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Amar Maa to screen at Cannes this year
MUMBAI:Producer director Samir Mukherjee’s short film Amar Maa (My Mother) will screen at the Cannes Film Festival due in May.
Amar Maa is the story of a Bengali woman Moumita Sen who, after living with her mother in Kolkata for 27 years, has come to New York to pursue her doctorate. She falls in love, gets engaged and is to be married to an American named Mark.
But Moumita is yet to break this news to her mother. She struggles to find an opportune moment to reveal this news to her mother about this.
She gets sick with thoughts. And when her mother finally learns about Mark, she disowns the daughter. However, Mark sees another side to the woman he loves. The rest forms the crux of the film.
The film has been screened earlier at different film festivals around the globe like Yes India Film Festival, New Zealand, Stepping Stone Film Festival, Bangalore and Bombay Elektrik Showcase, Mumbai.
The short film made at a cost of Rs 30 million stars Rachana Shah, Don Castro, Pallavi Desai, Uttara Desai and Avik Sur. It is expecting an online release this year at Amazon or Dingora.com.
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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.
