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Percept gets Mirah Entertainment to participate in 8X10 Tasveer
MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company (PPC) has added Mirah Entertainment to its list of financiers ahead of the release of 8X10 Tasveer.
Mirah Entertainment will get limited joint exploitation of commercial rights for an undisclosed investment. PPC is also in talks with another partner for joint exploitation of television rights of the movie.
Says PPC CEO Navin Shah, “We are finalising another partner for joint exploitation of television rights of the movie soon. We are confident that our relationship with Sahara One and Mirah Entertainment would grow from strength to strength.”
Indiantelevision.com was the first to report that Sahara One Motion Pictures had put in Rs 100 million to get a 20 per cent revenue share.
Says Mirah Entertainment MD Gaurav Goenka, “8×10 Tasveer has the potential to open up a completely new genre of psychological thrillers in Hindi cinema.”
8X10 Tasveer is due for release this Friday, 3 April. Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and starring Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Takia, Sharmila Tagore, Javed Jaffery, Girish Karnad, Anant Mahadevan, Benjamin Gilani and Rushaad Rana, the film revolves around the story of a young man with a unique supernatural gift of looking into the past of dead people.
PPC claims that it is spending more than Rs 90 million on just marketing and film publicity and it will release with more than 1500 prints in screens across India and overseas.
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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.
