NEW YORK, March 26: Indian-born director Shekhar Kapur is to take over an unfinished project written by British filmmaker Anthony Minghella shortly before his death last week, Kapur said.“Two days before Anthony Minghella went in for an operation on a tumour they had just discovered, Anthony called me to see if I would direct a short he had written,” Kapur said on his website.

“I will direct the film now — with Anthony in my heart and in presence of his soul,” added Kapur, whose previous works include “Elizabeth” and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” Shooting for the project, “New York, I Love You,” a series of short love stories based in the city, was due to have begun in Manhattan next month, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Minghella, best known for the Oscar-winning 1996 film “The English Patient”, died last week at the age of 54.—AFP