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Mahesh Bhatt planning film version of The Last Salute
MUMBAI: Going by the immense response that his play The Last Salute has been getting since it premiered in New Delhi last week, Mahesh Bhatt has decided to make a celluloid version of the play.
The play explores facts of the gulf crisis and the US intervention which has been questioned by the civilized world time and again. It explores emotions, talks about how world peace and political orders of the day effect the common man.
While Pooja Bhatt will co-produce the film with Dino Morea. Bhatt is also planning to collaborate with the writer of the book Muntadhar Al Zaidi on the screenplay.
The film, to be shot entirely in Lebanon with an international technical crew, will be in Arabic and English with subtitles in order to present it to a global audience.
Incidentally, the play stars Imran Zahid as Zaidi, the 32-year-old Iraqi journalist, who came to the limelight having thrown a shoe at former US President George Bush in 2008.
Casting of the film is in progress.
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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.
