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Planman acquires filming rights of Mukul Deva’s Lashkar
MUMBAI: Fresh from the accolades and awards it received for Do Dooni Chaar, Arindam Chaudhuri’s Planman Motion Pictures has acquired the filming rights of Mukul Deva‘s path breaking military action thriller, Lashkar.
“I started reading Lashkar at around midnight and was simply unable to put it down. Halfway through, I knew I just had to make it into a movie. A couple of hours after finishing it, I was in touch with Deva,‘ said Planman Motion Pictures VEO Shubho Shekhar Bhattacharjee.
“Lashkar is not only an extremely topical book, it also has that gritty flavour and taut, killing pace, which make for a great film. We are very excited about this. Work on the script is well underway and we hope to take the movie to the floors very soon,” he observed.
Lashkar is the first of Deva‘s four book action thriller series published by HarperCollins India. Like the other three books (Salim Must Die (2009), Blowback Lowback (2010) and Tanzeem (2011)), Lashkar has also struck a popular and very emotive chord with Indian readers and all four hit the bestseller lists within weeks of their release.
Termed as ‘India‘s answer to Tom Clancy‘ and ‘the man with the Nostradamus touch‘, Deva, an ex-Indian Army officer, has seen a decade of combat. He has been a consistent on the bestseller‘s lists over the last four years.
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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.
