The 17th annual New York Indian Film Festival kicked off on Sunday, April 30th with an opening night red carpet at the Village East Cinemas (189 2nd Avenue @ 12th Street). Filmmakers and actors, who are flying in from all over the world, walked the red carpet and interacted with the media.

Here is the list of celebrities who will add glam and glitter to the opening night red carpet:

Alankrita Shrivastava, Aahana Kumra, Gazal Dhaliwal - LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA
Aftab Asghar - AMBER
Aasmaan Bhardwaj - THE THIEF
Amit Agarwal, Shalini Jalan - FAREWELL GODDESS
Dhananjay Bhawalekar, Sawani Arjun - GYPSY
Lenin Bharathi - WESTERN GHATS
Anshuman Sharma, Hemanshu Agnihotri - STATION
Hesh Sarmalkar - BUBBLES, FLIGHT OF HOPE
Ian McDonald - OM OLD MAN
Indira Somani - LIFE ON THE GANGES
Kaela Hill, Jesse Newman, Bala Skandan - URBAN NRITTA
Kawa Hatef, Aditi Bhagwat - AARSA
Maahir Khan - ALMOST
Manjari Makijany, Carina Chavda - I SEE YOU
Maya Mirchandani - WEAPONS OF WAR: WOMEN OF BASTAR
Mayank Bhatter - ARRANGED
Meenu Gaur - JEEWAN HAATHI
Mehreen Jabbar - LALA BEGUM
Amit Desai - WRONG SIDE RAJU
Onir, Ashish Bisht - SHAB
Pia Shah - WATERBABY
Rahul Bose - POORNA
Rippin Sindher, Gurinder Sindher - THE HIDEOUT
Siraj Huda - VEGAS
Sandeep Mohan - SHREELANCER
Sudhish Kamath - SIDE A SIDE B
Sagar Sadhwani, Siddhi Pujara - ONE GOAT'S MERCY PETITION
Varun Shah - YOU ARE MY SUNDAY
Vinay Pujara - FLIGHT OF HOPE