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New Delhi: Versatile actor Abhishek Bachchan has proved that it is not only in the variety of roles on screen that he has excelled. The actor has been honoured with a Green Globe award for "outstanding efforts by a celebrity" to fight climate change.
The 35-year-old actor, who received the award from noted environmentalist R K Pachauri, said he has always tried to associate himself with organizations that make efforts for a greener future.
"I am humbled to have got this award... I remember as a young student in boarding school I was taught about how much our earth is suffering due to our style of living... But as I left school and became an actor I somehow lost touch with all these things... But I met Dr Pachauri and that reiterated the belief in me that I can make a difference... As an actor I have a platform to reach out to the masses and I want to put that to full use. I will continue to spread the message of global warming and educate people about the problems we might face in the future," Bachchan said.
The award was given to Bachchan at the 12th Sustainable Development Leadership Summit, which was also attended by Hollywood action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger who said he wants to inspire the world to go green.
The 64-year-old actor on his maiden visit to India said: ?Most powerful movements in history, like that of (fighting) apartheid, American civil war and fight of Indian independence started at grass root level by a single person, like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther. They did not wait for higher authorities to give them go ahead to do something like this?.
The Terminator star who has also served as the Governor of California from 2003 until 2011said: ?I was shooting for The Last Stand and I asked them to speed up filming, so that I could be free to come here. I always wanted to come to this land of culture and tradition,? he said.
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