Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur says he is seriously considering making an India-China film after completing his latest film 'Paani' (water), expected to hit the screen early 2015.
"After Paani, I am seriously thinking of doing a film on India and China," Kapur told PTI.
"And if a good project comes up, I would love to do it. I have been offered to do an India-China film many times," he said on the sidelines of the Asia TV Forum & Market conference being held here this week.
"I am just surprised that India and China have not made a film together at all," he added.
Kapur also thought Singapore was the obvious choice to do an India-China film, pointing out that the people of the two countries shares a lot of mythologies such as Hanuman and the Monkey God.
In his address to the conference, Kapur highlighted Hanuman and Monkey God as many of the common elements among Indians and the Chinese people.
Elaborating on his choice of Singapore to shoot films, he said the city state would have to attract creative people with incentives to set up their workstations here.
But to attract a community of creative people, Singapore must offer more than financial incentives and make it comfortable for them to live here. Every nation in the world is offering incentives, some as high as 30 pc to 40 pc, to filmmakers, he said.
"We are not businessmen. We are not aspiring to be wealthy. We aspire to be creative," he said.
