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Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival Announces Full Line-up

Back for it's 10th edition, the Bagri Foundation has announced its full line-up as well as the list of guests that will be attending the Festival this year.

Their most diverse showcase yet, with 10 languages and 7 talented women Directors' films being premiered, the Festival will play host to multi-award winning director Anurag Kashyap and one of India's most talented actress, Radhika Apte.

This year's highlights include a red carpet opening night at Picturehouse Central with the exciting World Premiere of cop whodunnit “Article 15” starring Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana directed by Anubhav Sinha. Our closing night marks the return of Ritesh Batra, the Director of “The Lunchbox”, with the premiere of “Photograph” starring the legendary Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

Ayushmann Khurrana in “Article 15”

In addition to the Screen Talks with Anurag Kashyap and Radhika Apte, there will also be a Chai with Chadha event, where prolific director Gurinder Chadha will join the audience for an in-depth conversation. There will also be two Guru Lounge sessions, where attendees will get to have a Q&A session, with the Chai and Chat session hosting funders, distributors and producers while the Meet the Filmmakers will have new and established filmmakers.

For the Too Desi Too Queer event, the Festival joins hands with Thrive LDN, Brixton Reel Film Festival, Queer Asia, University of Westminster and others to present a special FREE event exploring well being in London's South Asian LGBTQ+ communities. It includes a dynamic range of recent LGBTQ+ shorts from South Asia and the UK, followed by a panel debate exploring community empowerment and looking after individual wellbeing, with high profile speakers. A networking social with DJ ends the evening at University of Westminster, Portland Place Campus.

The Festival will run from 20th-29th June in London, 21st June-1st July in Birmingham and 26th-29th June in Manchester.

Check out the full lineup of films below:

#Gadhvi – Gaurav Bakshi, Hindi

Abyakto (Unsaid) – Arjunn Dutta, Bengali

Ardaas Karaan – Gippy Grewal, Punjabi

Arishadvarga – Arvind Kamath, Kannada

Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha, Hindi

Bulbul Can Sing – Rima Das, Assamese, Hindi

Chuskit – Priya Ramasubban, Ladakhi

Iti, Tomari Dhaka (Sincerely Yours) – Various, Bengali

Jalsaghar (The Music Room) – Satyajit Ray, Bengali

Kattumaram (Catamaran) – Swarnavel Eswaran, Tamil

Khandhar (Ruins) – Mrinal Sen, Hindi

Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain) – Vasan Bala

My Home India Anjali Bhushan, Indian, Polish

Photograph – Ritesh Batra, Hindi, Gujarati, English

Roobha Lenin M. Sivam, Tamil, English

Saturday Afternoon – Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bengali, English

Shonajhurir Bhoot (Ghost of the Golden Groves) – Aniket Dutta & Roshni Sen, Bengali

Sir – Rohena Gera, Hindi, English, Marathi

The Lift Boy – Jonathan Augustin, English, Hindi

The River – Jean Renoir, English, Bengali

This Shaking Keeps Me Steady – Shehrezad Maher, Urdu

Urojahaj (The Flight) – Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Bengali

Vinci Da – Srijit Mukherji, Bengali

Vivek (Reason) – Anand Patwardhan, Hindi, Marathi

Widow of Silence – Praveen Morchhale, Urdu

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Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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