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Jugal Hansraj to take animation master class at Melbourne fest
MUMBAI: Jugal Hansraj, who directed YRF and Disney‘s first collaborative animation film Roadside Romeo in 2008, will address a master class on animation at Indian Film Festival Melbourne, scheduled to go underway from 11 to 22 June.
Hansraj will be present at the festival along with Rajkumar Hirani, Rituparno Ghosh and Sabyasachi Mukherjee, who will conduct master classes on expertise in their respective fields.
In a 90-minute presentation, the actor-director will share his first hand experiences of directing Roadside Romeo because it was the first mainstream, non-mythological animation film.
Hansraj, who last directed Pyaar Impossible in 2010, is ready with several new scripts. He is in talks with several producers and hopes to start work on one of these scripts by the end of this year.
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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.
