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Shemaroo organises ‘Kurosawa Film Festival’ from 24 July
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment is taking a magnificent step to make World Cinema more accessible to the Indian audiences like never before.
2009 being the centenary birth anniversary of the renowned Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, Shemaroo World Cinema has organised a Kurosawa Film Festival that will be held in cities like Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.
The festival will kick-start on 24 July in Kolkata and will be shown all over till September.
On the home video front, four of Kurosawa‘s titles namely Rashomon, Ran, Madadayo and Quiet Duel, will be launched on DVD.
These titles will now be available to Kurosawa fans across India with bonus features and Hindi sub-titles.
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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.
