Mumbai, Dec 8 (ANI): Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with Asian Film Cultural Award in recognition for his 40 years of contribution to Indian cinema as well as for taking it to great heights all over the world.
The award was presented by Kiran Shantaram, Chairman of the Asian Film Foundation at the gala ceremony organised here on Monday.
"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 that, but 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, our films and for us to learn a little about their as well," Bachchan said in his thanks giving speech.
He said India has the potential of becoming the largest export earner through its celluloid productions.
"I have always been motivated by the fact that if the United States of America can claim to be through their cinema, the second largest export earner for itself after aeroplanes then why can't India which produces the largest number of films in the world be anywhere near that figure. And I do believe that we have the potential and the talent to proceed in a direction where we can achieve this," he added.
He also commended the integrating force of Indian cinema.
"When we buy tickets to go to see a film we never ask whether the person sitting next to me is a Hindu or a Muslim or Sikh or a Christian but we laugh at the same jokes, we sing the same song, we cry the same emotions. I think that perhaps this cinema house is the greatest example of integration that you can find anywhere in the world or indeed anywhere in the country," he said.
The Asian Film Festival which projects films from Asian countries aims to link all the fraternities of Asian film fraternities and promote their cinemas. (ANI)
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