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National Film Awards ceremony to be simulcast on TV, radio, web
NEW DELHI: The 59th National Film Awards ceremony and presentation of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award to thespian Soumitra Chatterjee will have a live simulcast on television, radio, and the internet this time.
The awards will be presented by Vice President Hamid Ansari at the award ceremony, which will be held at Vigyan Bhavan. It will be telecast live on the national network at DD One, the international channel DD India, and on DD News from 5 pm. There will be a repeat telecast on 4 May on DD Bharati from 8 pm.
In addition, the ceremony will be broadcast from 5.25 pm onwards on All India Radio‘s Rajdhani channel in Delhi; FM Rainbow in Delhi, Hyderabad and Jalandhar; Radio Kashmir; AIR stations in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Kolkata; and FM Gold in Kolkata.
Live webcast will be shown on www.dff.nic.in with a link from mib.nic.in.
The National Film Awards are traditionally given away by the President and this is one of the few times since the awards were introduced that they are being given away by the Vice President as President Pratibha Devisingh Patil is on a trip to Seychelles and South Africa.
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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.
