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‘A Suitable Boy’ – A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief… (review)

Lush cinematography and a clear direction are helping build towards a suitable climax… JUST what is a ‘lipstick girl’? Whatever…

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VJ Day – Troops who fought with Britain remembered, battles of Kohima and Imphal, talks about Indian contribution to the Second World War…

In some ways Victory against Japan (August 15) was more significant to Indians than VE Day (May 8)… THIS year…

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South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) – Partition, Education, Feminism and Finale Party come into focus…

We are in the final straights of Britain’s first ever South Asian Heritage Month… IT’S THE CLOSING few days of…

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ACV Bird Eye Review Show (Episode 4 video) – Watch our Nat dissect the month’s biggest releases and what’s happening on the scene (hilarious love in the time of corona)…

Our look at what’s happening with web content… ACV’s Monthly web show features this month… 🎥 Entertainment news (July/August) SSR,…

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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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‘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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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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