High commissioner of India Navdeep Suri (3rd from left) with the director of NGA Gerard Vaughan and curator Vijay Kumar Mathur and National Museum Director-General and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Sanjiv Mittal If you are traveling to Canberra in the coming months TIDU highly recommends all to visit National Gallery of Australia to […]
Adil Hussain – Star attraction at this year’s Sydney Film Festival By Neeru Saluja Versatile actor Adil Hussain, known for his performances in ”˜Life of Pi’, ”˜English Vinglish’ and ”˜Reluctant Fundamentalist’ will be arriving in Australia as a guest for the Sydney Film festival. Two of his films – Sunrise and Tiger are being screened […]
Antonythasan Jesuthasan’s personal story ‘Dheepan’ won Palme D’Or Award at Cannes Film Festival By Manju Mittal It was the most surprising and a pleasant win. I had spent hours with the director and stars of the most humble, quiet film based on Tamil Tiger refugees titled ”˜Dheepan’. We sat together, talked, laughed, ate and […]
From Wednesday 3 June to Sunday 14 June, 2015, the 62nd Sydney Film Festival offers Sydneysiders another exciting season of cinema amidst a whirlwind of premieres, red-carpet openings, panel discussions, international guests and more. Each year the Festival programming team curates 12 days of cinema sourced from world-famous film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto […]
By Manju Mittal Rohini Hattandadi a respected Indian theatre film and television actress. She has portrayed Kasturba in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi and she has won several National Awards. Rohini Hattangadi is also known for her powerful performances in films like Arth, Party, Saaransh. She has appeared in over 80 films, and is active […]
Prashant Tupe with Rohini Hathangadi By Neena Badhwar Prashant Tupe, a businessman-cum- writer-cum-actor from Perth, is staging currently the play ”˜Samantar’ based on his own experience with aged seniors migrating and living in Australia with their children. Says Prashant, who got his parents to come and live with the family and help raise his […]
Lilly Singh, better known to her 5.4 million YouTube subscribers as “IISuperwomanII” will return to Australia in June 2015 for her first National comedy tour as she brings A Trip To Unicorn Island Tour down under. In a jam-packed night filled with laughter, music, dance, and plenty of surprises, Lilly will give you […]
Vijay Kumar Singh, Neena Sinha, Abbas Raza Alvi, Ritu Bhamra, Garima Trivedi (standing) Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Vimla Luthra, Subhash Sharma (Melbourne), Prabhat Sinha, Rajeev Kapoor and Rekha Rajvanshi (seated) The festival of Holi brings people together in celebration not only over colours, food and festivities, but also large doses of laughter. In many parts […]
Amjad Ali Kahn with Ayaan Ali Khan and Amaan Ali Khan By K Raman After a protracted wait, Amjadji will be at the Seymour theatre on April, 24, 2015, to perform, thanks to Sri. Krishnamoorthy, Head of Soorya Organisation and Sri. Sudhir Das, The Sydney chapter chief of Soorya enterprises. This time we will […]
Kersi Meher-Homji interviews singer Sadiq Rehmani It was a conflict of interest for me; to watch the India – Pakistan cricket World Cup match in Adelaide or listen to the Avijit Sarkar – Pushpa Jagadish concert in Sydney. I had the best of both worlds: old favourite songs in the afternoon and the World […]