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Life! Camera Action to screen at Carmarthen Bay Film Festival
MUMBAI: Life! Camera Action, filmmaker Rohit Gupta’s ambitious film, has been officially selected to screen at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival scheduled to take place from 8 to 11 May in Wales.
The 89-minute film in English, Hindi and Punjabi is a touching saga of Reina, a young, Indian-American woman who sets off to pursue a career in filmmaking against the wishes of her family. She struggles to complete her annual film project, working double shifts at an Indian restaurant and a DVD store. Reina eventually begins to see the need to reach out to her estranged parents as she begins to discover herself.
The film has won numerous international awards around the world including bagging top nine most popular awards at the 28th Goldie Film Awards 2012 recently held in Florida, US.
It is said that the producer is in talks with a major distribution company and gearing up for a worldwide release in 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.
