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TIFF 2022 (cont: part II): SS Rajamouli & Hollywood; Shekhar Kapur and Shabana Azmi help inaugurate exhibition space and India’s NFDC promotes Land of Storytellers and IFFI53…
We continue our round-up of Tiff 2022 (cont)… TOP INDIAN director SS Rajamouli, whose film ‘RRR’ (‘Rise Roar Revolt’) has…
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‘The Cherry Orchard’ – Reimagined as a family space odyssey (video interview with writer Vinay Patel) & review
Doctor Who writer delves into space to explore uncertain future… LEANING on an image of his grandmother being the commander…
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‘Antigone’ – The Power and the Glory but whose? Classic Greek tragedy recast as urban potboiler
For the most part it works but having a Muslim family at the centre of it has both advantages and…
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Venice Film Festival 2022 – Italy and India pledge closer cultural relationship through film; Kabir Bedi award; Hrishitaa Bhatt interview and main festival gongs (wrap)…
Well-known actors Hrishitaa Bhatt and Kabir Bedi were both in Venice and our correspondent charts closer film ties between Italy…
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‘Silence’ – Bringing the Partition of India to life in this moving dramatisation…
Fine play tells individual stories… By Suman Bhuchar TO MARK the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India, artistic director…
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Artists, academics respond to sad death of longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II – dissenting voices criticism
Reaction to passing… SEVERAL members of the Asian artistic community have been recounting their experiences, talking with the Queen and/or…
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‘What’s love got to do with it?’ Stylish romcom – is Jemima Khan the new Richard Curtis with people of colour (ie, new British) eye? TIFF 2022 (review)
World premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) just hours ago…*** THIS is a lot of fun – there are…
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Aqib Khan signs off from his role as Adnan ‘Addy’ Masood in ‘Ladhood’ as BBC 3 Series ends…
He made his debut in ‘West is West’, fresh-faced and new to acting, and tells us what it means for…
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Recording family stories from Partition and other major historical events and beyond…
Collating the oral histories of families who came to Britain…could you help? DOES your family have a story about how…
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Theatre bird bites: Incredible stage work – Silence; Antigone; The Cherry Orchard; The P-word; Peaceophobia; Final Farewell; Glitterball; Brown Boys Swim; Exodus; Evening Conversations…
It’s a cracking month of theatre for asianculturevultures, don’t miss…(in chronological order) By Mamie Colfox Breaking the taboo after 75…
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