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Mumbai on his radar
Updated On: 30 October, 2009 11:29 AM IST | | Payal Kamat
Paul Schrader is not new to Mumbai or Bollywood
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Paul Schrader is not new to Mumbai or Bollywood. The man who has written Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ and directed films like Blue Collar, A Life in Four Chapters, Party Hearst, and many others, has also watched D-Company and Sarkar Raj. Kagaz Ke Phool and Parinda on his list of most favourite films while the songs of Jodha Akbar and Jab We Met are always on his playlist. 
In Mumbai to judge the first-time work of international filmmakers at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival, Schrader answers some questions:u00a0u00a0u00a0
Has Slumdog Millionaire's win changed global perceptions about Bollywood?
Slumdog Millionaire has certainly made people aware of the money you can make with Mumbai.
Actually the film feels more like a British film and not a Bollywood film. As a phenomenon it has had a big impact globally. But truly, the NRI market is so huge that Bollywood doesn't need a Slumdog to make an impression. Even Ghajini made equal amount of money out of India.
'Mumbai is an extreme city'
What is it that attracts you to the genre of thrillers and crime?
Movies are always about extremes. In films, be it sex, poverty, violence or even love, everything needs to be depicted in the extreme. And so there will be films like City of God made and liked. This is what movies do. Crime is dangerous; the behaviour of the police as well as the criminal is exaggerated. People like to see this and I like to make what people will enjoy watching.
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