Indian cinema most prolific in the world: Oliver Stone

Mumbai: Three-time Oscar winning actor-director Oliver Stone finds Indian cinema as the most prolificindustry in the world.

According to Stone, who will be conferred with thelifetime achievement award at the 12th Mumbai Film Festival,Indian cinema inspires people's desire to be flexible in life.

"It is only in Indian movies that you can shift fromcomedy to romance and tragedy which symbolises life ingeneral," he told reporters.

On whether he would make a film in India with Indianactors, Stone said he would love to, especially if he had tohave the luck of Danny Boyle.

Stone's Alexander Revisited will have a specialscreening at the festival tomorrow.

"The film has not been released anywhere except theUS. The original was released in November 2004 aftercompleting the shooting in March that year. The postproduction schedule was very tight. It did poorly at the boxoffice in the US and other English-speaking countries. Theoverall box office collections were $150 million," herecalled.

Stone said he decided to re-release the film afterre-working on it.

"Chemistry among actors, timing and luck play a veryimportant factor. Every film has its own destiny. Once itcomes out, it stays on celluloid. Some movies are instant hitsand some grow over a period," he said.

The actor-director, who arrived in Mumbai fromSingapore, said visiting India was like a homecoming."I have shot in Laddakh for Alexander and have veryfond memories."

Stone said he grew up watching popular cinema. "Later,I studied Satyajit Ray in my film school."

Stone said the sequel of Wall Street (1987), WallStreet - Money Never Sleeps (2008) did not do well because itturned out to be different and contrary to the audience'sexpectations.

"They were expecting a different Oliver Stone," hesaid, adding that the sequel to Wall Street was a familydrama of betrayal, love, trust with the Wall Streetdevelopments as a background.

"I can never remake a movie. Both versions of WallStreet matched their time."

Stone said he changed his style for every film."Both Wall Street and the sequel were very differentfrom each other. The 2008 film contained the visual languageof television."

The filmmaker said he was critical of former USpresident George W Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq andhighlighted it in his movie W.

"I am strongly against war and portrayed it through myfilms," he said.

Stone said he was working on a 12-hour televisionseries on the untold history of the US, which will be outnext year.

"It is factual that is lost to history and will bedepicted with archival footage and narrative," he said.