News Entertainment Bollywood Amitabh-Jaya, SRK, Kamal Haasan inaugurate 19th KIFF (view pics)

Amitabh-Jaya, SRK, Kamal Haasan inaugurate 19th KIFF (view pics)

Kolkata: Gems of Indian cinema Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Mithun Chakraborty and Kamal Haasan came together Sunday with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to inaugurate the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival



The stage transformed itself with posters, black and white film reels, light reflectors, trolleys as 100 dancers, including children, took to the stage with cult songs from Hindi and Bengali films playing in the background.

Divided into three segments, the choreography spanned across landmark moments in Indian cinema beginning with the first full-length feature film "Raja Harishchandra" in 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke.

The first scene of the act featured a shooting scene in the old days using black-and-white silhouettes.

The entire journey was jazzed up with Chinese lion dancers prancing around on the stage.