Hindi
Kamal Hassan back to Bollywood with Amar Hain
MUMBAI: Kamal Hassan is returning to the Hindi screen after a gap of 12 long years. The actor-producer-director is set to enter the arena with a separate Hindi version of his big-budgeted Tamil film.
According to Hassan, he wrote the script two years ago but put it aside because it required great intellectual and financial inputs. “I think I am now ready on both counts,” he is quoted to have said.
Titled Amar Hain, the film will take a dispassionate look at the legitimisation of corruption in present-day India. Though the film isn‘t judgmental about corruption, it looks at contemporary mores dispassionately.
The other angle is the invisibility of global crime lords in the era of technology. “In the digital era, everything including crime is on the computer and the phone. That‘s why we never see global players in the crime game in our country. They don‘t need to since all their work is digitally manouevred. Amar Hain goes into all of this,” Hassan added.
The film will be made in Tamil and Hindi with Hassan himself helming the project, besides playing the lead in both the versions.
The last film Hasan produced, directed and acted was Hey Ram in 2000.
Hindi
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.
