Bollywood star honoured with Tussauds waxwork

04/04/2007 15:59

LONDON (Reuters) - Indian superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan posed for photographers with his life-like double on Tuesday at the unveiling of his effigy at London’s Madame Tussauds waxworks.

The 41-year-old heartthrob dedicated the model to his mother, who always believed her son would be honoured in the waxwork hall of fame.

"Like all mums, my mum felt that I would be in Madame Tussauds one day," Khan told Reuters in an interview at the venue.

"She thought I was very good-looking, and she thought that it was enough criteria to get to be here. But I wish she was alive, for her it would have been very important.

"I never visited Madame Tussauds, because somewhere deep inside my heart I felt I would come here when my wax work was here. So it is a cherished dream for my mum and for me and it has been fulfilled."

The actor, believed to be Bollywood’s highest-paid performer with a huge Indian fan base, joins screen stars like Hollywood ’A’-listers Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie at Madame Tussauds, but he was unsure if he would be working with them for real.

"It is not my wish to go to Hollywood, it has to be the wish of Hollywood to decide," he said, when asked if it was his ambition to break into the U.S. film market. Few Asian stars have managed to appeal to audiences in both regions.

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(Hollywood) are bigger than us, they are the bosses," added Khan. "So unless they want to employ us, we are nobody to be sending our resume there and hoping we get a job. But I am very, very happy doing what I do."

Khan was the third Bollywood star to appear at Madame Tussauds, where Aishwarya Rai and Amitabh Bachchan also figure.

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