As Goa gears up to host the 54th edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) starting November 20, there’s a lot in store for movie buffs to look forward to. While the film screenings, masterclass and in-conversation sessions with the members of the film fraternity are the high point of the 9-day film extravaganza, the star presence at IFFI is going to be on an all-time high this year. 

Starting from Salman Khan who will be attending the gala premiere of his production Farrey that marks the debut of his niece Alizeh Agnihotri, Sara Ali Khan and Karan Johar bringing their film Ae Watan Mere Watan at the festival, to Pankaj Tripathi at the screening of his film Kadak Singh, IFFI has quite a glitzy line-up of celebs present for their respective film premieres. Others names that are going to be present for their film premiers include actors Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjana Sanghi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Urvashi Rautela, Prachi Desai, Parvathy Thiruvothu and Akshay Oberoi.

Not just the red carpet premiers, the masterclass and in-conversation sessions, too, are going to be driven by star power and some extremely meaningful conversations on a variety of subjects pertaining to film business. Some of the speakers would include Sunny Deol, Vidya Balan, Rani Mukerji, Manoj Bajpayee, Boney Kapoor, Dolly Ahluwalia and the cast of web show The Railway Men - actors R Madhavan, Babil Khan, Kay Kay Menon and Divyenndu Sharma, alongside filmmaker Rahul Rawail, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, directors Kartiki Gonsalves, Jasmeet K. Reen and Raj & DK, producers Guneet Monga and Apoorva Bakshi and sound designer Resul Pookutty.

Besides members from the Hindi film industry, several top names from the South film industries are also going to make their presence felt at the film festival. Vijay Sethupathi will be in conversation with actor Khushbu Sunder, while Naga Chaitanya will be in attendance for the gala premier of his project Dhootha.