The capital is home to so many different film festivals it’s hard to keep track of them but we’re proud to be able to give you details of the best film festival among them; the one that you simply MUST ATTEND, especially because Asiana magazine and Asiana.TV are the official media partners (and if that doesn’t convince you enough, how about the chance to be at the premiere of Aamir Khan’s new film? We thought that would get your attention!)

‘Bigger, bolder and beyond Bollywood’ is the promise made by the organisers of the second annual London Indian Film Festival – an incredible global platform and celebration of independent Indian cinema taking place this summer. Running from 30th June -12th July 2011, the festival brings UK audiences a selection of cutting edge talents with modern Indian films that challenge, shock and spark generate debate.

Following the Opening Night World Premiere screening of Delhi Belly, produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures, starring his nephew Imran Khan, the festival will go on to showcase the work of India’s new wave of independent filmmakers, including Anurag Kashyap and Rituparno Ghosh. The festival will stretch city wide, opening in the West End at the Cineworld Haymarket andcontinuing at the V&A, BFI Southbank, Nehru Centre, Watermans, Cineworld Trocadero, Feltham, Wood Green, Ilfordand The University of Westminster.

Listen out too for some fantastic music to accompany the event. Following three performances at the Glastonbury Festival and a stellar appearance on Later… with Jools Holland, singer and film composer Raghu Dixitwill perform on the closing night.

If you’re wondering if there’s anything that will appeal to you – fear not! There’s enough choice to appeal to you and your friends so expect multiple trips to see a wide range of films touching on family dramas, coming-of age tales and even an urban teen-romance. Uniting these films is a new more assured Indian cool, experimenting with cinematic styles, sexual liberality, new technology and influenced by themes both East and West, which has helped new Indian cinema win favour with the young in-crowd in super cities like Mumbai, as well as with connoisseurs of world cinema across the globe.

Highlights include a special screening of Colours of Passion at the V&A, a homage to the revolutionary painter Raja Ravi Varma whose paintings in the 1890s influenced modern Indian art and cinema. Winner of an Indian National Award The Way Home thatsensitively explores fears of terrorism and nationhood in the modern state of India and That Girl in Yellow Boots which tells of a young girl of UK/Indian mixed parentage who goes in search of her Indian father in Mumbai but discovers a terrible secret in the squalid underbelly of the city of dreams.

Cary Rajinder Sawhney, Festival Director comments: ‘In addition to showing great movies, we also aim to help get these films talked about and screened more broadly in cinemas in the UK. London of course has a huge Asian audience for these movies, but many non-Asian Brits would also like to find out more about the 1.2 billion strong India of today, and cinema is a great way to do this’.

For more information and booking details please visit: www.londonindianfilmfestival.co.ukTickets are currently on sale at the BFI and V&A and sales will commence at other venues on June 15.

Asiana Magazine and Asiana.TV are the official media partners of the London Indian Film Festival.