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Making her film debut India 2017, 1hr 35mins + Q&A the previously unknown story of Sri Lanka 2017, 1hr 53 mins Tue 20 Mar, 6.30pm in 2011 in Bol – one of Pakistan’s Hindi with English subtitles how Indian Jews played a formative Sinhala with English subtitles ROYAL SHAKESPEARE Tue 3 Apr, 6.30pm highest grossing films of all time – role in shaping the world’s largest Screen Room, tickets £6 COMPANY Mahira has gone on to find success Rajiv (Sanjay Suri) is celebrating film industry. Infused with music I, CLAUDE MONET in TV and Bollywood, appearing last his 40th birthday with friends. and dance, this is an engrossing A spectacular action-epic, widely TWELFTH NIGHT Tue 22 May, 6.30pm year opposite superstar Shah Rukh Everything appears normal, apart celebration of interfaith coexistence.