Shah Rukh, Rani to perform in Bangladesh

DHAKA - Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Arjun Rampal and Isha Koppikar will perform here Dec 10 to campaign for the world’s largest mangrove Sundarbans as one of the seven wonders of the world.

“The Bollywood stars will perform and vote to select the seven wonders at the Army Stadium. Bangladeshi private television channel Boishakhi TV will telecast the event,” Swapan Chowdhury, chairman of Ontor Showbiz which signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the channel, announced Thursday.

Bollywood singer Niraj Sreedhar, choreographer Ganesh Hedge, and Bangladeshi movie star Shakib Khan, singer Kumar Biswajit and dancer Prantor will also perform at the six-hour show.

King Khan and his co-performers will arrive here a day earlier.

“This event will be a milestone in the realm of entertainment in Bangladesh and we are very excited as well as delighted to be a part of this,” Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, CEO and editor-in-chief of Boishakhi TV was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.