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Indian to preside over short film jury at Locarno fest
MUMBAI: This year‘s jury of the Locarno Film Festival has been announced.
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco will preside over a jury to decide on winners in various categories in the main competition section.
Others on the jury besides Branco are French actor and director Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), German actress Sandra Hüller (Requiem), Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli (The Murder Farm) and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca (The Best of Youth).
Presiding over the Pardi di domani section (short film section) will be Indu Shrikent, film critic and director of the Osian‘s Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (India). She will be judging entries in the national and international competition along with the Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze, Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval, Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi and the French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski (Dear Prudence).
The section is reserved for short subjects by directors who have yet to make a full-length feature.
Others who will take part as the jury are German director Christoph Hochhäusler who will preside over Locarno‘s Discovery sidebar jury that includes Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino, Filipino director Raya Martin, Chinese producer Zhu Rikun and the Greek producer and director Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Lastly, film critics Anthony Bobeau (France), Robert Koehler (USA) and Kong Rithdee (Thailand) will select the best debut feature from among the titles presented in the main competition section.
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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.
