Film
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Oct- 2022 -3 October
Asif Kapadia on ‘Creature’ and its world premiere at London Film Festival (LFF) 2022: “It’s pure cinema” (Main LFF preview, see below…)
🎥 Sundance and Cannes award-winning documentary film ‘All that breathes’ comes to the UK for first time, video interview with…
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Sep- 2022 -30 September
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: ‘Brahmastra’ puts ooomph back into box office numbers
Epic starrer has reawakened the mainstream cinema market and has paid attention to new trends, including star Ranbir Kapoor talking…
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27 September
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022: round-up wrap of films: Awards for two Indian films
🎥 To Kill a Tiger – Nisha Pahuja documentary TIFF 2022 Amplify Voices Award 🎥 While We Watched – documentary…
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27 September
TIFF 2022 (cont: part II): SS Rajamouli & Hollywood; Shekhar Kapur and Shabana Azmi help inaugurate exhibition space and India’s NFDC promotes Land of Storytellers and IFFI53…
We continue our round-up of Tiff 2022 (cont)… TOP INDIAN director SS Rajamouli, whose film ‘RRR’ (‘Rise Roar Revolt’) has…
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17 September
Venice Film Festival 2022 – Italy and India pledge closer cultural relationship through film; Kabir Bedi award; Hrishitaa Bhatt interview and main festival gongs (wrap)…
Well-known actors Hrishitaa Bhatt and Kabir Bedi were both in Venice and our correspondent charts closer film ties between Italy…
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11 September
‘What’s love got to do with it?’ Stylish romcom – is Jemima Khan the new Richard Curtis with people of colour (ie, new British) eye? TIFF 2022 (review)
World premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) just hours ago…*** THIS is a lot of fun – there are…
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1 September
Asif Kapadia-Akram Khan collaborative film world premiere at London Film Festival 2022; four South Asian works; full LFF programme announced today…
Lots to look forward to at London Film Festival (LFF) this year including four South Asian films and new work by Asif Kapadia… By Mamie Colfox and Sailesh Ram AWARD-WINNING…
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Aug- 2022 -30 August
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: Flops, boycotts, trolls and rip-offs – another excruciating month…
The mainstream Hindi movie industry is in the doldrums, big budget releases are failing to send punters back into cinemas…
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23 August
Bird Bites: Reprisal of hit Bollywood dance show at Sadler’s; ITV’s new police procedural with ‘Vigil’ star Mohindra; Imax first for Mani Ratnam epic, ‘PS-1’; and ‘Pippa’
What to sink your teeth into over the next few weeks… THE LONDON PALLADIUM’s dance show ‘Beyond Bollywood’ is returning…
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21 August
Top Bollywood director Sabbir Khan: “The industry is going through a ‘correction phase’ and everything will be all right,” he tells acv…
The list of failures at the box office is getting longer, stars no longer guarantee success and everyone is asking,…
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