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Gautam Ghosh mulls documentary on Mamata Banerjee
MUMBAI: Gautam Ghosh, who has made documentaries on Saytajit Ray, Jyoti Basu, Utpal Dutt and shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan among others, is mulling with the idea of making one on the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
So impressed is Ghosh by the political leader that he thinks there is no other way by which he can pay a tribute to the woman he admires.
Ghosh struck upon this idea when he saw a video on Banerjee‘s life made by a local channel. “They asked me to help assemble the footages and when I went through it, Mamatadi came across as such an interesting character that I decided to make a full blown documentary on her,” reveals Ghosh.
“She is an ordinary person with no political lineage. It is all due to her hard work and down-to-earth attitude that she is where she is today. The educated middle class has a strange snobbery about people like Mamata and I think it is high time they change their attitude,” he adds.
The ace filmmaker plans to start the documentary as soon as the feature film he is currently working on concludes.
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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.
