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Q teams up with PocketFilms to distribute quirky films online
NEW DELHI: Independent filmmaker Q (Qaushiq Mukherjee) and online portal PocketFilms have teamed up to distribute offbeat and quirky independent films online.
The slate of films including shorts, documentaries and music videos will be selected by Q.
It will include Q‘s Gandu and his national award winning documentary Love in India.
Q and his team have acquired content for the slate from Marche du Film (Cannes Film Market) this year.
"I am excited to curate films that I love and get inspired by. There is a growing interest in independent films in India, and we need to watch more films that really challenge the existing modes of cinema, and tell stories in a postmodern context," Q said.
PocketFilms is a portal dedicated to content by independent filmmakers, and I am certain that this slate will engage viewers and build new reference points," said Q, whose films have been picked up by international sales agents and are being distributed around the world.
"The distribution theories are being overhauled currently across the board, and I truly believe Internet is the real future for transgressive content," he added.
The new initiative called PocketOverdoseFilms will be online in the next quarter, with a collection of Indian and International independent films.
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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.
