Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who was conferred the ‘Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters’ title by the French government on Sunday, admitted that he did not know he was popular in France.
“I came to know that people in UK knew me after I travelled there. But I never knew people in France also knew about me,” Shah Rukh Khan said on Sunday night. “I am proud we have taken our culture and identity to France through the medium of our films,” the superstar said.
The title was conferred to Khan by Jerome Bonnafont, French Ambassador in India, at the inaugural ceremony of a four-day French film festival.
