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Cannes fest to be mix of glamour and Cinema this year
MUMBAI: This year’s Cannes Film Festival is set to be a mix of glamour and cinema. While Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Freida Pinto will grace the opening ceremony, four Indian films will be premiered at the festival.
Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur will have its premiere in the non-competitive Directors‘ Fortnight section. Peddlers and Ashim Ahluwalia‘s Miss Lovely will also be screened. Also set to screen will be Chana, directed by Nikhil Pherwani.
Sonam Kapoor will walk the red carpet at the closing ceremony of the festival.
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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.
