Award winning Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is planning to make a new movie on the Buddha, Times of India said.

Jayasundara, whose debut feature film 'The Forsaken Land' had won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, was in Kolkata recently for the research of his film. "I was recently in Kolkata and Bodhgaya for the research of my movie. Shooting should begin by the end of this year" he told Times of India.

Though a French production, the film will be shot in various Asian countries. "That includes India, Sri Lanka and even Japan," reveals the director.

The title of the film hasn't been decided as yet. In the interest of the movie, the plot is being kept strictly under wraps. "It is a fictional film. Not a direct biographical work," the director, who was in Kolkata for a day last week, told Times of India.
(With inputs from Times of India)