Big B Honoured With Asian Film Cultural Award

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 15:37

Bollywood super star, Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Asian Film Cultural Award in recognition to his four decades of contribution to the Indian cinema.

The award was presented by Kiran Shantaram, Chairman of Asian Film Foundation while noted Bollywood filmmaker Amitabh Bachchan at the gala ceremony.

"I look upon my career of 40 years in this wonderful industry as great opportunity to be able to represent my creativity and my art if it can be called so, more importantly to project our cinema to other parts of the world and I feel very honoured to be here for an organisation that conducts these activities in order that rest of the world comes to learn more about our culture and films," said Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan, fondly addressed as the Big B has won numerous awards including three National Film Awards and a dozen of Filmfare Awards. He holds the record for most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards.