Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma were also present at the opening ceremony.
Iranian director Asghar Farhidi's "Nader and Simin: A separation" would be the opening movie of the fest. It is the first Iranian movie to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The festival will screen 15 films, including some rare classics of the silent era at a makeshift tent giving a nostalgic feel to film buffs of how silent movies were screened a century ago.
With 'Africa Calling' as the focus, the eight-day festival will witness the participation of 189 celluloid ventures from 60 countries, including 15 movies from the African continent.
The closing film of the fest will be Tanvir Mokammel's latest documentary, "Japani Bodhu" (The Japanese Wife) -- based on the exceptional story of Hariprobha Basu Mallik, who married a Japanese entrepreneur Wemon Takeda, and travelled to Tokyo in 1912.
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