The event was the opening day of the 16th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival. As every year many Bollywood personalities attended the opening of the festival. Bollywood personalities such as Kalki Koechilin, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kiran Rao, Ayan Mukherji, Anurag Kashyap, Tara Sharma, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor, Subhash Ghai, Huma Qureshi, Deepika Padukone and many were here spotted at the red carpet.