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Summary Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan inaugurated the 42nd IFFI in Goa.
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan inaugurated the 42nd International Film Festival of India in Goa on Wednesday with actor Raima Sen, actor Prem Chopra and directors Sudhir Mishra and Nikhil Advani in attendance.The Festival, to run till December 2, will close with another heroic saga, that of the Burmese political activist, Aung Saang Sui Kyi, in Luc Besson’s The Lady, which recently premiered at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Both Besson and the film’s lead star, Michelle Yeoh, will walk the Red Carpet on the closing night.Between the opening and the closing, hundred-odd movies will be screened including 14 in competition. Salim Ahamed’s national-award-winning Malayalam work, Adaminte Makan Abu will be one of the competing entries, with the others coming in from Iran, Japan, Australia, Poland, Germany, Spain and Iceland among others.
