New Delhi: Bollywood Baadshah, Shahrukh Khan would inaugurate the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2007 starting on November 23 in Goa.

Karuna, Shahrukh’s spokesperson told, “Yes, Shahrukh Khan has accepted the invitation to inaugurate the ten day long festival.”

The occasion will witness best of cinema from India as well as overseas. It would be started with the far-famed Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu’s film “Four Months, Three Weeks and Two days,” which already won the esteemed Golden Palm prize at Cannes early this year.

Karuna, on behalf of SRK, who is presently out of the country, said, “Shahrukh is pleased to do the honour on behalf of the film industry.”

In the meantime, Neelam Kapur, Director of the film festival, told that renowned Spanish film director Carlos Saura’s critically-acclaimed movie 'Fados' will be the finishing movie at the festival.

She also said that the film festival will also pay a mark of respect to a few well-known film celebrities that includes Swedish master Ingmar Bergman who passed away this year. He made classics including 'Smiles of a Summer Night', 'The Seventh Seal', 'Wild Strawberries' and 'The Magician'.

“To honour renowned Bengali filmmaker Tapan Sinha, the festival will showcase a special collection of his films,” Neelam said.