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Film
‘Souad’ – brilliant and intimate portrait of teenage life and online pressures and challenges… (review)
Festival favourite is now a British Film Institute (BFI) release and available to see in cinemas in the UK… (mild…
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Film
‘Into Dust’ – Oscar winning documentary director Orlando von Einsiedel’s first narrative drama packs a punch and commemorates Pakistani Perween Rahman’s work…
Actor Sudha Bhuchar tells us what it meant to play Rahman’s sister Aquila Ismail in the drama rooted in the…
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Film
‘Bell Bottom’ – casting Akshay Kumar, Adil Hussain, Scottish delicacies and fashion parade 1980s…
Bollywood blockbuster opens tomorrow (August 19) in cinemas worldwide – well, not quite… IF EVER there was a film to…
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Books
‘Moth’ – debut novelist Melody Razak’s stunning work is a powerful addition to Partition memory…
On the day that the boundaries of Pakistan and India were first published in 1947, we review a novel directly…
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Main Headlines
Independence Days – Wembley Park; learning lessons from history, assassin Madan Lal Dhingra; stars sing for India; and community Jashan e Azadi…
A few events that seek to mark the birth of two nations… AS BOTH Pakistan and India prepare to celebrate…
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Film
‘A Thin Wall’ – UK screening and director talk for film that gets up and close about Partition on both sides of the divide and also asks about the future…
Documentary is affecting portrait of people, their memories, images and artwork… THERE’S an opportunity to catch a poignant, moving and…
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Art
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: 20th century designs – hugely influential artist gets first major UK retrospective…
Creative, brilliant and completely unique for her time, this artist had much to say about the 20th century and her…
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Main Story
‘Evening Conversations’ (and ‘Life Laundry’) – the real talk that we should all be having… (review)
One-woman show is poignant, powerful and funny and makes for a wonderful evening… SUDHA BHUCHAR has a great story to…
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Main Story
‘East is East’ – full cast announced, play celebrates 25 years…
Popular play is back from the autumn… ‘EAST IS EAST’ – the original play celebrates 25 years this year with…
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Festivals
Venice 2021 (preview): ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’ heads to festival as filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta returns to city of first triumph…
Acclaimed filmmaker shoots another fictional ode to a city he grew up in and loves… AWARD-WINNING Indian film director Aditya…
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