Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who received an honorary doctorate degree in arts and culture from Britain’s University of Bedfordshire, will be receiving his second honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The Indian star will deliver a lecture at the University on October 15.
The same university had conferred an honorary degree of the doctor of science to ‘Bharat Ratna’ Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Some of the other film personalities to be conferred the honorary doctorate are Amitabh Bachchan, Lata Mangeshkar, Sharmila Tagore, Akshay Kumar and AR Rahman.
Statement from ‘The University of Edinburgh’
Shah Rukh Khan is one of the most influential actors in the world, having appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films.
He has received 14 Filmfare Awards, honouring excellence in the Hindi language film industry and has more than 15 million Twitter followers.
He was awarded one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Shri, in 2005.
Edinburgh and India
The University has been linked with India for nearly 250 years. Professor William Robertson, Edinburgh’s Principal from 1762 to 1793 and a noted Enlightenment thinker, wrote one of the earliest European texts to focus on India – An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India.
Edinburgh’s first Indian student graduated in 1876 and by the 1920s its Indian student population was greater than that of any other UK University.
The University of Edinburgh’s India Institute and its India Liaison Office in Mumbai seek to extend the University’s relationship with India by encouraging research collaborations and academic exchanges.
“The University of Edinburgh has very strong ties with India and I am delighted that we are able to welcome one of the most outstanding stars of world cinema.” said Professor Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh Senior Vice-Principal.
A very proud movement for all srk admirers. Congrats the king. More than Box office records, srk has achieved everything and he truly deserved all those things which are worth more than billions of box office records.
Srk isn’t made for making box office records. He is made for just something else which no one else can imagine of. He is a given gift by god to this world. The world is so proud to have shahrukh khan the human on the earth. He has made the country proud by his achievements except for films and box office records. He is truly a massiha of India. He has become a global icon not just for nothing. He has brain, talent, sharp mind, everything which separates him apart from all others. I am really proud to be srkian.
For those Criminal fans including @Hrithik, @Navin who are talking about airport controversy.
Now SRK will enter US automatically without waiting in line at airporteven, through special VIP ticket, offered by US bit.ly/1OSo3ca , whereas our criminal Salman still needs court’s permission first to go US and outside India, Shamelessly! LMAO, ROFL! http://t.co/MP9iF8WFrl .
SRK & Big B are the only Indian actors who longer have to stand in line at US airport. People tried to troll SRK but SRK/US trolled them by giving such offers & honours like Doctorate every time.
@Indicine : btw post about this article on your site, if possible. thanks :)
@rohitene,very insecure
Salman’s HGOTY-
1.MPK—-family member leading movie(especially Alok Nath as you can add even BIGB in Father role)
2.Sajan(sanjay dutt leading,he acted better than statue salman)—-salman in special aplearnce
3.HAHK—-complete family member movie+madhuri(as she paid higher than sallu)
4.HSSH—-saif+mohnish acted better than salman(salman in special appearance)
5.No Entry(not at all a salman film but insecure opportunist fans added into the list)
6.Dabangg(solo)
7.Bodyguard(solo)—-south remake
8.ETT(solo)
According to your logic,salman has —-3 solo,4 special apperance hgoty
But according to me,he has 5 solo,and 2 multistarrer,1 (no entry) is not at all his film.
SRK’s HGOTY:-
1.DDLJ(solo)
2.KKHH(solo ,but opportunist fans are adding their flopstar’s name forcibly)
3.Devdas(solo)
4.Veer Zara(Big B as Father so His stardom never considered)
5.OSO(solo,but one song can’t make film hit if so then salaam-e-ishq would be at least get Hit verdict,lallu logic sucks big time)
So KING KHAN has 5 HGOTY of HIS OWN.
KING KHAN has—-11 BB according to new boi(soon VZ will be too a BB)
salman has—-11 bb (4 are south remake,many of them are pure multistarrer including bb)
KING KHAN(23 YEARS)>>>>>salman(27 years), considering BB+HGOTY.
Note: all data’s are from BoxofficeIndia.com(recent update).we can’t help salman if they will tell they’re not believing boi like chameleon),ROFL.
ha ha ha ha ,hogtd?????which kind of logic this?????it also required to measure stardom?????really?????
Then 90’s biggest logtd(lowest grosser of the year)—-nischay(salman khan leading film),ROFL.
and last decade’s mutiplex era release biggest disaster—-marigold(as YLHJK is a flop only)
Salman ‘s total success—-21
flops—-30
Disaster—-5-6
So in normal mode,total succes>>>>>>>total failures,so salman is a flopstar.
SO KING KHAN’S STATUS—-is a HIT/BB STAR.and only ACTOR WHO has SUCCESS more than failures.
for amir khan,success(11 hit)<>>salman/amir(in 27-28 years even entered the industry through PAPA)
Even KING KHAN is THE 2ND RICHEST ACTOR OF THE WORLD.while no one knows which no. acquired by salman+amir,ROFL.
Only thing decade struggler papa’s boy salman/amit fans know one thing hgoty,started to end.don’t know what achievements salman+amir has besides having only this thing according to their own fan.
KING KHAN RULES BOLLYWOOD.
@hrithik,it’s not US,IT’S on earth,DARR,MOHANBATEIN are BLOCKBUSTERS according to boxofficeIndia.com not in bakrapur where you lives,so kindly accept it,or go to your favourite bhojpur ,lol.
And @IAMAKN is known one man army here,and it’s you who is known as syed ahmed nanga khan.so better identify your chameleon personality and get vanish from here.
And before that many US officers along with APJ ABDUL KALAM too checked airport due to Muslim names.what’ SSO wrong with that?did your salman khan went to USA that time when there was huge check up was occuring?I know he wasn’t ,he always in India or hardly at Dubai beyond that he never try to go up there as no one knew him there even in Dubai,ROFL.
@aunt(4:06,4:09),make sensible comments then post,otherwise people will skip over your comment that I do and most of the peoples does here,ROFL.
@David Akki have 13 disasters compare to 3 disasters of Salman. And your queen have an Epic disaster in YLJK with 40 lakhs lifetime collections. Salman had flops and disasters so what ? He has maximum number of 100 grossers, max number of BB, Max number of HGOTY and 2 Highest Grosser of the Decade what your king kong got which can beat this ?? Again a blind hatred comment but no relation to facts !!!!!! Lol
@David : Actually are jealous of Salman that despite not so talented he is among Top 3 that is the real power. Imagine if he had been more talented your king would have been non existent !!!!!!!!!!!! Love him or Hate him but cannot ignore him !!!!!!!!!!!
@I am AKN : I repeat again it is better not to get visa than getting visa and humiliated at Airports !!!!! Salman foreign ban is known to everyone as it is Law and constitution that any under trial is not allowed to travel until verdict comes out (Supreme court verdict) !!!!!!!!!! But your so called Global Star is shamed at foreign Airport twice !!!!!!!!!!! Lol
@sss : So you are accepting HNY never crossed 200 crs and its opening was less than 40 crs (as per same BOI) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Certified retard !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@hrithik,what’s big deal?one more change has to be occurred VZ will be A BLOCKBUSTER.so after that it’ll not be difficult for me to believe for them.may be they are not so good at tracking producer’s number sometimes but for verdicts I have to support them.though now a days it’s very diffict to track exact box office figures,it only possible if peoples like amir can pay to boi to show exact figure,WE don’t need to pay,and that means salman too manipulated (kick—-211(boi),kick—-233cr(producer),please also talk about this manipulation,too,ROFL.so it’s safe to follow producer’s figure and boi’ S verdicts.
Though it’s not hard for me to believe HNY’S collection was 188cr (all versions) and 39 CR as the opening day,yeah we can accept that.and who can bigger cerfied moron than you who is saying now what’s boxofficeIndia????,ROFL.
talenteds and salman?????, rofl.he existed till now due to rajshri’ a family movies to create a good image at that time later south remake saved his whole career,ROFL.and don’t say if salman would be more talented what’ll happen!!!!!in that case WE can too say like if KING KHAN would have do south remake, masala films one after another,then HE would have 40 BLOCKBUSTERS and would have thrown salman+amir out of Bollywood likewise WE too can predict better than you.
If To be checked at airport for people’s security reason is shameful incident for you,then why don’t you feel shame from of the behalf of your idol committed crimes like ran over cruzer over innocent peoples,killing chikara,black bucks,beating women being a man(though people till not have known),ROFL.
And being banned to get outside India is bigger shame than just a security check up that even salman,amir too faced (which salman committed in a video that I can shoe you),even APJ ABDUL KALAM too checked that means HE also turned to be a shame ?????think before you speak because you too are a Muslim so don’t laugh at your community in otherwise your community people will beat you like a road side dog.and because of why KING KHAN awaited at airport ,you created hungama to bring down HIS image that shows how much PEOPLE ALL OVER TGE WORLD cares about HIS IMAGE.and salman himself said awaited there during check up which couldn’t become a news,why?????because he is unknown everywhere,no one even cares where he got detained,where he got banned.why?????that beces a big news because KING SRK represents INDIA and salman represents criminals,no one cares about your 2010 born masala remake non actor,ROFL.
@fan pk : I can understand where is mehnat is spend. SRK does mujr@s at NRI weddings to earn money. So give this gyaan to your idol not to us, even Sanju Baba once blasted your queen (without naming him) for doing such cheap things to earn money !!!!!!! So it is SRK who always and still running behind money and not Salman.
Sorry, my above reply was to @hrithik.
@Awara kangal nanga:
ha ha ha ha. We all know whose career destroyed by whom. Are you talking about that footpathi bhikhari whom Salman’s family feed and gave place to live? And megastar aamir khan gave made his career by rejecting the most overrated crap darr? Get a life you 2 RS bhikhari. Everyone knows haklu is nothing by fish without water if aamir and Salman had not made his career.so srk’s career is made by aamir, Salman, yrf, dharma, etc. Dont even dare to compare your 2 Ko ka star with megastars Aamir khan’s ND Salman.
@sss : Late APJ Kalam Sir was checked and SRK was detained for hours. That is the difference. Check is regular routine for all visitors but getting detained for hours is an epic shame. But mechanics like you will never know this difference !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@hrithik,checking/detained are almost similar,after all no security allows freely any celebrity/VIP with out even a bit checking,so if also differentiate too,I’m showing who also got detained in airport obviously bigger persobality than your bhojpuri star,
Nita Ambani—-detained along with KING SRK.
Irfan Khan—-a global superstar detained at us airport gone with a purpose of receiving Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.
Not only them even John Abraham,Neil nitin mukesh,Kabir khan,mammoty
http://movies.ndtv.com/photos/prominent-indians-detained-at-us-airports-12779/slide/3
And all are drained during same period 2008-2009 where there was strictness of check up was there,during which time salamn/amir never had gone there,rofl.
And later US apologize for the 2 LEGENDS—-APJ ABDUL KALAM SIR,KING SRK.
http://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Shah-Rukh-Khans-detention-US-apologises-India-talks-tough/articleshow/12648019.cms
Now tell what such a big shame even after US apologize to KING KHAN.which cheapest classless peoples made big issue.not only that even hollywood relative star Irfan khan too detained,what about that?????
why you didn’t made fun of him?because your hatred,jealousy couldn’t get controlled after seeing one after another success of KING KHAN,ROFL.such a simple thing also couldn’t be reached to your illiterate school drop out bhojpuri MIND,ROFL.
And even KING SRK always invited to Royal weddings sobthat newly wedded couple can get HIS BLESSINGS along with to see HIM entertaining live and HE also invited by one actir from the I dustry to his son’s wedding s who mostly worked with salamn khan in free of charges.and HE also charges at Royal wedding because HE also gives highest charity in bollywood.
http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/charity-shahrukh-donated-25-cr-salmans-being-human-donated-11-cr/
So it’s HIS way to entertain people and a way to help poors.but at least better than doing sins like your idol drunk and driving over peoples,killing chikara and black bucks,beating woman,heriones,threatienimg media,peoples which is actually high class and sacred,respectful act for you ,isn’t it bhojpuri?????hypocrisy,double standard,jealousy, at it’s peak,ROFL.
And what more remained near you need to get a hard slap everytime from WE SRKIANS,kindly explain,ROFL.and please teach your idol how to speak English with out stopping and adding Hindi words in a press conference/interview,also in writing Proper English in tweets with out adding Hindi words ,then think about any Indian degree for your bhai,as to get this type of Honours you should have an proper interactive power which you peoples actually don’t like your star,so stop being jealous kiddo.
@rew1,oh really whatever KING KHAN is only due to YRF/DP?????then take look below
KING KHAN’S SUCCESS WITH OUT YRF/DP
DEEWANA—-HIT
BAAZIGAR—-SUPER HIT
KHNH—-HIT
KA—-BB
RAM JAANE—-HIT
PARDES—-SUPER HIT
YES BOSS—-HIT
DEVDAS—-SUPER HIT
CHALTE CHALTE—-HIT
MHN—-SUPER HIT
DON—-HIT
OSO—-BB
RA ONE—-HIT
DON2—-HIT
CE—-ATBB
HNY—-SUPER HIT
TOTAL SUCCESS WITH OUT YRF/DP=16
TOTAL SUCCESS WITH YRF/DP=14
TOTAL SUCCESS OF YRF/DP WITH KING KHAN—-14
TOTAL SUCCESS OF YRF/DP WITH OUT KING KHAN—-7-8
NOW THIS THING CLEARED—-KING KHAN MADE YRF/DP.
KING KHAN’S SUCCESS WITH OUT YRF+DP=16>>>>>>amir’s lifetime epic 11 success and almost equals to salman’s total success 20-21.
THIS TELLS KING SRK IS THE 1ST KHAN(due to achieve more even enters 3 years later in the industry with out any filmy papa like salmir and gave least flops in the industry and CONSISTENTLY RULED BOLLYWOOD IN ALL DECADE IN DOMESTIC,OVERSEAS,WW).
TOTAL BLOCKBUSTERS OF KING KHAN—-11-12(HIGHEST CLASSICS)
total blockbusters of salman khan—-11(2 side appearance)(most of them are masala genre)
amir khan—-5(1 brand franchise multustarrer,most of them are masala)
Now tell WHO IS THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD?????
KING KHAN RULES BOLLYWOOD.