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Apr- 2020 -15 April
‘Sitara – Let Girls Dream’ – Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy tells acv why she wants to make animation films and her own inspiration…
Documentary filmmaker tackles grim reality… TWO-TIME Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy hopes her latest work will help to fight the scourge…
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9 April
‘At Home in the World’ – Arts charity offers £1,000 to Asian creatives to produce work online as a response to current global pandemic…
Open call for submissions from the Bagri Foundation… IF YOU’RE looking to create work online but worried about how you’re…
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7 April
On Ravi Shankar’s 100th birthday anniversary: Shankar 100 celebration postponed to 2021; British music producer Jay Visvadeva remembers maestro and assesses new biography, ‘Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar’…
Looking back and forwards at the legacy of one of the great cultural figures of this century and the last……
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Mar- 2020 -31 March
Indigo Soul’ – Unnati Indian classical music singer heralds British Indo-jazz, Indo-pop…
Artist represents a style of music with wide influences but has strong Indian classical roots… COMING from a classical Indian…
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26 March
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes – from our Mumbai correspondent (April) : Not coming soon, ‘Bambaiya philims’ on hold…
So, our Mumbai cineaste has much to exercise them, even if they are only four days into a national lockdown,…
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25 March
UK Asian Film Festival 2020: A tale of two films and what might have been… ‘Dolly Kitty and those twinkling stars’ and ‘Lihaaf’…
We would have been marking the first day of the UK Asian Film Festival, but for the Coronavirus crisis…still…we can…
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18 March
Mira Nair on ‘Monsoon Wedding The Musical’ 2020 – turning her global hit film into a Punjabi ‘Dilli’ song and dance wedding (video)
Don’t forget to subscribe (if you have not already) to our Youtube channel for more like this! IN THIS interview,…
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17 March
Actors’ Race Equality leader Daniel York Loh says fallout from Equity Laurence Fox apology is a ‘tragedy’ and says new group may emerge…
Row opens major rift between some members and main UK entertainment industry union… DANIEL YORK LOH – the chair of…
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15 March
‘The Good Karma Hospital’ – back tonight promising an explosion (not literally, we think…) Preview
Can we be entertained and diverted by a hospital-based drama (in an exotic location) that had much to recommend it…
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12 March
Indian filmmakers at the Berlinale 70 (2020): Pushpendra Singh, Rima Das, and Akshay Indikar; ‘The Shepherdhess and Seven Songs’, 14plus international jury member and ‘Sthalpuran’, respectively… (‘Eeb Allay Ooo’ to follow)
Berlin has come and gone but as with all things on the festival circuit many of the films and personalities…
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