B-Town all praises for Israel PM Netanyahu
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Tinsel Town celebs who attended the "Shalom Bollywood" event held in Mumbai on Thursday evening were all praises for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Jan 19, 2018 05:07 IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Tinsel Town celebs who attended the "Shalom Bollywood" event held in Mumbai on Thursday evening were all praises for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Post the event, Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar took to Twitter to share his experience of meeting Netanyahu.
"A complete honour and privilege to meet with the honourable Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Such a wonderful evening with friends of the fraternity," he tweeted.
The similar sentiment was echoed by actor Vivek Oberoi and filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar.
It was great attending presentation on history, culture and geodiversity of #Isarel along with film fraternity and had a pleasure interacting with Hon. PM of #Israel @netanyahu and the first lady.?? #ShalomBollywood #Mumbai pic.twitter.com/0aRwQQRD3M
— Madhur Bhandarkar (@imbhandarkar) January 18, 2018
What an incredible pleasure it was meeting you sir! You are an amazing ambassador for Israel, you won our hearts today! Looking fwd to visiting your beautiful country and experiencing the rich Israeli culture very soon! @netanyahu @IsraeliPM #NetanyahuInIndia pic.twitter.com/7Rff4JLpaK
— Vivek Anand Oberoi (@vivek_oberoi) January 18, 2018
The Israeli PM and his wife, Sara Netanyahu participated in the event that aims at exploring business opportunities for Indian filmmakers in Israel, along with select members of the film fraternity and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Post the event, Netanyahu posted a selfie with the B-Town celebs and his wife, and captioned it to be the "best selfie" yet.
Will my Bollywood selfie beat @TheEllenShow Hollywood selfie at the Oscars? @SrBachchan @juniorbachchan @rajcheerfull @imbhandarkar @vivek_oberoi @ pic.twitter.com/v1r0GIhKLy
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 18, 2018
Netanyahu also praised Bollywood, saying that the world, including Israel, loves the films of this genre.
Among those present at the event were Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Subhash Ghai, Imtiaz Ali, Ronnie Screwvala, and Sara Ali Khan. (ANI)