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Sienna Miller is in Mumbai to promote her short film Global Cooling which also stars Amitabh Bachchan and has been directed by Shekar Kapur. Here is her interview of her where she talks about her love of India.

Do you like India?
I love India, I love the Indian food and I love Indian people!

Is this your first visit?
No, I had visited Darjeeling about eight years ago with my sister. It’s lovely there, but it is obviously very different from Mumbai

You’ve been involved in several causes including cancer awareness. How do you choose these causes and why are you so passionate about ‘Global Cool’?
Every cause is close to my heart, but I am very passionate about ‘Global Cool’ because I want to have children and I want them to live in a safe place. I didn’t know that each of us could make a lot of difference.

Like just putting the air conditioning down by one degree we help towards the cause, okay in my case it is the heater. We all know that global warming can cause huge problems like we recently had the Katrina, and then there were floods in India…you realise that something is going wrong, its time we did something about this.

Have you watched Indian films?
I have and I love them. Especially ‘Monsoon Wedding’ and also a film with Amitabh Bachchan in it. I didn’t really get to work with him on this film, we shot separately, but I know that he’s a great actor.

Are you planning to visit any other places in the country?
Not this time, but I am planning to come back next year with my best friend. We’ll spend a month in India and visit all the places here.

Are you coming with Keira Knightley, who is your good friend?
(Laughing) No…not her. Keira is a good friend but I don’t know if she will have that kind of time. I wouldn’t’ mind inviting her too, and see if she can manage it.

Would you like to do Indian films if you were offered one?
I would love to. Indian films are doing fantastic.