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Jun- 2024 -3 June
Cannes 2024 – ‘Santosh’ – Brit Sandhya Suri’s first fiction feature film is absorbing procedural
A crime story essentially this packs in a lot… SET in the Badlands of northern india (almost its official description),…
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2 June
Cannes 2024 – ‘Sister Midnight’ – Radhika Apta’s brilliance, new British writer-director Karan Kandhari comic absurd tour de force…
Review of film that had its world premiere in Cannes and was quite unlike anything else we saw there… QUIRKY,…
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May- 2024 -31 May
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes – May heat saps filmgoing public with little to excite but online…
As big Bollywood fare stays out of theatres probably due to the Indian heatwave, here’s the rest that’s bubbling away……
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28 May
Sonali Bhattacharyya: Sharp political writing about young people makes for entertaining drama…
Award-winning playwright has knack and talent of finding young people stories and giving them centre stage and talks about why…
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22 May
Cannes 2024 – Bollywood star Aditi Rao Hydari and celebrated cinematographer Santosh Sivan help launch IFFI 55 (2024)
We hope to have pictures and video from the fireside chat with Santosh Sivan – who is being presented with…
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18 May
‘Test Match’ – Spicy encounter has us looking back and forwards…
Playwright looks at modern day cricket match to explore colonial legacies… THERE are always risks when trying to mix the…
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13 May
Bafta 2024 – Mawaan Rizwan wins Bafta for ‘Juice’; Romesh Ranganathan wins for ‘Rob & Ramesh VS’ (videos)
MAWAAN RIZWAN almost stole the show as he went to collect his Bafta for Best Male Comedy Performance – he…
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13 May
UK Asian Film Festival celebrates Shabana Azmi with Lifetime Achievement Award…
Shabana Azmi and Navin Chowdhry (pic: Kalpana Doshi) FASHION designer Rina Dhaka and singer Kavita Krishnamurthy were the star attractions…
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1 May
‘Heeramandi’ – culmination of 18 year dream says director Sanjay Leela Bhansali at LA Netflix screening (short review)
One of India’s great auteur directors’ first series for a streaming channel dropped earlier today on Netflix and the channel…
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Apr- 2024 -17 April
‘Silence’ play – Affecting drama and hugely powerful in telling hidden stories…
Play first developed from personal memories at the time of the Partition of India now has new staging and mostly…
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