The Indian Visions Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC kicked off its film festival program with a screening of Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On!!, an inspirational film about friendship and dreams set against the backdrop of rock music. Abhishek Kapoor was presented with The Official Opening Night Selection Award at the reception following his film’s screening. He interacted with audience members at the reception.

Other celebrity guests who attended the festival and who interacted with audiences included Brahmanand Singh (Pancham Unmixed), Spandan Banerjee (The Fiction and Beware Dogs), Ashish Avikunthak (Nirakar Chhaya/Shadows Formless and Antaral/End Note), Mona Kumar (Between Two Worlds), Leena Jayaswal and Indira Somani (Crossing Lines) and Harjant Gill (Milind Soman Made Me Gay).