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Pakistan Lifts Ban on Indian Films

Bollywood movies, the subcontinent’s most visible cultural export, are to be allowed to be screened in Pakistan, which has decided to lift the decades-old ban on Indian films as part of the peace process between the two neighbors.
Pakistan has outlawed public screenings of Indian films since a 1965 war, but has now removed from censorship [...]

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Veteran Actor, 10, Writes and Directs His Own Film

A 10-year-old Indian boy is close to becoming one of the world’s youngest directors with his first film being prepared for an April release.
Writer, actor, director and still not yet a teenager, Kishan Shrikanth spent yesterday on his film set putting the final touches to a song and dance sequence in his first movie. “It [...]

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Bollywood Film Breaks Sex and Marriage Taboo

It is a first of sorts for Bollywood: a film about wife swapping that involves no large-scale shimmering song and dance sequences. Mixed Doubles is, in short, a serious movie about a taboo subject from India’s film capital that has for decades relied on making people laugh or cry rather than think.
Made on a budget [...]

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Reversal of Roles As Hollywood Remakes Bollywood Hit

After decades of borrowing from western movie scripts, Bollywood is poised to have one of its biggest films remade in Hollywood. Munnabhai MBBS, starring Sanjay Dutt, a hit about a gangster who pretends to be a doctor whenever his parents turn up, is to be shot as Gangster MD starring Chris Tucker, who is best [...]

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