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Little Jaffna review – undercover cop thriller goes deep into French-Tamil gangland
Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrate…
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Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community
Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has…
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Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names
The big Diwali release is the latest entry in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cop Universe’, once again featuring Devgn as the…
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Kill review – ultraviolent Indian train thriller is finger-cracking good
This tasty piece of action cinema provides crunches, squelches and and spatter effects as the good guys and ba…
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Joram review – old and new worlds collide in pressure cooker man and baby-hunt
Director Devashish Makhija slowly ramps up the tension with a sharp eye for oppressive realism and social sati…
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Animal review – Ranbir Kapoor plays one of the vilest protagonists in cinema history
Kapoor plays the scion of a wealthy family whose violence is the result of a craving for love and validation, …
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Vikram Vedha review – swaggering Bollywood remake of Tamil crime caper
Pushkar-Gayatri’s reboot of their 2017 hit improves on the original thanks to two zingy lead performances from…
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Chup: Revenge of the Artist review – a killer Bollywood horror to frighten film critics
A thriller that skewers the tense film-maker/reviewer relationship in this tale of a Mumbai serial killer out …
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Post your questions for Freida Pinto
The actor will answer questions on Thursday on anything from her new film Mr Malcolm’s List to her career in m…
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Anek review – gunfights, boxing and what it means to be Indian
Anubhav Sinha’s action thriller asks pertinent questions about political conflict and cultural identity“Peace …
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Thar review – Anil Kapoor’s violent cop thriller puts the punch in Rajasthan
There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his s…
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MI6 chief thanks China for ‘free publicity’ after James Bond spoof
Rare response from Richard Moore comes after state news agency posted video mocking western intelligenceThe he…
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Sherni review – Vidya Balan joins the hunt for a man-eating tiger
Balan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest sat…
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Radhe review – Salman Khan blockbuster is a cheap dash through the fight tropes
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including nar…
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AK vs AK review – ingenious meta-feud of Bollywood heavyweights
Anurag Kashyap kidnaps the daughter of Anil Kapoor in a mock-doc thriller that skewers India’s showbiz sceneAf…