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Big Pictures to release The Other End of the Line across North America
MUMBAI: Big Pictures, the film production and distribution arm of Reliance ADA Group, in association with MGM and Hyde Park Entertainment, is releasing The Other End of the Line on 31 October in North America. Big Picture is releasing 91 prints of the film across North America.
Produced by Ashok Amritraj and directed by James Dodson, The Other End of the Line is a romantic comedy based on an employee at an Indian call-center who travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
This is the first of its kind tie up for the marketing/distribution of an American film, in North America done by Big Pictures.
Big Pictures international film business COO Jawahar Sharma said, “Working with Amritraj and MGM has been a pleasure. This is an example of how film companies around the world are realising how even in their home markets occasionally, they need to deploy special external resources to reach out to their target audience”.
The film has Shriya Saran, Jesse Metcalfe, Anupam Kher, Sara Foster and Larry Miller in central roles.
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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.
