The festival which celebrates Indian cinema worldwide will have some of the most popular female singers from Pakistan and India performing at its sixth edition, as well as Bollywood celebrities.

The festival will be held this month and the theme for this year is women empowerment. Artists such as Pakistani singer-songwriter Sara Haider, award-winning Indian singer Shalmali Kholgade, singer Suzanne D’Mello and other notable performers will be performing at the event. This year, the festival plans to showcase 50 films, from a range of genres.

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Films like Angry Indian Goddesses, A Girl in the River and Parched will be shown this year. Rishi KapoorΒ will beΒ receiving an Excellence in Cinema award and Vidya Balan is the official festival ambassador. It is exciting to see the female expression of art finally get recognised!