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Feb- 2018 -6 February
UK Asian Film Festival 2018: film stars Mahira Khan and Simi Garewal and broadcaster Anita Anand to grace fest
Festival marks 20 years of existence since creation as Tongues on Fire, originally – now renamed UK Asian Film Festival…
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2 February
‘Lies We Tell’ – A difficult love letter to Bradford…
New film is honest portrayal of society in flux says man who grew up there… MITU MISRA is not your…
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1 February
‘Around India with a Movie Camera’ – Old film tells hidden tales: Empire and new beginnings
A new film using just archive footage tells the story of the Brits in India and what life was like…
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Jan- 2018 -31 January
Jhalak Prize: Longlist features big, beautiful and emerging…
Only in its second year, this prize has gathered considerable excitement and attention… JUDGES behind Britain’s only literary prize dedicated…
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27 January
Jaipur Literature Festival (#ZeeJLF) 2018 Day 3: Shashi Tharoor on restating liberal Hinduism, and Helen Fielding and Amy Tan talk success…
Few can doubt there is a battle for the soul of Hinduism but a prominent Indian political figure says Hindu…
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27 January
Jaipur Literature Festival (#ZeeJLF) day 2: Drawing dots – filmmakers sizzle, crowds swoon – ‘Padmaavat’, Manto and even ‘Bandit Queen’ come under scanner, The Troth world premiere (review)
Directors Anurag Kashyap, Nandita Das, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui…are we in Cannes or at a book festival? WHETHER it was Bollywood,…
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26 January
Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 (#ZeeJLF) – Showtime: Rupi Kaur wins hearts and minds…
Jaipur Jaipur Literature Festival Day 1/5 The established (Pico Iyer and Sir Tom Stoppard) and new were very much on…
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25 January
‘The Troth’ – Indian First World War story turned into dance and imagined as silent film…
Classic short retold as dance with backdrop of real war footage… FOR THE FIRST time a British dance company has…
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25 January
‘Padmaavat’ our verdict …. Dazzling film should be cause for celebration as it was in Paris some years back in different guise…
Film has aroused strong passions in India, sparking strife and vandalism in some parts – but has been something the…
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19 January
