EXCLUSIVE: Before Shah Rukh Khan's King, Arshad Warsi works with son Aryan Khan; to feature in a crucial role in The Ba***ds Of Bollywood

Earlier this year, there was a lot of excitement generated over Arshad Warsi signing King, one of the most awaited films of Bollywood. It features Shah Rukh Khan in a leading role along with several other prominent actors. It also marks the first time Arshad is working in a film fronted by SRK. Bollywood Hungama has learned that recently, Arshad Warsi worked with Shah Rukh’s son Aryan as well. A source told Bollywood Hungama, “Arshad Warsi is a part of The Ba***ds Of Bollywood, the maiden web series of Aryan Khan. His role has been well-guarded until now. And it's not a cameo or a blink and miss appearance. He has a crucial part in the web show.” The source continued, “The Ba***ds Of Bollywood is keenly awaited not just because of the Aryan Khan connection or its well-received promo but also because it has a lot of surprises and special appearances. A few of them are out, but there are many more actors whose glimpse hasn’t been given or even talked about. Arshad is one of them. T...

Who was Muriel Box, Britain’s most prolific female film director?

She was also the first woman to win an Oscar for best original screenplay. Now a new radio documentary aims to give her pioneering work a fresh appraisal

In 1991, as a film student, I was offered £50 by a German women’s collective to shoot Muriel Box. But when the documentary director and I arrived at her home we were told that she was too ill to see us. She died a few months later aged 85. While I regret never meeting her, I’m also relieved. How terrible to have shown even a glimpse of my full ignorance of her achievements, a pioneering film-maker who had fought her way through an industry hostile to women to make a major contribution to cinema.

Box directed 13 feature films in the 1950s and early 60s and remains Britain’s most prolific female director. Her titles, made for a mainstream audience, include The Passionate Stranger, an imaginative retort to the romance novel, which boldly experiments with form; the controversial juvenile courtroom drama Too Young to Love; and Box’s favourite, The Truth About Women, an eclectic tapestry of the complex lives of women.

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