To discuss the challenges of working around Indian cinema before it became Bollywood, Manch UK’s virtual event presented a panel which was curated and chaired by Rosie Thomas, Professor of Film at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts...
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6th Dec 2024 | Updated at 10:18am 6th Dec 2024
Film about family and overcoming generational trauma
Chloe Abrahams is a Sri Lankan-British artist and filmmaker whose debut non-fiction film, “The Taste of Mango”, premiered at True/False 2023, where it was ranked the #1 film by Sight & Sound. The film received critical acclaim, winning the Audience...
The magical Darbar Festival returns to London
Darbar Festival, one of world's largest festival of Indian classical music, outside India, returned to the Barbican centre in London from 24-27 October, with a magical mix of emerging and young talent with master performers making their UK debuts.
On 17 September 2020, Lalgudi G Jayaraman would have been 90 years old. To mark this occasion, Milap, in association with the Lalgudi Trust, has assembled an extraordinary ensemble of Indian virtuosos to record a unique version of one of his...
Having sold 5.5 million copies in print of his books until now, Amish is contemporary India’s best fiction writer. He has won numerous awards, and his Shiva Trilogy is the highest-selling book series in Indian publishing history, while his Ram...
Celebrating the extraordinary artists who have paved the way for South Asian Cinema in the UK, Suman Buchar and Lalit Mohan Joshi were in conversation for Manch UK’s online series ‘Cinemawallahs’ where they discussed Joshi’s foray into his work...
When writer-filmmaker Tanuja Chandra was making her first film, she approached veteran lyricist Anand Bakshi to narrate the script in order to pen a few...
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Suraj Shah runs the Twitter and Instagram handles under the name - @BAMEBAMEBAMEE. Shah has been helping the arts community by launching this initiative where he’s collating a database of actors looking for agents as he and his team get a lot...
In the year 2017, Talat Aziz, an immensely revered and popular Ghazal singer told a leading Indian daily that ‘Ghazal may die soon’. He told Hindustan Times, “This may be disheartening for fresh singers.. there aren't too many platforms for...
The pragmatic consequences of Covid-19 have not left any sector untouched. Asian Voice has been trying to bring you stories from artists and organisations in the art sector for a few weeks now. In this edition, we spoke to Helena Bell, Artistic...
