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Task force set up on film, video, cable and music piracy
NEW DELHI: A Task Force has been set up by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry under the chairman of the Special Secretary Uday Varma to recommend measures to combat film, video, cable and video piracy.
The Task Force will have filmmaker Yash Chopra, Film & Television Producers’ Guild of India President Manmohan Shetty; former Film Federation of India President G. Adisheshagiri Rao; Indian Broadcasting Foundation President Jawahar Goel, and Association of Radion Operators’s of India member Prashant Pandey.
The Task Force will hold consultations with State Governments as well as stakeholders before finalizing their recommendations and submit its report within a period of six months – before 18 June 2010.
The decision to form the Task Force had been taken following the recommendations of the 27th State Information Ministers’ Conference (SIMCON) held here on 5 December 2009.
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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.
