The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra has finally announced his next full-length film, and this time it is an international collaboration — he will direct the BBC adaptation of Julian Barnes’s 2011 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. The movie will star Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent and the rest of the cast is yet to be finalised.
“It came to me as an offer to direct. I always thought I would direct my own writings and I have been writing a few scripts. I took up this project not only because it is a very important piece of literature and I have always liked the book, but also because I absolutely loved the script. Making movies from books is no easy task. It has to function on its own.

Ritesh Batra at his Bandra office. Pic/Satyajit Desai