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Malayalam film wins 3 awards at Imagine India fest
MUMBAI: Malayalam film Veettilekkulla Vazhi, which was featured in the competition section of the 10th Imagine India International film festival, has won three awards – best film, best director and best music director.
The festival, held in Madrid, Spain, concluded recently.
The film revolves around the life of a doctor who is witness to his wife and five-year-old son being killed in a terrorist explosion at a Delhi market. He takes a job at a prison hospital, where he treats a woman, a suicide bomber in a critical condition after an attack by the Indian Jihadi terrorist group.
Before dying, the woman asks him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father. Soon the doctor and the boy set out on a mysterious journey only to discover that the father is head of the very same terrorist group that killed his mother.
The film has also been selected for Zanzibar International Film Festival, London Indian Film Festival, and Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival Germany in the competition sections of the respective festivals.
A homeopathic medical graduate, director Biju made his debut as writer and director with Saira (2005), that opened the ‘Tous Les Cinemas Du Monde’ of the 2007 edition of the Cannes film festival.
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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.
