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Unfair & Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against…
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Fighter review – India’s pizazz-free Top Gun weighed down by patriotic propaganda
Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone can’t inject feeling into an air force love story with lifeless CGI and ob…
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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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Bawaal review – redemption romcom in spectacularly poor taste
While the premise – an awful man learns from his much better wife – is serviceable, the plot, centring on a to…
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Bollywood’s fair skin fixation helped drive me away
Actor and former Miss World announced move to US at pinnacle of her fame in India eight years agoThe Indian ac…
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Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway review – Rani Mukerji goes dowdy in mama-drama ordeal
Adaptation of a nightmare true story about a woman whose children were removed by the Norwegian state gets pas…
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Pathaan and the king of cinema blast Bollywood out of the doldrums
Millions flock to see return of actor Shah Rukh Khan, despite rightwing calls for a boycottFor Ganesh Lokhande…
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Bollywood is obsessed with Pakistan. We’d be flattered if it weren’t so nasty
Try as the industry might, Modi’s quasi-fascist politics cannot be set to jaunty music and helicopter stuntsIf…
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Bollywood under siege as rightwing social media boycotts start to bite
Laal Singh Chaddha is the latest film to face targeted attacks from anti-Muslim, Hindu-nationalist trolls who …
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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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Less Bollywood, more Tollywood: how Indian cinema’s hit machine flopped
Big releases with usually bankable male stars criticised for formulaic storylines as audience taste evolvesThe…
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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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Brahmastra Part One: Shiva review – peppy superhero franchise starter
Bollywood’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a star-studded special effects extravaganza with Ranbir…
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‘Nobody gave us a hope in hell’: 83, the feelgood film about India’s underdog cricket team
Director Kabir Khan shares his memories of India’s surprise World Cup win, and imbuing his unconventional biop…
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Raksha Bandhan review – women get a bad deal from dowry melodrama
Akshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly a…