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Anurag Kashyap-backed Gadi set for Dharamshala premiere
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News photography: Archive photograph of Gadi producer Anurag Kashyap at the International Film Festival of Kerala on March 18, 2022. Photo: Sanu N / CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized/display crop; original image license applies. · Archive photograph of co-director David France at a Millennium Docs Against Gravity discussion in Warsaw on May 14, 2023. Photo: Tomasz Molina / CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized/display crop; original image license applies. · Archive photograph of Jessica Chastain at the Cannes Film Festival on May 11, 2016. Photo: Georges Biard / CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized/display crop; original image license applies. · Nana Patekar in 2017. Photo: joegoaukiffi3, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Adapted to landscape with AI-assisted background expansion; adaptation shared under the same licence. · Paramount’s Melrose Gate, January 2026. Archive photograph; not a photograph of the merger. Photo: Laura Alier / CC BY 4.0. Display crop; resized. Image remains available under its original license. · BFI Southbank, August 2025. Archive venue photograph. Photo: Ewan Munro / CC BY-SA 4.0. Display crop; resized. Image remains available under its original license.
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