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Radhika Apte Screen Talk at the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival 2019 on Sunday 23rd June, 2019 at Cineworld Leicester Square, London England

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At a very special event on June 23rd at this year’s London Indian Film Festival Radhika Apte gave a special talk with Girl With Pearl Earring director Peter Webber about her stunningly varied career. The brilliant actress has been seen in hit films like Padman, Andhadhun and Kabali garnering rave reviews. She is also known for her independent films like Parched, Phobia and Bombairiya where she really shone in her amazing performances. Apte has also appeared in English films like The Wedding Guest and The Ashram. She won a Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her bravura performance in Madly. Not only that she has done several Netflix series headlining the original Ghoul, Lust Stories and Sacred Games with great acclaim.

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#BeAnIdiot is the final shot on the trailer for the new Radhika Apte movie Bombairiya. This is a black comedy which involves an accident, a stolen phone, a video and just a lot of mess that will be untangled over the time of this movie. While the rest of the cast may not all be star names, this film certainly seems to say ‘interesting’ in the tag line. Arko Mukherjee is its music director and he delivers a short 4 song album which can only enhance a seemingly endless number of plot twists and turns.

Arko takes the mic for the first song Sanki. An opening of slow club synth beats with Punjabi lyrics, this is a song to introduce a girl who knows herself and certainly isn’t about to conform to someone else’s stereotypes. A changeup half way to rap which is a mix of English and Hindi...

Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has joined the cast of The Confession Of Sultana Daku, produced by London-based Beautiful Bay Entertainment.

Adapted from Sujit Saraf’s best-selling novel, the film tells the true story of the 1920’s bandit who thumbed his nose at the British Raj in a crime spree across central India with a task force of a thousand police on his tail.

The film will be directed by Heeraz Marfatia (Birju) from a script by Shubra Swarup. “Nawaz has lived and dreamed the stories of Sultana Daku since he was a child. In a way, he has been preparing to play this character his entire life without even knowing it,” said Marfatia

Beautiful Bay, founded by Colin Burrows and Michael Ward, specialises in Indian-focussed stories and currently has Pia Sukanya’s Bombairiya in post-production.

Exclusive: Caper comedy by Pia Sukanya is scheduled for release in first half of 2016.

Bombairiya, starring Radhika Apte, Akshay Oberoi and Siddhanth Kapoor, is set to start its third and final schedule of the shoot in mid-December after it was interrupted by an industry strike and a non-film-related injury that Kapoor suffered at home last month.

Set in modern-day Mumbai, the film is shooting on location, with 70% outdoor locations. The final leg will start on December 11 for 12 days, bringing the total shoot to 46 days. The domestic release is scheduled for the first half of 2016.

The Hindi and English-language caper comedy is the latest Bollywood film featuring a female director and female lead. Produced by UK and Mumbai-based Beautiful Bay Entertainment, it is the first feature film of director Pia Sukanya.

“Hero kaun hai? (Who’s the hero?) was the standard Bollywood question asked when a new film was being discussed,” says Beautiful...

While he’s just 2 films old, Akshay Oberoi has made his presence felt within the Industry as well as among his fans. With an impressive line-up ahead which includes Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor, Indo-Brit film Bombairiya, Gurgaon directed by national award winning cinematographer Shanker Raman, Ye Laal Rang with Randeep Hooda and a big announcement on its way, Akshay has managed to pave his way in the hearts of his fans not only in India but also across the oceans.

Recently, he met a female fan who flew all the way down from Morocco to meet him. This girl started following Akshay and his work on his twitter and expressed her wish to meet him. After her consistent messages, Akshay obliged her request once he wrapped up his schedule for Yeh Laal Rang in Karnal. They met up at a coffee shop in Bandra. The fan also showed him few...