Drama films
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Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality
Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to ci…
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Cemetery review – elephant heads for the graveyard in hardcore art piece
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity…
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The Disciple review – Indian classical musician sings a lonely tune
Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with modern society in this melancholy film fr…
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Gulabo Sitabo review – mildewed mansion drama bustles and crumbles
Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana star in Shoojit Sircar’s puzzling tale of class and property managemen…
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Kashmir human rights film divides UK’s Indian and Pakistani communities
Ahvin Kumar, director of No Fathers in Kashmir, says it shows the plight of families and people in Britain mus…
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Sex, drugs, politics: how the streaming giants are blowing up Bollywood
New Amazon and Netflix dramas take in themes that India’s established cinema rarely touches, with millions of …