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Rare response from Richard Moore comes after state news agency posted video mocking western intelligenceThe head of MI6 has thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a James Bond spoof video in response to a statement he ma…
Read MoreFrom a Somali love story to a deep dive into Congolese rumba, Guardian writers pick their favourite recent world cinema releasesRead more: Books that explain the world: Guardian writers’ nonfiction reads of the yearThe Great Indian Kitchen Continue rea…
Read MoreIndia’s stunning 1983 World Cup triumph is retold in endearing style by a sports film with a sharp anticolonialist drivePreviously a fashioner of star vehicles for Salman Khan, director Kabir Khan anchors this nimble and big-hearted biopic of the India…
Read MoreOver-reliance on a spooky score and clunky pacing mean that Vishal Furia’s remake of his own film simply reiterates the original’s dubious and simplistic talking pointsVishal Furia’s long-awaited Hindi remake of his Marathi-language horror Lapachhapi f…
Read MoreAs a boy, the Tamil director saw movies made in the market where he worked. Now he’s India’s choice for awards gloryAs a child labourer working in the flower markets of Madurai, there was nothing more exciting for PS Vinothraj than when the film crews …
Read MoreWhen she started out 50 years ago, Fiona Clark’s work was met with rejection. Now she’s the subject of an admiring documentaryWhether documenting the crackling raw energy of Auckland’s fledgling punk rock scene in the 1970s or the hedonistic glamour of…
Read MoreMichal Sulima follows piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe’s expedition to transport a piano to a village school high in the HimalayasThe lesson to be learned from Michal Sulima’s documentary is that if you’re planning to transport a piano to a village school …
Read MoreThe 2019 protests spawned documentaries that may never see broad release amid growing intolerance of anything linked to the fight for democracyWhen the DVD came back shattered, it felt like a sign. The creators of Hong Kong protest documentary, Inside …
Read MoreNarendra Modi joins in mourning for much-loved star of southern Indian cinemaPuneeth Rajkumar, a leading star of southern Indian regional cinema, has died after a heart attack. He was 46.Rajkumar had performed lead roles in 29 movies and also appeared …
Read MoreA gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries• I Am Belmaya reviewBelmaya Nepali’s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a …
Read MoreIn the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-makerAfter she took up film-making, Belmaya Nepali had to face disapproval from her husband and her highly patriarchal village in Nepal; but this was only…
Read MoreAn elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentaryHere’s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple’s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in …
Read MoreThis engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to IndiaThe memory of the Beatles’ relationship with India is revived in this engaging documentary, and if there i…
Read MoreOne of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libido, caesareans and more. She discusses power, pay and the reality behind the glamourDays after giving birth to her first child – an emergency c…
Read MoreGrown adults behave like horny kids in this ill-judged comedy, meant to start discussion about contraception in IndiaThe eyebrow-raising title is intentional: Satramm Ramani’s comedy has been fashioned after 2017’s Toilet: A Love Story and 2018’s Pad M…
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