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Naseeruddin Shah delves into Marathi film
MUMBAI: Naseeruddin Shah has ventured into Marathi films. He is signed by director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni for the film Deool.
Costing Rs 40 million, the film has 35 actors while Shah plays a God-like figure. “He had seen a short film, Girni, that I had made, and after reading Deool‘s script, he immediately agreed to do the film,” said Kulkarni. The film that also stars Nana Patekar will release in September.
Deool revolves around a bunch of people from a rural area, whose lives change due to development in the cities. “Villages are becoming semi-towns. Educated young people don‘t want to farm, but can‘t get dignified jobs. Basic technology and education have seeped into the interiors, so the locals know what‘s out there but don‘t have access to it,” Kulkarni observes.
Both Patekar and Shah‘s performances have earned great acclaim over the years, but this is the first time the actors will share screen space in a film with Marathi dialect. Recalling how this transpired, Kulkarni revealed, “Both of them came to felicitate the crew of my film Valu when it had completed 100 days. And someone from the audience came on the dais and expressed his desire to see both of them together.”
Patekar plays the role of a sarpanch (head of the Panchayat), Bhau Galande. The film also stars Dilip Prabhawalkar, who played Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho Munna Bhai and Mohan Agashe.
Hindi
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.
