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Osian’s Film Festival from 24 to 30 October
NEW DELHI: About 100 feature and short films from across 25 countries including India will be screened in the 11th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. The festival will be held in Delhi from 24 to 30 October.
As in previous years, the festival is being organised by Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art in association with the government of the NCT of Delhi.
The opening film of the festival will be a France-Romanian co-production, Hooked, directed by Adrian Sitaru.
For the first time, India will be in the spotlight at the festival. Said Osian‘s chairman Neville Tuli, “With Osian’s entering the world of learning and education with Osian’s Learning Experience (OLE), the programming lineup of the festival has altered profoundly providing a radical platform for OLE. The role of learning and education will henceforth be taken up in an explicit manner.”
Tuli denied that the festival had been scaled down but said priorities had been re-defined.
The NewStream Cinema section with six prominent Hindi films takes this concept further and will showcase and explore exhaustively films that have dared to redefine mainstream cinema.
These films are Amir, Dev D, Kaminey, Love Aaj Kal, Luck by Chance and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!.
In a new initiative, there is the InDialogue section of 34 films from 28 countries that show a dialogue of sensibilities amongst the makers of a certain kind of cinema dedicated to the subtlest and most intelligent employment of the possibilities of the cinematic, all over the world.
The Indian features in the InCompetition section are 033, Khargosh and Man’s Woman and other stories.
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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.
