Film
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Jun- 2024 -25 June
Cannes 2024 – Global blockbusters? Megalopolis, The Apprentice, Emilia Perez, more; also Freud’s Last Session film out now (reviews)
As well as following all the Indian films at Cannes (May 14-25), we saw several of what might be called…
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23 June
London Indian Film Festival (June 26-July 3): New directors, new cities and marking 15 years…
Showcase of South Asian films and talents hits six cities in the UK and platforms new directors and new directions……
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20 June
‘Umro Ayyar: A New Beginning’ – Pakistani supernatural-superhero film is entertaining and has franchise potential…
It’s one of the biggest films to have come out of Pakistan in recent times… INSPIRED by a mix of…
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19 June
‘All We Imagine as Light’; ‘The Shameless’; ‘Santosh’ and ‘Sister Midnight’ Cannes 2024 video chat reviews Indian selections
We recorded our impressions of the Indian films we saw in Cannes this year… tell us what you think on…
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5 June
Cannes 2024 – It’s a wrap – winners all the way… Brits and Indians making waves this year… (gallery)
🎥 Four films about India featured in official selections this year (All We Imagine as Light; The Shameless; Santosh; and…
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4 June
Cannes 2024 – ‘All We Imagine as Light’ – Beautiful, tender, poignant and deliciously Indian…
With only her second feature writer-director Payal Kapadia has written herself into cinema history in becoming only the second filmmaker…
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4 June
Cannes 2024 – ‘The Shameless’ – powerful and motored by a stunning performance by Cannes award winner Anasuya Sengupta…
Cracking tale has potential feminist icon at the heart of the action… THIS ISN’T a film for the squeamish and…
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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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