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NDTV Lumiere to showcase Cannes festival winners across mutiple platforms
MUMBAI: NDTV Lumi?re is set to showcase five “select” films to the Indian audiences that did well at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival 2008.
NDTV Lumi?re, the initiative of NDTV Imagine to bring world cinema to Indian audiences, will present these films in the coming months across multiple platforms ranging from theatrical releases to home video and television.
The films include The Class, Three Monkeys, Delta, and A Christmas Tale.
While Laurent Cantent‘s The Class won the Palme d’Or (Best Film) award at Cannes this year, Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the best director award for Three Monkeys.
Delta won the International Federation of Film Critics award. This award is given by independent entities to movies “that are beyond excellence.”
The critic’s award, which is given away to the best film in the International Critics Week Competition (a sidebar competition at Cannes), was bagged by Bosnian director Aida Begic’s Snow.
Catherine Deneuve, who stars in A Christmas Tale, won the special prize at festival.
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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.
