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Indian film Yeti screened to applauding audiences in Torino in Italy
NEW DELHI: Abhijit Mazumdar’s Yeti was screened to raving audiences at the 32nd Torino Film Festival in Italy, which concluded today. The film was screened in the ONDE (Waves) section of the festival, which is a non-competitive showcase of experimental films.
Yeti is about a film crew which is shooting a movie in Mumbai. Because of tensions in the country, work slows down, and as reality slowly comes out into the shot footage, fiction does the same off the set, and the images contain inextricable truths.
The festival called the film “a disturbing and at times surprising theorem of cinematography and cinephiles, suspended between Blow-Up, The Conversation and, above all, the cinema of Tsai Ming-liang.”
Mazumdar is a Direction graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has made a number of short films, documentaries and commercials. His films have received both national and international awards. Mazumdar’s earlier short vanishing point was screened in the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in 2012.
It was also screened at Glasgow Shorts, and Jameson Durban Film Festivals and in the International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala (Focus Section) 2012.
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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.
