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Pink review – subtle drama that grapples with India's rape culture
This story of a shaming campaign against three young Delhi women makes a powerful and progressive statement
Mike McCahill
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Lion review: Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman hunt Oscars in moving adoption drama
The true story of a man using Google Earth to track down his childhood home is often slight, but accomplished direction and themes of racial identity keep it on track
Benjamin Lee
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Indian director Mahmood Farooqui convicted of rape
The co-director of 2010’s Peepli Live has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in Delhi
Benjamin Lee
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Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy’s House: why I had to make a film about partition
I burst into tears when I found the house my grandfather was forced to abandon in Pakistan in 1947, and I knew then I finally had to tell our family’s story
Gurinder Chadha
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Disney's Jungle Book remake branded 'too scary for kids' by Indian censor
Central Board of Film Certification chair Pahlaj Nihalani lampooned on Twitter after claiming film’s 3D effects make the animals ‘seem to jump right at the audience’
Ben Child
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Airlift review – India's historic Kuwait evacuation retold as a one-man mission
Akshay Kumar is the businessman leading an expat exodus to flee Iraqi invaders – but the aggressors are reduced to cartoon villains in this turgid saga
Mike McCahill
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Wazir review – a finely poised Bollywood policier
This detective story starring Amitabh Bachchan and exploring the power play of chess is far from black and white – its ambiguities make for compelling viewing
Mike McCahill
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Bajirao Mastani: the movie Indian film-goers tried to ban for inaccuracy
The courts refused to censor this period Bollywood romance and rightly so. But while the historical howlers are irritating, its main problem is the imagined narrative is so dull
Alex von Tunzelmann
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Bollywood box office takings down for first time in five years
Increasingly sophisticated Indian audiences and competition from Hollywood blamed for Hindi blockbusters failing to ignite in 2015
Phil Hoad
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Bollywood star catches man watching illegal copy of her film Dilwale next to her on plane
Kriti Sanon condemned piracy and tweeted pictures to her followers after asking man to stop viewing bootleg copy of her new film on a flight to Delhi
Catherine Shoard and agencies
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Dilwale review – Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol reunite in cliched crime caper
The Bollywood stars rekindle their onscreen chemistry but in a Rohit Shetty-directed crime thriller that’s fast and infuriating
Mike McCahill
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Judge Singh LLB review – scrappy, winning slacker comedy
Atharv Baluja’s Bollywood underdog production about a would-be hero taking on corruption in India is wildly implausible and wholly likable
Mike McCahill
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Salman Khan's acquittal raises questions about India's justice system
Bollywood star’s conviction over hit-and-run death of homeless man was hailed as progress in India’s legal system. But now he has been acquitted
Emma Graham-Harrison and agencies
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 fails to satiate box-office bloodlust across the world
In this week’s roundup of the global box-office scene, The Hunger Games hits a franchise low with Mockingjay - Part 2 despite it being the year’s fifth highest opening
Phil Hoad
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The Crow's Egg review – fraternal adventure in dog-eat-slumdog Chennai
M Manikandan’s latter-day parable mines both laughter and tears from the struggles of two young brothers to put food on the table
Mike McCahill
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Salman Khan: 'I have no interest in doing Hollywood films'
The Bollywood star, who was recently convicted over a hit-and-run accident, has said he has no desire to work in America
Benjamin Lee
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Bond and gagged: Spectre's kissing scenes censored by Indian film certification board
The latest James Bond instalment has had its licence to thrill revoked after certification board orders scenes with kissing to be cut by 50%
Ben Child
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Saeed Jaffrey obituary
Engaging actor known for his many film and TV roles which included parts in The Man Who Would Be King, My Beautiful Laundrette and Coronation Street
Naseem Khan
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Saeed Jaffrey: nine essential performances
We look back over the career of the much-loved English-language and Bollywood screen star, who has died aged 86
Andrew Pulver
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Saeed Jaffrey, Bollywood and British screen legend, dies aged 86
Death of veteran actor who starred in Gandhi and A Passage to India as well as The Chess Players, Dil and Coronation Street was announced on Sunday
Nancy Groves
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Spectre pits 007 against his greatest adversary – international exchange rates
Strong dollar holds Spectre back, Peanuts Movie bids for a new generation and The Martian becomes Ridley Scott’s highest grosser in box office analysis
Phil Hoad
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Shaandaar review – a Bollywood caper set in Yorkshire that ain't half daft
Talking chickens, telepathic lovers and the Queen as an honorary Indian – this big fat wedding crowdpleaser is full of quirky humour, though it could do with a plot
Mike McCahill
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Indian film-makers return accolades in protest at unsolved political murders
A group of prominent film-makers have criticised the Indian government for their silence on the murders of rationalist artists Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 review - second helping of The Hangover, Bollywood-style, turns nasty at the end
The sequel to the popular comedy about a bunch of girl-chasing boys serves up a variation on the original theme – but can’t disguise its basic hostility to its women characters
Mike McCahill