Bollywood star Aamir Khan and Oscar nominee Emily Blunt will be honored at the opening night of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival this week, alongside previously announced honouree, Egyptian actor Mona Zaki.
Khan and Blunt will also participate in the festival’s starry ‘In Conversation With’ strand, for which Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield and Ranbir Kapoor are among the speakers to have already been announced.
India’s Khan is one his country’s most successful actors and filmmakers with a string of hit films under his belt including the 2016 female wrestling drama Dangal, which remains one of the highest grossing films in the territory to this day.
Other notable credits include hits with Ghajini, 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3, PK and 2002 Oscar-nominee Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India.
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