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Asha for Education hosts India’s Film Festival of Hope in San Francisco
MUMBAI: Asha for Education, a San Francisco-based non-profit organisation, is hosting its first annual “India‘s Film Festival of Hope” today.
Through this festival, Asha for Education will showcase documentary films, photography and arts with an aim to “paint the picture of underprivileged kids in today‘s India and bring in hope for a better tomorrow.”
Some of the documentaries that are being screened at the festival include Raju and I, I want my Father back, The New Heroes: India, with Robert Redford, Child in law, Patta Patta Akshar Hoga, Born into Brothels, Calcutta Calling and Fragile Promise.
While Born into Brothels won the Oscars in the best documentary film category, Raju and I won the best animated feature film award at the India’s 52nd National Films Awards.
Apart from documentaries, the festival is featuring photographs taken by the children from the workshops run by Asha. It is also showcasing Mithila paintings, created by marginalised women in Northern India from PinkMango.
“Our focus is to raise awareness. We endeavor to present a window into the real India through these breakthrough films created by talented documentary filmmakers. The hope, or should I say ‘asha,‘ is to build a sound future for all those underprivileged children living in India,” said Asha for Education director Hemang Kapasi.
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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.
