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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to show solidarity with people who continue to welcome the displaced, despite grappling with their own insecurity, and said the world isn’t doing enough to help. The humanitarian crisis in the Sahel seems to me to be totally neglected. It is treated as being of little geopolitical importance,” Jolie told the Associated Press. There’s a bias in the way we think about which countries and which people matter. While Burkina Faso has been battling a five-year Islamic insurgency linked to al-Qaida…

A sprinkle of “nostalgia” and pop-culture references have become signature to director Vasan Bala’s films, who says revisiting his favourite movie memories drives him emotionally as a storyteller. The Mumbai-based filmmaker’s first theatrical release, 2019’s “Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota”, was a homage to martial arts legend Bruce Lee loaded with Bollywood references starting from its title, based on megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s dialogue in 1985 movie “Mard”. The story about a man, whose medical condition makes him impervious to pain, was a hit with people appreciating Bala’s pulpy treatment that…