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Australia to host Taylor Swift academic symposium

An Australian university says it will host an academic symposium on Taylor Swift, exploring her impact on gender, literature, the economy and the music industry. Scholars will gather at Melbourne University for “Swiftposium 2024” from February 11-13 to delve into a “broad range of academic disciplines” related to the 33-year-old pop icon. The university this week issued a call for ...

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Ekushey Padak-winning dancer Zeenat Barkatullah passes away

Ekushey Padak-winning dancer and actor Zeenat Barkatullah passed away on Wednesday. Bijori Barkatullah, daughter of Zeenat Barkatullah and renowned actor, confirmed the news. she said her mother, who had been suffering from several health complications, at around 4:45 pm at her Dhanmondi residence in the capital. Zeenat Barkatullah is survived by her two daughters. Earlier, Zeenat was admitted to a ...

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THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S “THE EMPRESS” TRANSFERS TO THE LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE from 4 Oct-28 Oct.

  THE LYRIC’S ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE, TANIKA GUPTA, RETURNS WITH THE EMPRESS, FOLLOWING HER ACCLAIMED ADAPTATION OF HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’S HOUSE AT THE LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE IN RACHEL O’RIORDAN’S DEBUT SEASON. DIRECTED BY POOJA GHAI, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF TAMASHA THEATRE COMPANY, THE EMPRESS OFFERS A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON BRITAIN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS IMPERIAL PAST. This autumn the Royal Shakespeare Company ...

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Critically acclaimed production of The Father and the Assassin opens at the National Theatre

Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi. The Father and the Assassin traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for independence: from a devout follower of Gandhi, through to his radicalisation and their tragic final encounter in Delhi in1948. Written by Anupama Chandrasekhar, one of India’s ...

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India’s Tarsem Singh brings dark love story to Toronto film fest

Indian director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, known for his award-winning music videos and visually arresting fantasy features, unveiled his first movie in eight years at the Toronto film festival — a shocking true-crime story about love, class and murder in 1990s Punjab. “Dear Jassi” is Singh’s first-ever film set in his home country and, in an interview with AFP, he explained ...

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Filmmaker Sohanur Rahman Sohan passes away

Popular filmmaker of Dhallywood Sohanur Rahman Sohan has passed away at the age of 57 in a private hospital in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon, a day after his wife’s death. It was known that Sohan fell critically ill after his wife’s death, and was taken to Crescent hospital at about 6:40pm, where he was declared dead. He is said to ...

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Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Unstoppable’ film set to break 300 crore record

Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan passed the Monday test, sorry, smashed the Monday test with earnings of over ₹ 30 crore on Day 5, reports trade analyst Taran Adarsh. This brings the box office total so far to ₹ 282.58 crore for the Hindi version of the film with the Tamil and Telugu versions contributing another couple of crores. Monday’s earnings ...

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Taylor Swift announces film of massive ‘Eras’ tour

Didn’t score tickets for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour? Never fear — the culturally defining juggernaut will hit movie theaters with a concert film released on October 13. “The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon,” Swift said on ...

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Hollywood strike saps glamour from 80th Venice Film Festival

A historic Hollywood strike robbed the Venice Film Festival of some of its usual glitz as it launched its 80th edition on Wednesday, but a raft of big-name — and controversial — directors are keeping the film world buzzing. The world’s longest-running film fest was due to start with “Challengers”, a tennis romance with one of the biggest stars of ...

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