever - for profit or power - enslave another group of people.&amp;quot;  Spielberg, who has directed 29 films in his career and produced 350, explained how he decides which film he will helm as a director.  &amp;quot;When something seizes me and doesn&amp;#039;t let me breathe until I give up and give in and say, &amp;#039;OK, OK, I&amp;#039;ll do it&amp;#039;, those are the films I direct,&amp;quot; he laughed. &amp;quot;When I feel like my arm has been put into a half-nelson by the material and theme, I can&amp;#039;t rest till I&amp;#039;ve finished the movie.&amp;quot;  The director revealed that it was his dream to make a Bond film but was twice turned down for the job by producer Albert &amp;#039;Cubby&amp;#039; Broccoli. &amp;quot;I spoke to him after making Jaws, which was a huge hit, but Cubby said I wasn&amp;#039;t experienced enough and they&amp;#039;d call me if they did a Bond film on water,&amp;quot; Spielberg recalled. &amp;quot;After Close Encounters, I told him that by now I had two Oscar nominations. And he asked, &amp;#039;Did you win?&amp;#039; And I hadn&amp;#039;t. So that was that!&amp;quot;  The 66-year-old said that while financial considerations are a factor for him, creative integrity takes priority over commercial success. &amp;quot;We think it&amp;#039;s wrong to make movies that simply are being made to make the most amount of money,&amp;quot; he insisted. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t have made Lincoln had I thought that my criterion had to be commercial success before artistic content. &amp;quot;Lincoln made more money than many action movies, but I guess in the movie business, there&amp;#039;s room for surprise.&amp;quot;  Many of his movies have revolved around all-American themes and characters. So why does he think they have become such big hits globally?  &amp;quot;I think the world is increasingly on the same page, especially now that it is becoming more acquainted with itself through social media and faster platforms of communication. So, certain movies do hit the same chord across cultures and countries,&amp;quot; he said.  Rajkumar Hirani, Anurag Kashyap, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Abhishek Kapoor, Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Farah Khan were among the guests who attended the masterclass with Spielberg.  Spielberg arrived in Mumbai on March 10 for a four-day trip as a guest of the Ambanis, who attended the Oscars ceremony with the famed director last month. The director was recently announced as the  president of the jury at this year&amp;#039;s Cannes Film Festival, which will open with The Great Gatsby. Steven Spielberg&amp;#039;s career in pictures:   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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