Bollywood actors like Ranbir Kapoor and Shabana Azmi cheered to support the physically challenged participants and senior citizens as the Wheelchair Event and the Senior Citizens' Run was flagged off here Sunday during the ninth edition of Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2012.

As many as 1,800 people participated in the Senior Citizens' Run and 200 in the Wheelchair Event which started from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in south Mumbai and will culminate after covering a distance of 4.3 km near Metro Cinema.