Chalbaud speaks at a news meet in Siliguri on Monday. A Telegraph picture

Siliguri, Nov. 20: Seventy five-year-old Venezuelan director Roman Chalbaud dreams of making a film on “a real Indian love story”.

The veteran film-maker is here to attend the ongoing seventh International Film Festival which is featuring his latest film The Caracazo, which received critical acclaim at the recently-concluded film festival in Calcutta.

Chalbaud said Indian films are more sound when set against the unreal fantasies sold across the world by Hollywood.

“I try to depict real life stories involving the masses in my films. I portray the socio-economic problems of the people in poor and third world countries,” he added.

He said more and more festivals should screen classic films to fight the upsurge in fantastic fare served by Hollywood and marketed by multinational TV companies. He said such film shows would in time create a worldwide audience for realistic movies.

“We are planning to organise a film festival in Latin America where classic movies of the third world countries including Indian, Polish and Brazilian films will be screened,” said Chalbaud.