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NDTV Lumiere, Excel release six world cinema titles on DVD
MUMBAI: NDTV Lumiere and Excel Home Videos have released world titles namely Short Sharp Shock (German), Crossed Tracks (French), Playtime (1967) (French), Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953) (French), Jour De Fete (1953) (French) and Mon Uncle (1958) (French) on DVD. The DVDs are priced at Rs 499.
German director Fatih Akin’s debut film Short Sharp Shock is a ghetto-centric gangster movie, depicting the gritty story of three men whose friendship is put to test on the mean streets of the city.
Claude Lelouch’s Crossed Tracks won the Cesar Awards 2008 and was screened at festival de Cannes 2008, The Copenhagen International film festival 2007 and The Palm Springs International Film Awards 2008. Crossed Tracks, a romantic thriller, is a taut and tense journey of suspense and second-guessing filled to the brim with red herrings and false endings.
French filmmaker Jacque Tati’s fourth film, Playtime, won the 1969 Bodil Award for Best European Film. Playtime depicts Paris a soulless concrete jungle where Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Considered by many to be Jacques Tati’s funniest film, Mr. Hulot’s Holiday was nominated for an Oscar for best writing, story and screenplay in 1956, and won the Prix Louis Delluc, France’s highest film award, in 1953.
Jacques Tati’s first feature film, Jour De Fete, was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (1949). A silent comedy film set in the French countryside, it casts a look at the modern day obsession with speed and efficiency.
Jacques Tati’s third feature Mon Uncle has won multiple awards including the Prix Special Du Jury at the Festival de Cannes, the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and the 1959 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This comedy centers around a dimwitted yet lovable character of Monsieur Hulot and his quixotic struggle with postwar France‘s infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and American-style consumerism.
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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.
