Updated On: 13 March, 2013 08:37 AM IST | | PTI
US filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who made several trips to India as a backpacker in '70s and '80s, feels Americans need to be more aware of Indian cinema and the director is keen to "build the cultural bridge" between the two countries
"I am not as aware of Indian cinema as I should be sitting here.
We don't have great access to Indian films in America," Spielberg told Amitabh Bachchan during a meeting with India's top 60 directors here last evening. The multiple Oscar-winning filmmaker said Indian films and cinema from the world did not make it to American television screens because of commercial reasons.