To celebrate Guru Dutt’s 100th birth centenary, there was a panel discussion paying tribute to him and his unparalleled contribution to Indian cinema, followed by a star-studded premiere of his iconic film Pyaasa (4K restored version with subtitles). The panelists were Javed Akhtar, Hansal Mehta, Sudhir Mishra and R. Balki. 

The evening also saw the presence of renowned film personalities including Shabana Azmi, Sriram Raghavan, Anubhav Sinha, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Madhur Bhandarkar, Anand L. Rai, Divya Dutta, Rajat Kapoor, Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Agnihotri, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Vipul Shah, Shefali Shah, Akshay Oberoi, Zahan Kapoor, Ishwak Singh, Rituparna Sengupta, Tanuja Chandra, Taha Shah, and many more.