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Baahubali to become India's most expensive film
Period film, which has drawn comparisons to 300, is being shot in the Tamil and Telugu languages hundreds of miles from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai
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Welcome 2 Karachi review – Indian scattergun humour gets lost in Pakistan
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Salman Khan can travel to Dubai awards show despite homicide conviction
India’s most bankable film star given five-year jail term for killing man while driving will attend Arab Indo Bollywood awards ahead of appeal in July
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Salman Khan's suspended sentence shows the extent of stars' VIP treatment
The news that the Bollywood actor has had his five-year prison term suspended will come as a blow for those who hoped money and power don’t pervert the course of justice
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Bollywood star Salman Khan’s jail term suspended
Actor found guilty on Wednesday of culpable homicide and other charges for driving his vehicle into group of homeless men in Mumbai in 2002
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Salman Khan: how a Bollywood star can stay out of jail
Despite his conviction, Khan doesn’t have to prepare for prison just yet. In a land where legal processes can drag out for years – and where the glitz of Bollywood goes a long way – he might still escape a sentence
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Salman Khan granted two day bail after five year prison sentence
Khan gets short period of relief after Mumbai court finds Bollywood star guilty of driving into a group of homeless people and killing one in 2002
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Why Salman Khan will never be guilty in the eyes of his biggest fans
As the social media outcry which met the sentencing of Khan shows, the star and the film hero are being conflated
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Screenings of Indian film Nanak Shah Fakir cancelled after mass Sikh protest
Dozens are evacuated from Cineworld Wolverhampton after screening of Nanak Shah Fakir is occupied by protestors, while film’s producer removes it from cinemas worldwide
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NH10 review - a misogynistic slasher movie with a topical twist
A couple travels to the countryside only to run into trouble in this often monotonous thriller
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Hunterrr review – half-hearted look at India's evolving sexual mores
This sex comedy’s lead is creepy and cringeworthy, but at least the film manages to take a small step away from the genre’s usual crass misogyny
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Jackie Chan to shoot first Chinese-Indian co-production
A groundbreaking treaty between the film industries of India and China results in the shooting of Kung Fu Yoga this autumn
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Documentary about gang rape wins Indian national film award
The director of the award-winning Daughters of Mother India contrasts her film with the banned India’s Daughter documentary, calling the latter ‘sensationalist’
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Delhi high court refuses to rule on India's Daughter ban
Chief justice will hear students’ petition to lift broadcast ban on rape documentary next week
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Questions of perspective on India’s Daughter | Letters
Letters: The documentary about the Delhi rape should also have said that this is a worldwide problem in which Britain has one of the worst records
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Fifty Shades of Grey banned in India despite removal of nudity
Controversial blockbuster denied release in yet another country but worldwide gross still heading towards $500m
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Jeffrey Archer: Bollywood 'a bunch of thieves' stealing his storys
The former MP and jailbird accuses Indian films of plagiarising his novels, which have sold tens of millions in the country
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India’s Daughter: ‘I made a film on rape in India. Men’s brutal attitudes truly shocked me’
Leslee Udwin spent two years making a documentary on the horrific rape and killing of young medical student Jyoti Singh. And it asks, has the attack really spurred a sea change for gender equality in India?
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1,009-week run proves too short for fans of DDLJ Bollywood classic
Spontaneous protests prompt Mumbai picture house to reverse decision to end screenings of popular romcom which it had been showing since 1995
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