Batra's debut feature film "The Lunchbox", starring Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur, was a critical and commercial success.
"The Sense of an Ending", about a man haunted by his past, stars Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, "Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery along with Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Billy Howle, Freya Mavor and Joe Alwyn.
The screenplay of the film is by Nick Payne and it is produced by David Thompson and Ed Rubin.
"About a year after that I think the producers had seen my last movie, The Lunchbox, and came to me with an offer to direct. I was very curious to see what the writer had done with it. I read the script and obviously fell in love with it," Batra said in a statement.