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India’s Firaaq to open South Asian International Film Festival
MUMBAI: The South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) 2008, presented by HBO, will open with Nandita Das’ Firaaq on 22 October in New York.
The film festival will close on 28 October with Pakistani film-maker Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani. The film stars Bollywood actress Nandita Das, along with Pakistani actors Rashid Farooqui, Noman Ijaz, Maria Wasti, Navaid Jabbar and child actor Syed Fazal Hussain.
Director Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming flick Fashion will be premiered on 24 October at 10 pm.
The seven-day film festival will showcase features, short-films, and documentaries like The Pool, Morning Ritual, To Be…Me, Will Think For Food, Milind Soman Made Me Gay, Lalbatti, A Drop Of Life, The President Is Coming, Rewind, Narmeen, Clean Linen, The Only Thing, The Private Life Of Albert Pinto, Sukrit‘s Sundays, Akasa Kusum (Flowers In The Sky), Arranging Love, Seventh Seam, A Drop Of Life, Healthy. Happy. Holy., Kerala Brides, Mohandas, Shades Of Ray, Antardwand, The Whisperers, Mahek, A Home In The Sky, Lost & Found, 21-12-2012 and Mara Move On.
The SAIFF is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting established and emerging artists from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
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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.
