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Salman Khan eyes remake of Mirapakaya
MUMBAI: Looks like Salman Khan has developed a penchant for South-made films. With his Wanted, a remake of Pokiri, already a hit, Khan is currently remaking three South Indian super hits – Ready (Telugu), Bodyguard (Malayalam) and Kick (Telugu).
As if this was not enough, Khan is set to remake yet another South Indian super hit Mirapakaya (2011), a cop-action-comedy, directed by Harish Shankar, that stars Ravi Teja.
Mirapakaya tells the story of an inspector in the intelligence bureau named Rishi (Ravi Teja), fondly called Mirapakaya (red chilli). He goes undercover to track a mafia don and gets himself appointed as a Hindi professor in a university in Hyderabad. There he meets Vinamra (Richa Gangopadhyay) at a temple and falls in love with her. Incidentally, she studies in the same college and their love blossoms.
At this juncture, Vaishali (Deeksha Seth), daughter of the goon Kittu Bhai (Prakashraj) Teja, is after and joins the same college. Rishi‘s boss asks him to extract information about Kittu from Vaishali and for that, Teja ends up in a love triangle between his true love and Vaishali.
Khan plans to retain the original director for the Hindi version in the regard to which talks are currently on.
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.
