UNESCO Award for Shahrukh Khan

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan has been conferred with a special award at the 20th UNESCO Awards held at Dusseldorf over the weekend.

Expressing his delight at receiving the award, Shahrukh tweeted, "The UNESCO award is called Pyramide con Marni and I am super excited cos education for kids is most dear cause to me."

Leading names who attended the function included Mikhail Gorbachev, Noami Campbell and Ute Ohoven.

Shahrukh was also delighted to meet Jet Li at the function and tweeted that his son Aryan would be thrilled to hear of his interaction with the Hollywood action hero.

Source: Medindia