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‘Bandish Bandits’ – Meet Shreya Chaudhry, Ritwik Bhowmik and director Anand Tiwari (video)
This new Amazon Prime series has been causing waves, we got a chance to talk to the two main leads…
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Art
‘Eastern Encounters’: The Raj story from the inside – a more intimate Royal portrait (exhibition)
Changes in the relationship between India and Britain are reflected in a new exhibition of paintings and photographs from The…
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Tara Arts – new head Abdul Shayek outlines vision for more diverse, inclusive, and imaginative theatre in the UK…
One of Britain’s most important theatre companies has a new director, replacing Jatinder Verma and Abdul Shayek has been speaking…
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Romesh Ranganathan’s comedy travelogue wins Bafta and diverse talents begin to make impact; Idris Elba wins Special Award…
It was an unusual Virgin Media TV British Academy Television Awards (Bafta) this year and memorable in more ways than…
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Film
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: Stepping out, calling out, when it rains, it pours – Sushant Singh Rajput, Akshay Kumar, AR Rahman, Salman Khan…
As the late Sushant Singh Rajput dominates entertainment headlines, Bollywood crawls back to normalcy one step at a time, reports…
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Sanya Malhotra on her role in ‘Shakuntala Devi’ biopic video interview and pictures… (Amazon Prime Friday, July 31)
In this interview filmed in London last summer when Sanya Malhotra was shooting for the role of Shankuntala Devi, the…
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‘A Suitable Boy’ – Mira Nair’s TV adaptation is captivating after a slow start… (review)
Regarded as a modern classic, making TV from it, will inevitably divide… DOWNTON done Brown. When acv talked to Mira…
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Film
AR Rahman – Hitting the high notes with ‘Dil Bechara’ album for Bollywood film
🎼 Burden of expectations already high because of Hollywood film 🎼 Tells acv he likes to know about the director’s…
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‘A Suitable Boy’ – director Mira Nair says Indian cast and shooting vital to showing subtleties of language and culture in TV adaptation of Vikram Seth novel
🎥 Mira Nair placed high emphasis on culture from which 1,300-word plus period novel, ‘A Suitable Boy’ by Vikram Seth…
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A Disputable Boy – A missed opportunity for British Asian Talent…? By actor Irvine Iqbal (opinion)
It is one of the most ambitious period drama productions ever mounted in recent times by the BBC and is…
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