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Asian Society launches fellowship for six budding screenwriters
MUMBAI: In order to give impetus to people who have a story to relate and want to use cinema as a medium to do the same, the Asia Society India Centre, a part of Time Warner‘s philanthropic activities, has launched a ‘New Voices Fellowship‘.
The Fellowship will give six selected screenwriters a chance to be trained and mentored by a panel of screenwriters that consists of names like Anjum
Rajabali, Jaideep Sahni, Sreeram Raghavan, Saket Chaudhary, Dev Benegal, Ashwini Malik and Vinay Shukla.
After the interested mail of their registered scripts to the Society’s website between 11 July and 31 August, a filtration process would follow by which the best six would be chosen.
The selected screenwriters will be paid a stipend of Rs 100,000 and made to attend two five-day long workshops along with various other members of the industry.
Though the criteria to pick the best stories in a system such as this is obviously hard to pin point, the panel did reveal that they were looking for stories based around interior India. “We have to accept that in the recent past, our films deal with the urban life, love and youth. Where have the villages gone?” asked Rajabali.
Though there is no clause that the mentors will help sell the script to Bollywood as well, the writers have promised that if they find it worthy, they will personally ensure it gets noticed
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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.
