Overview
- Union Minister of State Dr L Murugan announced the felicitation at a media briefing attended by Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
- IFFI runs from November 20 to 28, with the closing ceremony set at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium in Goa.
- The festival will open with a float parade along Panaji’s D B Bandodkar Road featuring 12 tableaux themed on Indian cinema.
- Organisers report around 7,500 registered delegates and screenings drawn from major global festivals including Cannes, Berlinale and Venice.
- Rajinikanth recently appeared in Coolie and is working on Jailer 2, while Balakrishna is developing Akhanda 2 and a film with Gopichand Malineni and serves as a TDP MLA.