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The Bengali Detective to screen at LA Asian Pacific Film fest
MUMBAI: Phil Cox’ The Bengali Detective will screen at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011.
The feature length-long documentary is all about adultery, fraud and murder investigated by dance-obsessed private eye Rajeshji. The film
is the fusion of conventions of observational realism and a few Bhangra numbers.
“Perhaps what may be one of the most intriguing factors of The Bengali Detective is its set-up of a personal documentary, brimming with one
man’s personal journey with an unfiltered, non-Hollywood-dramatized India as its backdrop”, the official website of the festival states.
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival began in 1983 to promote Asian and Asian Pacific American cinema.
The festival will take place from 28 April to 7 May.
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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.
