While unveiling his wax duplicate, Bollywood badshah Shahrukh Khan looked clearly pleased. With his trademark smile, he described his wax figure as “awesome and surprising”. Led by two Sikh drummers, Khan entered the crowded hall; took off his own flower garland and light-heartedly put it on the wax figure. He fiddled with its hair and posed beside it.

Khan thanked the museum and particularly the team that had gone to Mumbai in February to take his initial measurements. Standing next to his lookalike Khan said, “To come face to face with someone who is so much like you is really surprising.”

So was he meeting his twin brother who got lost in a village fair many years ago? “No he doesn’t look like my twin brother”, said Khan, “He looks more like my younger brother. Younger and smarter.” He said he would have preferred the figure showing the signs of age as he did now.

Khan said he first visited the world famous museum with his mother when he was a child and that she would have been proud to see his wax figure had she been alive today.

In the past few months Madame Tussauds had been inundated with thousands of requests from fan clubs in India, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Australia to find out when the acting legend’s figure would arrive. So not surprisingly, hundreds of Asian fans waited on a breezy cold morning for hours for Khan’s arrival and many of them were clearly disappointed when they hardly got a glimpse of their favourite star.

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