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Sep- 2020 -26 September
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: Lost in translation…
There’s a right old ding-dong and it isn’t about Covid and whether seeing a film in a cinema is safe…
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17 September
‘Shut Up Sona!’ and Tannishtha Chatterjee’s ‘Roam Rome Mein’ and other films come to UK cinemas as part of London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) physical screenings…
Earlier this year, the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) went digital but with the opening of cinemas, it’s…
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14 September
Venice 2020: Indian director of ‘The Disciple’ Chaitanya Tamhane wins two awards… (wrap)
🎥 Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane wins screenplay and international critics awards at Venice for film about young musician and Guru…
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10 September
London Film Festival 2020 – ‘Mogul Mowgli’, ‘After Love’, ‘The Salt in Our Waters’ and ‘The Disciple’…(preview)
New and established talent hits the UK’s biggest film festival which is radically different this year because of the Coronavirus…
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Aug- 2020 -24 August
‘A Suitable Boy’: Modern choices presented in sumptuous costume period drama – but where does it lead us? (TV series wrap)
Stereotyped and dated, and unhelpful to modern mores – or faithful to the source material and the time? Our writer…
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22 August
‘A Suitable Boy’ – actors Namit Das, Mikhail Sen and Danesh Razvi talk about roles, working with Mira Nair and Vikram Seth…
HEAR what it was like playing the role of the suitors to heroine Lata Mehra in director Mira Nair’s TV…
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13 August
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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12 August
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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10 August
‘Churails’ director Asim Abbasi: Changing the narrative with this unique web series set in Karachi…
Digital offering is ambitious, challenging and director wants people to be exercised by its content… DIRECTOR Asim Abbasi has broken…
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10 August
Javaad Alipoor – award-winning playwright credited with bringing younger and more diverse audiences and technology into theatre, talks politics, elites, young people…
ACV caught up with Bradford-born talent who some feel is re-thinking theatre for a digital generation – and just as…
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