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Kaavalan to screen at Shanghai Film Festival
MUMBAI:Organisers of the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) have selected Tamil film actor Vijay’s film Kaavalan for screening in the Panorama section. The festival kicks off on 11 June.
It is for the first time in his career spanning 53 films that Vijay‘s film is being selected to be screened at an international festival. The actor has accepted to be the chief guest of the festival after an invitation from the organisers. The actor has decided to take time off from shooting to attend the festival.
Said Rekhs, co-ordinator for South Indian movies for International film festivals and the person responsible for subtitling, “I had gone to Dehradun to do a one-minute role in Shankar‘s Nanban (Tamil remake of Three Idiots). I had the opportunity and time to meet Vijay there. I told him that I had subtitled Kavalan. Vijay readily offered to pay the cost of registering and couriering the film to festivals.”
The SIFF will take off with Director Barry Levinson and other six international judges attending the opening ceremony. Levinson‘s works will be shown in the Tribute to the Masters section.
The Film Festival, founded in 1993, is China‘s only A-category international film festival accredited by the Federation of Film Producers Associations based in Paris and also one of the most prestigious film festivals in Asia.
Every year, SIFF receives nearly 2,500 entries from over 80 countries of which 200 films are selected.
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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.
