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Oscar winner, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies
New Delhi: Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85.
Firoza Jhabvala said her mother died in New York after a long illness.
The German-born Jhabvala was a longtime member of Merchant Ivory Productions, writing 22 films over four decades.
She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels ”Howards End” and ”A Room With a View.”
She also was nominated for the screenplay for 1993‘s ”The Remains of the Day.”
Jhabvala was also recognized for her fiction, receiving Britain’s highest literary honour for her 1975 novel, ”Heat and Dust.”
Jhabvala is survived by Firoza Jhabvala and two other daughters, her husband, Cyrus Jhabvala, and six grandchildren.
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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.
