The famous Hindi film actress Kareena Kapoor is the special guest at the launch of 10th Bengaluru International Film Festival today in front of Vidhana Soudha at 5.30 pm. The Kannada cinema industry popular actress Radhika Pandit will be Tali girl for the inauguration of the festival.

At the East end of Vidhana Soudha, the 10th BIFFE will be inaugurated by Karnataka chief minister that is very proud of 200 films in eight days of national and international standards.

The concept for this 10th year of BIFFE is ‘Human Rights and social justice’. Legislative Assembly speaker KB Koliwad, Legislative council chairman D H Shankar Murthy, information minister Roshan Baig, Bollywood director Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra, Irani films director Fateme Motmed Arya, Oscar winning director Marc Bashet will be on the dais.

Dr Shivarajakumar, Kichcha Sudeep and Darshan are special invitees to the event. At Rajajinagar Orion Hall in 11 screens, at Dr Raj Bhavan in Artists Association the screening are scheduled from Friday.

At Banquet Hall Vidhana Soudha Italian film ‘It’s the law’ is the opening film screening at 7.45 pm today.