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Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun to screen at Tel Aviv film fest
MUMBAI: India’s first gay film, Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun, has been selected to be screened at the 4th Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival in June.
Fifty features and seventy short films will be presented at this year‘s festival.
The festival will kick off on 11 June with a festive screening of Strella by Greek director Panos H. Koutras, which had its world premiere at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival will host a tribute to the Mix Brasil festival, considered to be the major gay film festival in South America. The Brazilian festival‘s director, Suzy Capo, will be in Israel as a guest of TLVFest and introduce a programme that gives a multifaceted picture of Brazil.
SDue to the large number of short films submitted to this year‘s festival, the short Israeli movie competition will be divided into two clusters. The winning film will get a NIS 3,000 prize and be sent to participate at the IRIS British festival.
Among the festival‘s guests this year are American director, screenwriter and producer Allan Brocka, French director Remi Lange and independent director and screenwriter Maria Beatty.
The festival will conclude on 18 June.
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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.
