Hari Ka Om starring Soni Razdan and Anshuman Jha to premiere in Europe at UK Asian Film Festival 2025

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After traveling across major film festivals in Australia, North America, Canada, and India, Hari Ka Om, the emotional father-son drama starring Anshuman Jha, Soni Razdan, and Raghubir Yadav, is now set for its European premiere. The film has been selected as the centrepiece gala screening at the UK Asian Film Festival 2025. The screening will take place on May 7 at London’s iconic Regent Street Cinema. Directed by Harish Vyas, known for Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain and Hum Bhi Akele Tum Bhi Akele, the film marks his third collaboration with Anshuman Jha. The cast also includes Ayesha Kapur, and the film explores the emotional complexities within Indian families, focusing on generational divides and the consequences of emotional miscommunication. Speaking about the film, Anshuman Jha shared, “HARI KA OM is the father-son film we need today, small town India set, deals with issues which occur in nearly every home. It dwells on the fact that without emotional regulation – mistakes can be mad...
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Ebrahim Golestan obituary

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Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

When a consortium of western oil companies took over the operation of the Iranian oil industry in 1954, Ebrahim Golestan, one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and writers, was recruited to work in public relations at the new company and put in charge of making educational films.

In 1957 he founded his own Golestan Studios and in 1959, after he had severed ties with the oil consortium, he negotiated the buyout of the equipment with which he had made their documentaries. With this equipment, his studio became the most sophisticated centre for film-making in Iran.

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