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Festivals
London Film Festival 2020 – ‘Mogul Mowgli’, ‘After Love’, ‘The Salt in Our Waters’ and ‘The Disciple’…(preview)
New and established talent hits the UK’s biggest film festival which is radically different this year because of the Coronavirus…
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ACV Bird Eye Review Show – episode 6 – ‘Khuda Haazif’, ‘Churails’, Sadak 2
Check in with what our reviewer made of the above – what do you think? #KhudaHaafiz #Churails #Sadak2 Weclome to…
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Jashn-e-Rekhta – Urdu festival celebrating poetry, music, and cinema comes to London for the first time and in a digital edition
Urdu and Hindi are phonetically the same and gave rise to a rich literary tradition that itself gave birth to…
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Venice 2020: Two Indian films, ‘The Disciple’ and ‘Meel Patthar’ (‘Milestone’) head to film festival as season starts despite global pandemic…
One film appears in the main competition section and for both directors Chaitanya Tamhane and Ivan Ayr, it’s a return…
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Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes – Glasgow to Mumbai and back as more blockbusters come into view…
What’s been going on in Bollywood, our intrepid Mumbai cineaste has been taking the temperature… by Rodrigues C So, UK…
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Pandit Jasraj – ‘A Remarkable God Given Voice’, Jay Visvadeva (tribute and obituary)
One of the world’s great Indian classical music singers died recently, prompting many including the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
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‘Tenet’ – Well worth the ride, but stick to the Christopher Nolan world you find yourself in…
Few directors demand this level of letting go of reality… EXHILERATING and enthralling – director Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ is a…
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‘A Suitable Boy’: Modern choices presented in sumptuous costume period drama – but where does it lead us? (TV series wrap)
Stereotyped and dated, and unhelpful to modern mores – or faithful to the source material and the time? Our writer…
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‘A Suitable Boy’ – Few could have seen this coming as series explodes with major character incidents (review) Episode 5/6
If you have seen episode 5, here’s a recap, if you haven’t, don’t read this, there are major plot spoilers……
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‘A Suitable Boy’ – actors Namit Das, Mikhail Sen and Danesh Razvi talk about roles, working with Mira Nair and Vikram Seth…
HEAR what it was like playing the role of the suitors to heroine Lata Mehra in director Mira Nair’s TV…
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