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Shankar Mohan to officiate as director of International Flim Festival of India
NEW DELHI: Shankar Mohan, Joint Director in the Directorate of Film Festivals, will officiate as Director of the International Film Festival of India in November in Panaji this year.
Mohan also holds additional charge as Director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India in Kolkata.
Mohan has been associated with the DFF for over 20 years, having commenced his innings here as Deputy Director and later being elevated to the rank of Senior Deputy Director and then Joint Director.
Anil Saxena, Director of Public Relations for Railways in the Press Information Bureau, will continue to hold additional charge as Director of Film Festivals. Saxena belongs to the 1984 batch of the Indian Information Service.
Meanwhile, Indrani Bose has joined as Deputy Director of the Directorate of Film Festivals. Prior to this, Bose worked with the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema and later with the Network for Promotion for Asian Cinema.
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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.
