Tashkent, September 28: The International Tashkent Film Festival ‘The Silk Road Pearl’ hosted by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev opened to a rousing welcome at a glittering ceremony in Tashkent today. Noted Bollywood celebrities like Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Rahul Mittra, Boman Irani, Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Rahul Rawail, Anurag Basu, Huma Qureshi, Gulshan Grover, Javed Jaffery, Sanjay Gupta, Neeraj Pathak, Deepak Tijori, Kunal Kapoor, Dino Morea, Jasbir Jassi, Ritu Berry, apart from other select Hollywood & international stars like Steven Seagal, Timur Bikmambetov, Rob Minkoff, Gerard Depardie and others were honoured at the festival.
The theme of this edition of the festival is “Peace, Enlightenment and Progress” with participation from 15 countries including India, Italy, Russia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Tajikistan and Turkey, among others. Sanjay Gupta’s Mumbai Saga, Anurag Basu’s Ludo & Rahul Mittra’s Sanjay Dutt starrer Torbaaz, which was shot in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, will be screened at this festival.
