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Dabangg, Robot and BBB win maximum IIFA technical awards
MUMBAI: In the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) technical awards category, Band Baaja Baaraat, Dabangg and Robot have bagged top honours with three awards apiece.
The trophies will be presented to the winners during the Videocon IIFA Weekend in Toronto, Canada.
For Maneesh Sharma‘s Band Baaja Baaraat, the winners were Namrata Rao for editing; Vijay Dayal for song recording and Niharika Khan for costume designing.
Banu won the special effects by Indian artistes and make-up award, while Sabu Cyril bagged the best art director award for Rajnikanth starrer Robot.
Salman Khan starrer “Dabangg” won an award for choreography for “Munni badnaam hui” choreographed by Farah Khan, while Leslie Fernandes bagged the award for song recording. The film also won the award for best action by S. Vijayan.
The award for best cinematographer was given to Sudeep Chatterjee for Guzaarish, while Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy went home with a medal for best background score for My Name Is Khan. Pritam Das won for best sound recording for Love, Sex aur Dhoka.
The nominations for the popular categories of the IIFA Awards 2011 will open for public voting on the 10 May. Indian Cinema fans worldwide can cast their votes.
The votes from the online polling will be tallied by PWC and will only be announced on the night of the IIFA Awards at the Rogers Centre, Toronto.
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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.
