Bollywood legend to visit SA
2002-04-03 10:53
Johannesburg - Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan will arrive in South Africa next week to promote his latest film, Aankhen, film producer Anant Singh announced on Tuesday.
Bachchan will be accompanied by the producer of Aankhen, Gaurang
Doshi.
Singh said Bachchan will attend the premiere of Aankhen in
Durban and will also visit Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Aankhen will have its world premiere at the Indian International
Film Academy Awards in Malaysia on Friday.
Bachchan was voted the Greatest Star of Stage and Screen of the
Millennium ahead of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Alec Guiness in a BBC news poll in 1999.
Singh said he was delighted that Bachchan accepted the
invitation to visit South Africa to promote Aankhen.
- SAPA