Ritesh Batra Is Shooting With in Colorado With Robert Redford & Jane Fonda

Ritesh Batra has come a long way since  The Lunchbox. After the globally acclaimed film he has moved on to his next, a film starring two Hollywood legends Robert Redford and Jane Fonda which he is shooting for in Colorado, US.

Describing the film Ritesh in a conversation from Colarado says, “ It’s based on a novel called Our Souls At Night. It was American novelist  Kent Haruf’s last novel before he passed away. It’s the  story set in Colorado about  two aging people who find happiness together. It’s a highly regarded novel.”

Ritesh is extremely happy to work with Redford and Fonda. “They are Wonderful! Extremely generous people. They are both wonderful and so eager and curious about their characters.”

Fonda and Redford play a couple re-discovering love in their twilight years.

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Not too many changes  have been made   in the screen adaptation, except for one character.

Elaborates Ritesh, “The daughter’s character is more of a presence in my film.She’s just mentioned in the novel.I’ve to work towards fitting the novel into a  new medium. I’ve to retain the soul of the novel.The novel and the film have to be like cousins, nice companions to one another.”

Ritesh has  hardly been in India lately.  “I was in London shooting another project The Sense Of An Ending , a screen adaptation of Julian Barnes’ novel featuring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling for a year. Then I went back to Mumbai for three weeks. Now I am here in Colorado shooting for Our Souls At Night.”

Vaibhav Choudhary

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