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London Indian Film Fest to open on 30 June
MUMBAI: After its successful debut last year, the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) is all set to return for a second year.
To be held from 30 June to 12 July, the festival will screen a range of alternative Indian cinema as well as regular Bollywood films. The festival will screen films of directors including Anurag Kashyap, Abhinay Deo and Rituparno Ghosh.
Aamir Khan’s Delhi Belly will open the festival.
Says festival director Cary Rajinder Sawhney, “In addition to showing great movies, we also aim to help get these films talked about and screened more broadly in cinemas in the UK, in the same way that Iranian cinema has been shown. London of course has a huge Asian audience for these movies, but many non-Asian Brits would also like to find out more about the 1.2 billion-strong India of today and cinema is a great way to do this.”
After doing the rounds of festivals in Venice and Toronto, Anurag Kashyap‘s That Girl in Yellow Boots will also be screened at the festival.
Rituparno Ghosh’s film Autograph will close the festival on 12 July.
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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.
