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Movies deemed a security threat can bring penalties of up to three years’ jail under stricter law that also covers previously approved titles Hong Kong will scrutinise past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law in the la…
Read MoreActor said to be given exemption to film Amazon TV series, as territory braces for tougher travel rulesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs Hong Kong braces for more draconian Covid-19 travel restrictions to take effect from F…
Read MoreSupporters say attacks over choice of name similar to 17th-century Muslim Mughal emperor rooted in prejudice against inter-faith marriageBollywood star Kareena Kapoor has received abuse online from extremists over her new baby’s name.Kapoor has been at…
Read MoreKaran Johar-produced film about Vikram Batra, who died in the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict, promotes him as a model citizen – with model looks to bootHot on the heels of Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, last year’s biopic of one of the hardier combatant…
Read MoreA series of big films this year will focus on Indian military conflicts with Pakistan, reflecting an escalation of political belligerenceIndia’s military will take a starring role this summer. On 12 August, in time for Independence day on the 15th, Ama…
Read MoreIndia’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energyA woman explains how a group of four men repeatedly broke into her house and raped her; six times so far….
Read MoreBeauty technician Sachi and cigarette seller Parveen yearn for ‘freedom lives’ where they can proudly flaunt their relationships with other women in this free-form filmAn unnerving cacophony opens Priya Sen’s Yeh Freedom Life: it plunges straight into …
Read MoreRakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s film has high ambition but dodges complexity in favour of overheated melodramaPartly set in the Mumbai underworld, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s boxing drama aims at Raging Bull grit but has an unfortunately irresistible drift tow…
Read MoreDharmasena Pathiraja’s 1978 drama, now revived, elegantly broaches universal themes with its story of city slickers disturbing a fishing villagePainstakingly restored from the sole surviving, badly damaged 35mm print, this realist drama from 1978 is we…
Read MoreEight-hour series about Nursultan Nazarbayev criticised for stoking cult of personality of 30-year rulerOliver Stone has interviewed Kazakhstan’s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev for a new eight-hour film series which has been attacked as a hagiog…
Read MoreThe actor, who has died at 98, gave expression to the intense cultural complexities raised as independence met modernity – with respect, depth and subtletyRarely do Narendra Modi and Imran Khan agree, but the death of Indian film great Dilip Kumar unit…
Read MoreStar of Indian cinema who pioneered method acting in BollywoodThe veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who has died aged 98, was the pioneer of method acting in Bollywood. The early Indian film industry had drawn its acting traditions from the stage, and the exp…
Read MoreThe star was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema and was one of the country’s first method actorsBollywood legend Dilip Kumar, who was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema, has died aged 98.Kumar had been taken to hospi…
Read MoreFrom Mumbai noir to plantation Macbeth, Kerala’s more dynamic and independent-driven industry is responding urgently to the pandemicThe first occurrence of Covid-19 in India was officially recorded on 30 January last year in the city of Thrissur in the…
Read MoreBalan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest satirical thriller from Newton director Amit V MasurkarAfter the success of his 2017 political black comedy Newton, director Amit V Masurkar once…
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