Bollywood Hunk Will Be In Malacca To Receive AwardMartin Carvalho
The Star Online
22nd October 2008
Summary
Bollywood heartthrob Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed his acceptance of the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM) award which carries the title of Datuk from Malacca Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob next month.
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Mohd Ali was asked to comment on whether the state had any intention of retracting the award following protest from several quarters including the issue being raised in Parliament.
“No, there is no intention of retracting the award. How can you give something to a person and later ask it back.
“That’s called being a buruk siku (a Malay idiom to describe one who has given something but later asks for its return),” he said.
He also defended the state’s decision to confer a Datukship on the actor, saying that he (Shah Rukh) had helped promote Malacca to an international audience through the film One 2 Ka 4 and the song Don on one of his CDs.
"If the state wanted to get this sort of publicity on CNN, it would have to pay millions" he said, adding that the move to confer the award on the actor would prompt him to shoot more films here.
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