Rakhi Sawant to lead FIA’s I-Day festival

CHICAGO, IL – The Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) will start the season of the festivities in the Midwest for India’s 70th Independence Day on August 7 with Bollywood’s famous star Rakhi Sawant.

Beginning at 2 pm, the event is being held at DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 Manchester Road, Wheaton, IL 60187.

“Within a week, since several events are scheduled related to the Indian Independence Day, we decided not to create any conflict with other programs and hold our festival a week earlier,” said Sunil Shah, FIA founder-president.

“FIA believes in working together.”

FIA’s event will be free of charge, declared Dhitu Bhagwakar, FIA’s current president. Despite bringing Rakhi Sawant and a renowned musical group of Bollywood, ‘Seven Star,’ he said, “we don’t want to charge general public a single penny.”

FIA is immensely thankful to its donors and sponsors for supporting this expensive project, according to Onkar Singh Sangha, one of the founding presidents.

Rakhi Sawant is one of the celebrated Bollywood film and television actresses, a dancer, model, and television talk show host, who has appeared in many Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Tamil movies.

She was one of the finalists of Bigg Boss reality show. She has also exhibited her interest in Indian politics. Her performances in Bollywood films Joru Ka Ghulam, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain and Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke were greatly admired.

A lot of children’s rides have been arranged along with several food stalls and ethnic vendors.

For more information, and sponsorship, please call Sunil Shah at 847-309-4462 or Dhitu Bhagwakar at 847-340-1120.