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Sikandar to be screened at Indian Film Festival, Los Angeles
MUMBAI: Piyush Jha‘s latest directorial venture Sikandar is set to be screened at the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on 22 April. The festival will commence on 21 April and run till 26 April.
A co-production between Big Pictures, the motion pictures brand from Reliance Big Entertainment and Sudhir Mishra‘s CineRaas, Sikandar is a suspense thriller centering around an adolescent whose life changes drastically when he comes across a gun.
The six-day festival will open with Anand Surapur‘s The Fakir of Venice. The film is about two Indian con men who venture to Venice and find themselves in a strange land where their culture is commodified and exploited for artistic, political and spiritual purposes.
IFFLA will close with Megan Doneman‘s Yes Madam, Sir, a documentary profiling Dr Kiran Bedi, the first woman to join the Indian Police Service and a controversial and inspiring figure in India.
The other highlights of the event include Nandita Das‘s directorial debut Firaaq, Deepa Mehta‘s Heaven on Earth, Sooni Taraporevala‘s Little Zizou and Nina Paley‘s animated film Sita Sings the Blues.
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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.
