{"id":48879,"date":"2018-01-20T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=48879"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:40:00","slug":"netanyahu-recreates-oscar-moment-clicks-selfie-with-bollywood-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/netanyahu-recreates-oscar-moment-clicks-selfie-with-bollywood-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Recreates \u2018Oscar\u2019 Moment, Clicks Selfie with Bollywood Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with Bollywood personalities during \u201cShalom Bollywood,\u201d an evening to celebrate Israeli and Indian Bollywood relations during his visit, in Mumbai, Jan. 18. (Shirish Shete\/PTI)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Recreating the viral \u2018Oscar selfie,\u2019 which featured several Hollywood stars in one picture, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jan. 18, posed with Bollywood superstars as a sign of the \u201cgreat friendship\u201d between India and Israel.<\/p>\n

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Netanyahu was at \u201cShalom Bollywood\u201d event in Mumbai, where top stars from the industry were present, including Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, and filmmaker Karan Johar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone in Indian and Israel to know about the phenomenal friendship between our countries. So I\u2019ve an idea.<\/p>\n

One of the most viral pictures took place at the Oscars where several celebrities took a selfie together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I want all the Bollywood actors, directors, producers present here to join me right now for a selfie so millions of people can see the great friendship between the two countries,\u201d Netanyahu added.<\/p>\n

Posing for the selfie were Bollywood guests like Bachchan and his family, Johar, Randhir Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sara Ali Khan, filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nikkhil Advani, Abhishek Kapoor, Subhash Ghai, lyricist Prasoon Joshi among others.<\/p>\n

Aishwarya along with producer Ronnie Screwvala welcomed the prime minister and the first lady, Sara Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Karan Johar\u2019s production \u201cDrive\u201d became the first Bollywood film to be shot in Israel for which Johar along with Dharma Productions CEO Apoorva Mehta were felicitated by Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with Amitabh Bachchan and his family, during \u201cShalom Bollywood,\u201d an evening to celebrate Israeli and Indian Bollywood relations during his visit, in Mumbai, Jan. 18. (Shirish Shete\/PTI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the event, Bachchan gave the keynote address where he spoke about how, from a time when acting in films was looked down upon, today Bollywood has become a parallel culture.<\/p>\n

Bachchan, 75, said when \u201cwe as a community watch films in a darkened hall, we never ask the caste or creed, or color or religion of the person sitting next to us. We enjoy the same film, laugh at the same joke, cry at the same emotion. In a world where we see humanity disintegrating in front of us, cinema is perhaps (among) the few yet prominent entities that bring people together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu in his address quipped that Bachchan has \u201c30 million more followers than me on Twitter\u201d and stressed how if India and Israel come together, \u201cmagic will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also present at the event was Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.<\/p>\n

Choreographer Terence Lewis along with his group brought the curtain down with a dance medley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with Bollywood personalities during \u201cShalom Bollywood,\u201d an evening to celebrate Israeli and Indian Bollywood relations during his visit, in Mumbai, Jan. 18. (Shirish Shete\/PTI) Recreating the viral \u2018Oscar selfie,\u2019 which featured several Hollywood stars in one picture, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jan. 18, posed with Bollywood…<\/p>\n

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