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Indian film bags Humanitarian award at Tiburon fest
MUMBAI:The Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti- directed Understanding Trafficking has won the Humanitarian Award at the Tiburon International Film Festival 2011.
“Understanding Trafficking stresses the difference between women who migrate and join the sex trade and women who are trafficked into the sex trade”, states the official website of the festival. Therefore it is wrong to classify all women who make it to the world’s oldest profession as victims of trafficking. That’s what filmmaker Ananya Chatterjee-Chakraborti’s film Understanding Trafficking seeks to convey.”
Polish film Little Rose was adjudged the best film while its director Jan Kidawa-Blonski was declared best director.
Chatterjee-Chakraborti has made several documentaries on women’s issues before like Dwitiya Paksha, Gandhari and Half Way Home.
Three other documentaries by Indian filmmakers/about India — Dreaming Taj Mahal by Nirmal Chander Dandriyal, Letters to Dharavi by Saravanan Ganesan and Letters from the Desert (India/Italy) directed by Michela Occhipinti – were also screened in the festival.
The festival was held from 7 to 15 April in Tiburon, California. ”
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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.
