Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan will be honoured with Locarno Film Festival’s career achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, at the 77th Edition of the event in Switzerland, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
“To welcome a living legend like Shah Rukh Khan in Locarno is a dream come true. The actor and film producer – a true Indian superstar, a symbol of the vitality of Hindi-language cinema – will receive our career achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, at Locarno77,” read Locarno Film Festival’s post on X.
The film festival will be held from August 7 to August 17 in Switzerland’s Locarno.
In the past years, Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (2023), Greek-French film director and screenwriter Costa Gavras (2022), Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti (2021) and Swiss filmmaker Fredi M. Murer (2020) have been honoured with the Pardo alla Carriera.
Founded in 1946, the Locarno Film Festival showcases films across various competitive and non-competitive sections, encompassing feature-length narratives, documentaries, shorts, avant-garde works and retrospectives.
On the work front, Shah Rukh headlined three films last year, including the record-breaking hits Jawan and Pathaan. Dunki, starring Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal and Boman Irani alongside Shah Rukh, released on December 21.
Both Jawan and Dunki were produced under Shah Rukh’s home banner Red Chillies Entertainment.
The 58-year-old Bollywood star’s upcoming movie, reportedly titled King, is expected to feature him alongside his daughter Suhana Khan. However, an official announcement regarding King is still awaited.
