Spicezee Bureau
Mumbai: While most of our Bollywood actors are still struggling to establish a strong foothold in filmdom, Shah Rukh Khan has made it to the moon and we mean that literally.
The actor now has a crater in the moon's Sea of Tranquillity that has been christened after him. And it’s all owing to King Khan’s loyal fans, who with their umpteen petitions persuaded the International Lunar Geographic Society, a New York-based organization, to name the crater after the Indian superstar.
Approved by the International Astronomical Union, which has a final say with regard to the naming of craters on the moon, the actor now boasts of a crater ‘SR KHAN’. confirming the news a source said, The carter “has been given the honorary designation as the Crater S R Khan on the occasion of Mr Khan's 44th birthday on November 2, 2009”.
According to the society, the crater was named after a flood of petitions from Shah Rukh's admirers from India and around the world. What’s more is that one of his dedicated admirers has already presented him with a piece of the moon by buying him land there.
With this Shah Rukh will now rub shoulders with personalities like Nobel laureate C V Raman, father of the Indian space programme Vikram Sarabhai, father of the Indian nuclear programme Homi Bhabha and other luminaries like Meghnad Saha after whom craters have been named.
Way to go SRK!
First Published: Monday, January 25, 2010, 09:54