The evening begun with dance performances by Resham Tipnis, Kranti Redkar and Siddarth Jadhav before Y. C. Pawar, retired joint commissioner of Police unveiled the first look. Present on the occasion were writer-director Mahesh Manjrekar, producer Arun Rangachari, Satish Kaushik, Seema Biswas, Siddharth Jadhav, Ankush Chaudhary, Karan Patel, script writer and playwright Jayant Pawar, and others. Thousands of mill workers were also present.
Y. C. Pawar spoke about his experience during the strike in 1982. Datta Iswalkar, leader of the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti and few others spoke about the troubled times that the mill workers have faced since then.
