The Creme de la Creme of South India's celluloid world would descend here to celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema, commencing from tomorrow, during which the industry would honour its legends.
The four-day event promises all the glitz and fanfare to cine lovers as organisers have lined up glimpses from a host of movies right from the silent movie era to present day technology driven productions.
The mega event celebrating the journey of 100 years will also be featuring programms under the theme 'taking Indian cinema to the next 100 years.'
A galaxy of stars from the Hindi film industry will also be joining their counterparts from the four southern states, C Kalyan, President of the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, which is organising the extravaganza along with the Tamil Nadu government, told PTI.
Actor and Union Minister Chiranjeevi, along with members of Telugu film fraternity will participate besides Malayalam film icons Mohan Lal and Mammootty.
From Karnataka, Ambareesh, actor-turned-politician Shivaraj Kumar are also expected.
Commemorating the event, classical movies in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada are being screened since September 16 across various theatres and in parks in city, for which the organisers had made arrangements.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will inaugurate the celebrations at 4 pm at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium. She will felicitate awardees from the Tamil film industry.
She has sanctioned Rs 10 crore for staging the event and make it a memorable one for the film industry and people.
President Pranab Mukherjee will preside over the valedictory on Septmber 24 and witness a grand gala cultural performance rendered by cine stars of south celluloid world.
