Beaufoy back with Boyle for 'Maximum City'

Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy will work again with his Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle on Maximum City.

It was recently confirmed that Boyle will return to Mumbai to make a big screen version of Suketu Mehta's book Maximum City: Bombay Lost And Found, which explores Mumbai's criminal underworld, the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, the city's slums and the Bollywood industry.

"Maximum City is a non-fiction work, so it will be a huge challenge to find the story in it. It is a wonderful book and I used it in my initial research for Slumdog," Beaufoy told The Daily Telegraph.

"There are some great characters in the book, but no stories, so my job will be to get the fictional out of a non-fictional story."

He added of the book's setting: "It's such a vibrant, young city. Whereas in London, everything is in a sense hidden away, in Mumbai it's just all there in the open - all the emotion, all the characters."