Hindi
Sengupta’s Sunrise draws $21,000 as crowd funding
MUMBAI: Partho Sengupta’s film Sunrise (Arunoday), which had undertaken crow
funding through indiegogo.com, ended with a total intake of $21, 000 on 29 May.
The film addresses the issue of child abuse in India and is expected to go into production soon. It is one of the 12 Indian projects that have been selected for the Open Doors programme of Locarno Film Festival. Open Doors is the co-production lab of the festival, which awards three cash prizes at the end of a workshop.
The movie has been offered help by three French companies who will assist with the subtitling, post production and lenses.
Sengupta is known for critically acclaimed films like Hava Aney Dey in Hindi and Trajet Discontinu in French.
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.
