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Gurinder Chadha’s film is a glossy imperial version of India’s traumatic partition that scandalously misrepresents the historical reality
Fatima Bhutto
When he was five, he fell asleep on a train and ended up 1,000 miles from home. His journey from Indian street-child to adopted Australian is now the subject of an Oscar-tipped film. Here he and his biological mother talk about their reunion
Rory Carroll
Alankrita Shrivastava, the director of Lipstick Under My Burkha, calls Central Board of Film Certification’s decision ‘an anachronism’
Andrew Pulver
Seven decades after independence, Indian cinema is still struggling to depict the Raj, leaving its screen depictions – from Gandhi to colonial racism – to be viewed almost solely through British eyes
Joseph Walsh
Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson play the Mountbattens in Gurinder Chadha cheekily Downtonised but watchable version of history
Peter Bradshaw
Kung Fu Yoga was supposed to hail a new production link between the two countries, but Indian critics are calling the film old-fashioned and stereotyped
Andrew Pulver
The ban, introduced in 2016 during an escalation in tension between the two countries, was rescinded after Pakistan’s president gave his blessing last week
Sanjay Gupta’s tale of a blind dubbing artist avenging the ghost of his wife is the sort of nonsense the Indian film industry stopped churning out 20 years ago
Mike McCahill
The highest-grossing Bollywood film ever isn’t a romance, but the true story of sisters from a rural village who became world-class wrestlers. Now they’re hoping their sudden fame will inspire other Indian women to break free
Amrit Dhillon
A new account of the human toll of India’s breakup premieres next month
Vanessa Thorpe
Film starring Indian actor Aamir Khan based on true story of two female champions earns £41.7m in three weeks
Michael Safi in Delhi
Letters: Reach for your inner childlike wonderment, Catherine – and avoid combining two highly disparate subjects
Letters
Gurinder Chadha, who directed Puri in upcoming drama Viceroy’s House, pays tribute to the star who has died aged 66, and whose sensitive performances changed the way we think about race and representation
Gurinder Chadha
Film actor successful in Hollywood and Bollywood, best known in Britain for East Is East
Ryan Gilbey
Veteran of Bollywood, Hollywood and UK film industry dies in Mumbai, according to close friend
Michael Safi in Delhi
The Bollywood star, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, has been ridiculed on Twitter for recommending George Orwell’s brutal political satire to ‘little ones’ so they can ‘love and care for animals’
Catherine Shoard
He’s a Bollywood hero and the world’s biggest movie star, and in his new film he plays a rumpled sage. He talks about his desire to make people happy, why he’s got no friends, and what he tells his children about religion
Nosheen Iqbal
Eight-year-old Sunny Pawar plays a key role in film but has reportedly not been given a visa to attend Los Angeles and New York screenings of the movie
Alan Evans
Raghav Uday and Anil Verma, who did not know how to swim, jumped into reservoir as part of action sequence for Kannada film
Alan Evans
James Bond actor says he signed up to advertise breath freshener and was ‘shocked’ to learn campaign was for pan masala, a product linked to cancers
Michael Safi in Delhi
The Day Shall Dawn removed from schedule following threat to disrupt screenings amid tensions on the India-Pakistan border
Alan Evans
Elisa Paloschi’s inspiring documentary charts the rise of Selvi, a hugely likable taxi driver, and her tough route out of a forced marriage and towards independence
Leslie Felperin
Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association bans Pakistani actors, singers and technicians from working on Indian films as troops clash in disputed territory
Catherine Shoard
Monkey Master will weave Chinese and Indian warrior myths into modern-day martial arts story, and follows pioneering mashup Chakra: The Invincible
Andrew Pulver