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NYIFF announces nominations of 12th edition
MUMBAI: The 12th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) has announced the nominations for various categories of awards. The festival will be held from 23 to 27 May at the Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.
The NYIFF will screen more than 50 features, documentaries and short films in a span of five days. Among the nominees of the Best Film are Aadukalam, Chitrangada, Chittagong, Gangs of Wasseypur, Gattu and Shala.
Films vying for the Best Documentary are Big in Bollywood, Inshallah Football, Kumare, Saving Face and Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret.
Those filmmakers who have been nominated for the Best Director award are Sujay Dahake for Shala, Rituparno Ghosh for Chitrangada, Anurag Kashyap for Gangs of Wasseypur, Vetri Maaran for Aadukalam, Prashant Nair for Delhi in a Day and Bedabrata Pain for Chittagong.
The screenwriters nominated for Best Screenplay are Pooja Desai, Anvita Dutt, Rajesh Narasimhan and Ashish Patil (Mujshe Fraaandship Karoge), Avinash Deshpande (Shala), Rituparno Ghosh (Chitrangada), Vetri Maaran (Aadukalam) and Bedabrata Pain and Shonali Bose (Chittagong).
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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.
