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2nd Jagran Film Festival to kick off at Kanpur on 9 July
MUMBAI: Sudhir Mishra‘s Dharavi will open the second edition of Jagran Film Festival, the traveling film festival initiated by Jagran Prakashan on 9 July at Kanpur.
Other films that will be screened in the two-day festival at Kanpur are Radio Comes To Rampur by Asha Dutta, Sikandar by Piyush Jha, Haat: The Weekly Bazar by Seema Kapoor, Gandhi To Hitler by Rakesh Ranjan Kumar and a documentary Teesra Rasta directed by Anwar Jamal.
Said Jagran Film Festival Director Pankaj Dubey, “JFF has attained a new level this year by introducing a new section of Shorts and Documentary films. We are doing a ‘Retrospective of films by Anwar Jamal‘. Another addition this year is a section on Children cinema produced by Children‘s Film Society of India.”
Besides, there will be a panel discussion on the second day of the festival, the topic of which is “Does State Funding of Cinema restrict its reach?”. Film personalists who will take part in the discussion are Sudhir Mishra, Om Puri, Sanjay Suri, Seema Kapoor and Anwar Jamal.
The festival will then travel to nine other cities like Allahabad, Agra, Varanasi, Patna, Meerut, Dehradun, Lucknow, Ranchi and Jamshedpur.
The Festival will conclude in New Delhi with an award function. The Jury for the festival includes Satish Kaushik, Dr. Ashok Chakradhar, Seema Kapoor, Lillete Dubey and Amit Rai.
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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.
