Festive season begins in Bollywood as Alia, Kiara, Shraddha and others attend Manish Malhotra's Diwali bash

Mumbai

All roads on Tuesday led to Manish Malhotra's home as Bollywood stars dressed in their finest traditional attire attended the designer's Diwali bash. From Alia Bhatt to Kiara Advani to Shahid Kapoor to Rekha to Kartik Aaryan- Bollywood's who's who truned up at the bash which officially kickstarted the festive season in tinseltown. 

The young brigade of stars- Ananya Panday, Janhvi Kapoor, Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor and Vedang Raina posed on the red carpet alongside legends like Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Kajol and Shilpa Shetty.  

There were several Bollywood couples in attendance at the bash including Tamannaah Bhatia and Vijay Verma, Shahid Kapoor and Mira Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani, Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal and Riteish Deshmukh and wife Genelia Deshmukh. 

Alia Bhatt walked in with her sister Shaheen. Kajol made a solo entry just like Diana Penty, Kriti Sanon and Rekha. Shraddha Kapoor, the biggest star at the box office right now, looked gorgeous in a silver saree. Disha Patani also chose a similar saree like Shraddha for the do-but in shades of gold. 

Bride-to-be Sobhita Dhulipala took some time off from her wedding festivities and attended the bash minus her fiance Naga Chaitanya. Gauri Khan made a late entry in a black saree. 

Diwali will see the clash of two big-budget, multi-starrer films at the box office. Anees Bazmee's Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, featuring Kartik Aaryan, Triptii Dimri, Vidya Balan and Madhuri Dixit will be released the same day as Rohit Shetty's Singham 3 starring Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor and Tiger Shroff.