Danny Boyle to produce a thriller on Mumbai night life

London, June 3 (PTI) After making it big at the Oscars
with the life of a Mumbai slum dweller who becomes a
millionaire, director Danny Boyle is planning to make yet
another film on the tinsel city of India, this time a thriller
based on its night life.

While Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire was inspired by
Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup's book 'Q&A', the forthcoming
thriller will be based on the novel 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost
and Found' by Suketu Mehta, an Indian-born journalist and
author based in New York.

According to a report in The Times, Boyle has bought the
rights of the critically acclaimed novel, which was first
published in 2004.

Partly a travelogue and partly an autobiography, the book
delves into the interconnected worlds of Mumbai's
slum-dwellers, dancing girls, underworld dons and Hindu
radicals.

The non-fiction work has been likened to everything from
Balzac's descriptions of Paris to The Arabian Nights.

Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars and grossed
over 220 million pounds at the box office. PTI HSR