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Two Children of the Red Mosque to receive Tribeca docu funding
MUMBAI: Hemal Trivedi’s Two Children of the Red Mosque is among the five projects that will collectively receive $100,000 funding from the 2012 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.
The documentary will be co-directed by Mohammad Naqvi and produced by Whitney Dow and Jonathan Goodman Levitt.
The film is all about 12-year-olds Zarina and Talha, who after attending Pakistan’s most notorious madrassa, pursue different dreams. While Zarina attends school trying to avoid marriage; Talha remains a madrassa student preparing for Jihad. Their stories personalise Pakistanis’ ideological war.
The other projects that will receive the Tribeca Documentary fund are: E-Team (Directors Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman), God Loves Uganda (Director Roger Ross Williams), First to Fall (Director Rachel Anderson) and Mercy Mercy (Director Katrine W Kjaer).
In its fifth year currently, the fund provides finishing finances, year-round support and guidance to domestic and international documentary filmmakers with feature-length films highlighting and humanizing issues of social importance from around the world.
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund is instituted by The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and Gucci.
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Rashmika Mandanna, Shanaya Kapoor and Naila Grrewal climb IMDb’s Indian celebrity rankings
Upcoming films and returning shows are driving fan interest across Bollywood and streaming
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s popularity contest has a new weekly scorecard, and the numbers are telling. IMDb’s Popular Indian Celebrities list for this week places Shanaya Kapoor at number six, buoyed by buzz around her film Tu Yaa Main. Naila Grrewal slots in at seven on the back of the returning comedy series Maamla Legal Hai, while Rashmika Mandanna climbs to eighth, riding mounting anticipation for Cocktail 2.
The list, available exclusively on the IMDb app for Android and iOS, tracks trending Indian entertainers and filmmakers each week, drawing on data from more than 200m monthly visits to the platform worldwide.
Further down the rankings, Raaka is keeping two of its biggest names in the spotlight. Deepika Padukone holds 11th position, with Allu Arjun close behind at 13th, as the film continues to find traction with audiences.
The list offers fans a weekly pulse on who is breaking through, who is holding steady, and who is fading. It is a barometer as unsparing as the box office itself.
