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Actor best known for his part in Potter's The Singing Detective

The actor Badi Uzzaman, who has died from a lung infection aged 72, was perhaps best known for playing the patient in the hospital bed next to Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective (1985). The pair's camaraderie provided some of the lighter moments in Dennis Potter's TV series and showed off Uzzaman's talent for comedic roles. In their scenes together, Gambon (as Philip Marlow) and Uzzaman (as Ali) were shown to share an outsider status, Marlow due to his disfiguring skin condition and Ali due to his race.

Uzzaman again explored British attitudes toward race in Brothers in Trouble (1995), a film directed by Udayan Prasad and based on Abdullah Hussein's novel about the experiences of Pakistani illegal immigrants in Britain in the 1960s. Uzzaman himself was no stranger to the immigrant experience. He was born in Phulpur, in Azamgarh,...

Starting her career with crossover films like "East Is East" and "Bend It Like Beckham," Indian-born British actress Archie Panjabi (Archana Kaur Panjabi) today reached another height of her acting career by winning an Emmy Award for best supporting actress.

Panjabi won this award for her role of 'Kalinda Sharma,' a bi-sexual private detective in the drama series "The Good Wife."

She faced tough competition from actors like Rose Byrne, Sharon Gless, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss and her own co-star from "The Good Wife,"Christine Baranski.

Having debuted her film career in 1999, the actor also played critical roles in "The Constant Gardener," "A Mighty Heart" and "Yasmin," with the last one written by Oscar-winner Simon Beaufoy of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame.

Berlin -- Bernd Hellthaler has resigned from EuroArts Medien, the Berlin company he founded in 1994 and built into one of the world’s leading producers of classic music and fine arts programming.

Some of the company’s best known work was done as co-productions, including the Grammy-nominated documentary “Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)”.

EuroArts also co-produced several feature films, including Kenneth Glenaan’s “Yasmin” (2004), “Don’t Come Knocking” (2005) from Wim Wenders and Lajos Koltai’s “Fateless” (2005).

Hellthaler cited unspecified “personal reasons” for his exit. He will continue to advise the company and its corporate parent Medici Arts, which acquired EuroArts in 2004.

We have the first poster for the Fox Searchlight Pictures acclaimed indie film "Slumdog Millionaire" starring Danny Boyle directs from the writing by Simon Beaufoy ("Blow Dry," "Yasmin," "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day"). Boyle has a fantastic resume including the unique comedy drama "Trainspotting" starring Ewan McGregor, cult horror favorite "28 Days Later," family film "Millions" and the more recent sci-fi actioner/thriller "Sunshine" starring Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans.

We have the first poster for the Fox Searchlight Pictures acclaimed indie film "Slumdog Millionaire" starring Danny Boyle directs from the writing by Simon Beaufoy ("Blow Dry," "Yasmin," "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day"). Boyle has a fantastic resume including the unique comedy drama "Trainspotting" starring Ewan McGregor, cult horror favorite "28 Days Later," family film "Millions" and the more recent sci-fi actioner/thriller "Sunshine" starring Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans.

We have the first poster for the Fox Searchlight Pictures acclaimed indie film "Slumdog Millionaire" starring Danny Boyle directs from the writing by Simon Beaufoy ("Blow Dry," "Yasmin," "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day"). Boyle has a fantastic resume including the unique comedy drama "Trainspotting" starring Ewan McGregor, cult horror favorite "28 Days Later," family film "Millions" and the more recent sci-fi actioner/thriller "Sunshine" starring Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans. What's this all about? Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much?...

We have the first poster for the Fox Searchlight Pictures acclaimed indie film "Slumdog Millionaire" starring Danny Boyle directs from the writing by Simon Beaufoy ("Blow Dry," "Yasmin," "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day"). Boyle has a fantastic resume including the unique comedy drama "Trainspotting" starring Ewan McGregor, cult horror favorite "28 Days Later," family film "Millions" and the more recent sci-fi actioner/thriller "Sunshine" starring Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans.

PARIS -- Dead Man's Shoes, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Paddy Considine, won the Hitchcock d'Or, the top award at the Dinard Festival of British Film, which came to a close Sunday. The film, about two brothers who stir up their troubled past when they return to the home town they left years ago, explores the dark world of drug-dealing gangs. "I decided to make the film after a close friend of mine committed suicide because of drugs, and it is important to expose what goes on in that world," Meadows said as he accepted the award at a ceremony Saturday evening. The Hitchcock d'Argent prize, awarded on the basis of audience votes, went to Yasmin, directed by Glasgow-based Kenny Glenaan, and starring Archie Panjabi, both of whom were in Dinard to accept the honor.