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Dev Patel says he thought David Copperfield was a magician
At the premiere of The Personal History of David Copperfield at Toronto International Film Festival, film director Armando Iannucci says Dev Patel was the first choice for the role TORONTO: A non-white actor playing the role of David Copperfield in Charles Dickens’ famous literary work of the 19th century Victorian England? Yes, that is what Slumdog Millionaire…
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Dev Patel: I felt compelled to be part of Hotel Mumbai
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel, who plays the role of Sikh waiter Arjun in Anthony Maras’ film Hotel Mumbai about the November 2008 terror attacks, says he felled compelled to be part of the film after his family watched the city burning on TV screens. Underpinning his old link with the…
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Hotel Mumbai premiere at TIFF gets standing ovation for chef Hemant Oberoi
TORONTO: Hotel Mumbai, the feature film by Australian director Anthony Maras about the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, premiered to a huge response at the Toronto International Film Festival here, with Taj Mahal Palace chef Hemant Oberoi joining the audience. After introducing the cast, including Dev Patel and Anupam Kher (in the role Hemant Oberoi) before…
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Meet Dev Patel’s wife in the film The Man Who Knew Infinity
By Subhash K Jha MUMBAI: Devika Bhise, who has bagged the coveted role of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan’s wife Gayatri in the film The Man Who Knew Infinity, has been born and brought up in Manhattan. But the Indian side of this actress whom we saw play a small but interesting part in Griffin Dunne’s…