from Rajtilak Naik
for Daijiworld Media Network – Panaji (SM)

Panaji, Nov 14: The capital is all set and busy gearing up for the mega event of Indian and world cinema.

Preparations are on its highest peak for the forthcoming 38th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) scheduled from Friday November 23 to Monday December 3 here.

This year the festival is planning to accommodate more than 6,000 delegates from all over the world excluding the media. Head of the IFFI organizing committee Vishnu Wagh stated that the festival will basically focus on pure cinema excluding everything else.

This year the main highlight of the festival will be the first-time participation of Pakistan.  The festival will be inaugurated by Bollywood megastar Sharukh Khan on Friday November 23 at Kala Academy. 

Related Photo news:

Roads in Panaji are being hot-mixed in view of the International Film Festival

In view of the forthcoming International Film Festival of India, workers are seen busy in the footpath work, outside the office of the Entertainment Society

A worker is seen busy painting the Mandovi riverside railing here as a part of the preparation for the forthcoming International Film Festival of India

Inox, one of the prime film screening theatre multiplexes during the IFFI 2007 is getting ready for the mega event

A special phone chamber is being fitted outside the office of the Entertainment Society of Goa in Panaji

The Entertainment Society building is getting facelift ahead of the festival.