Legendary Indian cricketer Kapil Dev has been invited to be the guest of honour at the Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2022 (IFFM).

• He will be attending the festival to celebrate Kabir Khan's directorial film '83', which traces the journey of the Indian team-led by Kapil Dev that won the 1983 World Cup. 
• The film festival will be held both in-person and virtually in the Melbourne from August 12-20, 2022. It was held virtually in 2020 and 2021. In 2019, the festival was hosted by the likes of Tabu, Shahrukh Khan, Karan Johar, Vijay Sethupathi, Zoya Akhtar among others.