Monday, July 16, 2007

Shah Rukh Khan's statue to be unveiled in Paris


There's new honour for Shah Rukh Khan in the offing.

The Bollywood Badshah will be the first Indian actor to find a place at the French Graven Museum in Paris. A statue of the actor is set to be installed at the museum soon.

SRK admitted that he felt honoured. He is already cast in wax and standing at Madame Tussauds in London along with other Bollywood actors like Amitabh and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

And among his other recent honours is the Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government for his prolific career and his contribution to the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema .

The French Graven Museum has statues of Salman Rushdie and writer and social activist Mahashweta Devi.

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