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Indiavideo.org celebrating 100 years of Hindi cinema
MUMBAI: To mark this historic occasion of Bollywood turning hundred this year, www.indiavideo.org has launched a year-long celebration to take the viewers to the key moments in the momentous journey of Hindi cinema.
As part of the centenary fete, the website will feature 365 films carefully chosen to represent the history of Bollywood. Here one can watch some all-time hit films, some trend setters in storytelling and techniques and more importantly, films by which some ordinary men and women rose to stardom.
The special centenary gallery on the website, and its YouTube channel, has already become a hit among Bollywood fans spread across the world. Clippings of the selected movies are presented along with a brief talk on the specialties and historical aspects of the film. The nearly two-minute movie will have the best moments in a film.
The films were chosen by researcher and columnist Vijay Kumar Balakrishnan, a collector of Bollywood posters, gramophone records, song books, vintage films etc, who has been exploring Bollywood for the past 40 years.
“From Dadasaheb Phalke, V Shantaram, Himanshu Rai, Vijay Bhatt, Fateh Lal, Sohrab Modi, Damle, Bimal Roy, Mehboob Khan, Raj Kapoor to G P Sippy, Mahesh Bhatt, Shekhar Kapur, Mira Nair, Aamir Khan, Ram Gopal Varma and Karan Johar, the gallery will introduce personalities who influenced the industry from time to time,” said Balakrishnan in a statement.
He added that the gallery has rare and exclusive visuals of old films like Raja Harishchandra, Ayodhya ka Raja, Pukar, Kapal Kundala, Izzat, Doctor, Maya Machindra among others.
The project is supported by Culture Shoppe, an online cultural gift shop and Mulamoottil Eye Hospital, a super specialty eye hospital.
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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.
