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Bird Bites: ‘A Little Late with Lilly Singh’; ‘The Family Man’; ‘Hotel Mumbai’; Ranveer Singh at Madame Tussauds; Jhalak Prize open; Baahubali Live competition (enter now)

What’s been happening over the last few days, the bird’s been looking at… ‘A Little Late with Lilly’ – critics…

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Theatre to stimulate – from musical ‘Stardust’ to a stage version of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ it’s time to go inside and watch something live…

We will be looking in more detail at these plays in reviews and interviews soon… by Suman Bhuchar AH, THE…

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Asian Achievers Awards 2019: champions inclusivity with early diversity and media pioneer and UK lawyer who had role in repealing anti-gay section 377 in India…

An opportunity to turn the spotlight and platform some of our most inspiring figures… By Suman Bhuchar A JOURNALIST, a community activist, a lawyer and a…

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Controversial ‘Hitler film’ wins top Grolsch People’s Award at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and our TIFF 2019 (Dev Patel, Riz Ahmed, Farhan Akhtar and Priyanka Chopra, Jennifer Lopez, Natalie Portman and Adam Sandler)

The awards and a more personal take on our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2019… By Sailesh Ram…

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‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (review) – An ode to the good life, not in material riches, but in spirit

Toronto (TIFF19) English Classic gets wonderful treatment and speaks to, and of a heart, we should listen to… By Sailesh…

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Dev Patel and Armando Iannucci speak to acv on the red carpet for the world premiere of their film, ‘The personal history of David Copperfield’

Toronto 12am (-5hours BST) LEADING man Dev Patel who plays the central character of David Copperfield in Armando Iannucci’s third…

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Venice Film Festival 2019 – ‘Chola’ (‘Shadow of water’) violently tackles India gender issues

Director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan speaks to acv about his hard-hitting drama in which three people wind up in a bad…

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‘Baahubali – The Beginning Live’ comes to the Royal Albert Hall, with a full orchestra and stars Prabhas, Rani Daggabuti, Anushka Shetty, director SS Rajamouli and composer MM Keeravani and here’s your chance to see it for free…(p)

A massive hit at home and abroad, the epic Baahubali returns to London for a very special screening and let…

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London Film Festival 2019: Dev Patel, Bollywood stars and Indian Indies and Bangladesh doc all set for capital glitz

Dev Patel, Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar amongst the stars who feature in the line up at the 63rd BFI…

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Britain We Exist to launch tomorrow (August 30) and show contributions of South Asian LGBTQi communities to national conversations…

A special exhibition highlighting the role of communities often on the margins gets centre stage treatment at the Saatchi Gallery…

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