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Bollywood star and popular member of India’s celebrated movie dynastyRishi Kapoor, who has died aged 67 of bone marrow cancer, starred as a leading man in almost 100 Bollywood films and was a member of the remarkable Kapoor family of actors and film-ma…
International and Indian celebrities to take part from home in fundraising eventCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMick Jagger and Will Smith will be among dozens of international and Indian celebrities performing from their ho…
Khan, who had a string of Anglo-American successes under his belt, including Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and Jurassic World, has died in Mumbai • A life in picturesIrrfan Khan, the Indian-born actor who achieved considerable success in both Bollywo…
Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia’s brutal immigration detention regimeBehrouz Boochani’s award-winning debut book, No Friend But The Mountains, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Aust…
TV networks broke into their regular programming and one presenter had to apologise to viewers for screaming when the winner was announcedBong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a damning commentary on South Korea’s gaping wealth gap, but on Monday the country came…
The turmoil in Indian-administered Kashmir is an urgent topic but Ashvin Kumar’s coming-of-age film feels lifeless and leadenAshvin Kumar is an Indian film-maker who has made Kashmir an urgent focus of his career and was Oscar-nominated for his short f…
Ahvin Kumar, director of No Fathers in Kashmir, says it shows the plight of families and people in Britain must not ignore their sufferingA controversial film highlighting “disappearances” in Kashmir that premieres in Britain this week has led to fears…
Kazakhstan’s A Dark-Dark Man, Hindi-language drama Bhonsle and the Philippines’s Verdict among other winnersSouth Korean black comedy Parasite has continued its juggernaut trajectory by winning best feature film at the Asia Pacific Screen awards on Thu…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story The dialogue is a bit stilted sometimes, and, once all the wrapping is off, the big reveal is slightly silly, but this rare instance of…
20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film academy awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars – are to be held in India for the first time in their history this week.Mumbai will host the 20th…
A film charting Pat Farmer’s 4,600km dash across India piles on the platitudes, reducing an amazing odyssey to nippy travelogueThe Indian ascetic tradition can add another name to its ranks: former Australian parliamentary secretary and ultra-marathon …
Vivek Oberoi movie will tell ‘true story’ of reprisals after February attack in which 40 Indian troops were killedBollywood is to make a movie based on the “true story” of Indian air strikes on Pakistan this year, its producer said, the latest patrioti…
Trust in institutions has melted away – so stars such as Chopra, who was accused this week of ‘encouraging nuclear war’, are attempting to fill the gapAyesha Malik had more of a comment than a question. Malik, a 28-year-old Pakistani-American, had spen…
As the country seeks to establish itself as a space power, audiences are developing an appetite for the extraterrestrial on the big screenIn 2014, India sent the Mars Orbiter Mission into space, and became the first country to send a satellite to orbit…