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FTII film for Venice Film Festival
MUMBAI: A film made by the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune has made it to the Venice International Film Festival. The last film that was showed at the festival was Sant Tukaram in 1937.
Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniyan (The man‘s woman and other stories) directed by Amit Dutta, an FTII graduate of the 2004 batch will premiere at the 66th edition of the festival to be held from 2 -12 September.
Dutta has earlier won a number of awards for his short films including FIPRESCI Award at the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany, the Gold Mikaldi at Bilbao in Spain and two National Awards from the Government of India, among others. Some of his earlier films include the diploma film Kramasha that earned him the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the film Kshya Tra Ghya that won him the special jury award and the best audiography award at the National Awards in 2005-06.
Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniyan the fourth in the series of films made after the revival of the acting course in 2005-06 has been selected in the competition section of Horizon.
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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.
