UK and India announced a new era of cooperation between their respective screen industries on Wednesday, as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer touched down in Mumbai for a trade visit.

Starmer is leading a delegation of more than 100 entrepreneurs, university vice-chancellors and cultural leaders, including director Gurinder Chadha and British Film Institute (BFI) governors Monica Chadha and Andrew Smith, who is also Corporate Affairs Director at Pinewood Studios.

Measures announced on the trip, aimed at boosting business ties in the wake of the signing of the UK/India Free Trade Agreement signed in July 2025, included a MOU between the BFI and its Indian counterpart, the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).

In a sign of the new era of film cooperation, Starmer announced that t

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