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The 6th Asian Film Festival will be held in Mumbai from 2 Nov – 8 Nov
MUMBAI: The film sections at the festival include Spectrum Asia (Contemporary Asian films), First/ Second Film Competition (for Asian directors), Best Short film festival (for new talent), The Award Winners (award-winning Asian films that bagged the top honours at Global film festivals), Focus on One Asian Country, Retro (Retrospectives of Indian and Asian directors).
The festival will be hosted at the Plaza Theatre, Fame Nakshatra, Dadar and Y.B.Chavan Centre, Nariman Point.
Some of the films scheduled are Bitter Dream (Iran), Farewell to death (China), Gimme Kudos (China), Notebook (Japan), Vanaja (Ind-USA), Kabuliwala (India-retro), Kurosawa‘s Seven Samurai, Tagore straight from the heart (India) and Bheja Fry (India), Valley of Flowers (Ind-France-Germany).
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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.
