Christopher Nolan wants to learn from Bollywood

The film-maker is currently in India to promote the use of celluloid films

MUMBAI: Multiple Oscar-nominated film-maker Christopher Nolan, known for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, says he is interested to watch and know more about Indian cinema.

On a visit to India to create awareness about celluloid films in the digital era, Nolan was asked if he has watched any Indian films. The film-maker replied, "I have watched some Indian cinema, just not enough though. But I enjoyed the films a lot and would love to watch more of them."

The Insomnia director interacted with many iconic personalities of Bollywood including Shah Rukh Khan and Kamal Hassan on the subject matter of 'Reframing The Future Of Film in India'.

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"One of the reasons I am in India is to meet more people from the Indian film industry. I want to engage with the people from one of the greatest film culture of the world and learn more about it," added Nolan.

Being an iconic film-makers who made films like Interstellar, Dunkirk, Inception using high-end technology, supporting the celluloid film is quite a traditional thought. Asked about how he reconciles these two, Nolan said, "Film is a medium used to tell a story so you can use whatever technology you want."

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The ace director explained, "For example in Dunkirk, we tried to tell the story in an ambitious way. We used interesting structural techniques and approaches."

Born in 1970 in London, Nolan had a keen interest in storytelling which eventually transformed into his aspiration to become a professional film-maker. At the tender age of seven, he used his father's camera to make short films. At the age of eight, Nolan, who was highly influenced by watching Star Wars made a stop motion animation called Space Wars.

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It is fascinating to observe how the man with so well-versed with use of modern technology, living in a digital era of 21st century, does not use social media and cell phones which otherwise are a part of every global citizen.

When question on what made him stop using social media, Nolan answered, "I am not really interested in social media. We may live in a digital age but we are also living in an analogue world. One of the interesting things about celluloid film is that it has a very good relationship with the real life."

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Asked if he would like to make a film to address political issues like Steven Spielberg's The Post, Nolan stated that he tends to be more instinctive about the choice of stories that grab his attention. "I think it is more important for me to present myself as a practical film-maker. I think it would be very difficult for me to muster any enthusiasm," shared 47-year-old Nolan.

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