Next month's Toronto International Film Festival, led by Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna director Karan Johar, will include interviews with some of the stars of the film, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukherji and Amitabh Bachchan.

Also expected at the feastival is John Abraham whose Kabul Express will premiere at the festival.

Mira Nair's Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will also premiere at the film festival.

The event which will take place from September 7 to 16 will also draw a few Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Sigourney Weaver and Gwyneth Paltrow, as well as British film star Jude Law.

Nair, whose Monsoon Wedding had its North American premiere at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, will have her new film in the Special Presentation section.

The film will then screen in New York on November 1 at the inauguration of the annual film festival hosted by the Indo-American Arts Council.

In March it will be released through Fox Searchlight.

This year the 31st edition of the Toronto festival - which will screen 352 feature films, documentaries and shorts - has the largest number of films from people of Indian origin to date.