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The British director, whose Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars earlier this year, has picked up the movie rights to Suketu Mehta's book Maximum City: Bombay Lost And Found, reports The Times.
Part travelogue and part autobiography, the book delves into Mumbai's dense criminal underworld, the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, the city's slums and the Bollywood industry.
Discussing Slumdog's production in India last year, Boyle referred to Mehta's non-fiction work as "my bible, really. I took it with me everywhere". The author has declined to comment on Boyle's involvement in a movie adaptation of his non-fiction book.
Slumdog Millionaire, about a boy from Mumbai's slums who wins the jackpot on India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, grossed $353 million at the worldwide box office and won eight Academy Awards, including best film and best director for Boyle.
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