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Raj Kapoor museum on anvil near Pune
MUMBAI: Ten years after the Raj Kapoor family gave away their Rajbaug Farms at Loni near Pune to MIT Institute of Design, a museum dedicated to the late Raj Kapoor is coming up in the complex.
“People who have been to the farm way back in those days will not be able to recognise what they see today. But I like what Dr Karnad, Director of MIT Institute of Design, has done to the place. It looks no less than Harvard right here on the outskirts of Pune. Dr Karnad is now working on transforming my father’s house there into a museum of sorts that will feature a lot of dad‘s work,” said Rajiv Kapoor in a statement.
The museum is being constructed with a theme, ‘ The seven pagodas’. Each section will have on display a statue of Raj Kapoor seen as one of the popular characters he played on the big screen.
The rest of the rooms will showcase posters, photographs, trivia and such other interesting things from the life of the actor during that period.
The halls will then lead, through a common hallway of paintings of the star, to an amphitheatre, wherein guests will be allowed to watch any of the actor‘s films.
The construction of the museum is going on in full swing and it‘s a matter of time before the museum is up and ready and open for public viewing.
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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.
