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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan (aka India’s answer to Tom Hanks) is heading to the BFI Southbank this July for the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF). Returning for its 17th year to take over six UK cities for ten days, the festival is bringing an absolute mammoth of a line-up. The biggest coup? Snagging the notoriously private Khan for a rare live Q&A. His appearance sits alongside a 25th-anniversary IMAX screening of Lagaan, the Oscar-nominated cricket epic that catapulted him to fame.
The rest of the bill is just as stellar. The cast of BBC’s Goodness Gracious Me are staging a live reunion, while film heads can catch new Bangladeshi arthouse cinema from ruthless action movies like Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Master, to comedies including Shlok Sharma’s unpredictable All About Weddings. There is also a pristine digital restoration of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, a 1989 indie masterpiece written by Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Royt. Add in Too Desi Too Queer, the festival’s showcase of South Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, and screenings at some of London’s best-loved cinemas – including the Barbican, the ICA, Rich Mix and the Bertha DocHouse – and you’ve got an unmissable week and a half of film.