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The 14th annual Bollywood festival of Indian film gets underway at Prague's Světozor cinema on Thursday night. Over the next four days, the event will offer a selection of classical as well as contemporary movies mainly from India. Among the films screened at the festival this year will be Sultan, the fourth-highest grossing Indian film of all time, with Indian superstar Salmar Khan in the lead role or the spectacular historical drama Bajirao Mastani, loosely based on real events in the first half of the 18th century.

The 13th annual Bollywood festival of Indian film got underway in Prague on Wednesday night. Over the next five days, the event will offer a selection of classical as well as contemporary movies mainly from India. Among the films screened at the festival this year will be Bang Bang, a Bollywood remake of a Hollywood action comedy Knight and Day, which was partly shot in the Czech Republic. For the first time this year, the festival will also expand to Pilsen and Brno.

This Wednesday, the annual Bollywood festival of Indian film gets underway in Prague. Now in its 12th year, the festival offers a selection of classical as well as contemporary movies from India and Pakistan, along with a rich accompanying programme. The subtitle of this year’s event is “Children of Bollywood.” I spoke to Radim Špaček, one of the festival’s organizers, and first asked him about the choice of the main theme:

In Business News this week: the Central Bank says it may cut interest rates further, the Czech Republic’s fourth biggest beer producer Budějovický Budvar is bringing out an 11 percent brew and hobby markets in the Czech Republic are doing good business despite the crisis.

Rob Cameron’s guest on One on One this week is Kabir Bedi, one of India’s best known actors and one of the few to make that difficult transition from Bollywood to Europe to Hollywood. Kabir already had dozens of films under his belt before he won the lead role in the 1970s TV series Sandokan, a role that won him a legion of fans throughout Europe and especially in communist Czechoslovakia. Kabir Bedi was in Prague recently as a special guest of the Bollywood film festival, and Radio Prague asked the actor what explained the huge success of

The Prague Bollywood Festival, now in its fourth year, all came about back in 2003, when three friends - students at Prague's Film Academy FAMU - organised a few showings of Indian films for their fellow students. The following year they decided to organise a real film festival, at Zizkov's arthouse Aero Cinema. That was such a resounding success, so they did it again the next year.

A rather unusual exhibition opened in Prague's Adria Palace on Friday - a collection of film posters representing decades of Bengali cinema. Unlike the commercial song and dance extravaganzas of Bollywood, Bengali cinema is known for its bold experimentation, and the Bengali film industry is one of the oldest in India. Its most famous proponent is the director Satyajit Ray, whose 1955 classic The Song of the Road was the first Indian film to enter the international arena of art cinema. At the official launch Radio Prague spoke to the exhibition's

The Prague Bollywood film festival draws to a close on Sunday, after bringing the sights and sounds of Indian cinema to the Czech capital for the third year running. The theme of this year's festival is Old Traditions - New Directions, and spans several decades of Indian film.

This evening sees the grand opening of the third annual Prague Bollywood Festival - a celebration of Indian film that brings the colourful sights and sounds of the Indian subcontinent to the Czech Republic. This year the festival begins at the arthouse Aero cinema in Zizkov before moving on to the Kino Svetozor off Wenceslas Square. So is Bollywood slowly winning the hearts and minds of the Czech people? Rob Cameron spoke to organiser Sangita Shresthova to find out.

Few people can boast of having Czech-Nepalese heritage, fluency in four languages and an in-depth knowledge of traditional Indian dance. Few people except maybe Rob Cameron's guest in One on One - Sangita Shresthova. Sangita's childhood was divided between Prague and Kathmandu, but now she lives in Prague, where she studies film, teaches and performs dance. Recently she helped to organise a festival of Bollywood film.