India, July 2 -- James Gunn has had an illustrious career that boasts of some genre-defining superhero films, and as he gears up for the release of his next, Superman, the filmmaker beams while talking to us as he admits to being inspired from Indian films. "Bollywood films are important to me when I'm telling stories. What those films give to me is that they aren't afraid of making a movie that has heart, that has drama, but that's also funny, there's music, and all of those things are beautiful. That is what life is right? Life isn't just one genre, and that's where I take my inspiration from," he says.

With the ever-expanding superhero universe in the West, does James Gunn have a plan to find an Indian superhero for it soon too? "I wo...