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Shah Rukh Khan Charms Locarno Crowd As He Talks Stardom, Brad Pitt & Jackie Chan Friendship: “He Promised To Open A Chinese Restaurant With Me”


Shah Rukh Khan was handed a career achievement award at the festival on Sunday.

Facing a capacity crowd at Locarno’s venerable Gran Rex cinema, SRK accepted the adulation and declarations of love with the gracious fan-friendliness that has made him beloved for 35 years. Ranging over the hits and misses of his career, King Khan – as he is popularly known – described his own fandom for Hong Kong action star and director Jackie Chan. The last question came from two young women who had met at an Indian dance class in Germany and arrived wearing saris, one carrying a meticulously rendered oil painting she had made of a scene from Devdas.

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