Raghav Mathur, the Toronto-born, Calgary-raised Bhangra dance king will headline Scotland's biggest multi-cultural event to be held at Edinburgh's Pilrig Park next month.

Raghav, whose family hails from India, is expected to be the main crowd-puller at the

The troupe is famous for their appearances in box office hits like East is East, Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.

Organizers expect more than 40,000 people at the event to be staged between Sept 2 and Sept 4.

In addition to the headliners, the show will also feature a Rajasthani brass band, with their own sword-swallowing fakir, a Scottish-South Asian choir performing poetry from Bengal's Rabindranath Tagore and giant puppets inspired by mythology and folk traditions from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, China and Vietnam.

But the main act, according to local media reports is the show by the foot-stomping Bhangra king Raghav.