You won our hearts: Bollywood celebs thank Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bonded with film celebrities in Mumbai, who have described it an honour and privilege to meet him.

MUMBAI: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bonding here with film celebrities -- who have described it an honour and privilege to meet him -- was lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "wonderful".

Netanyahu met the celebrities at a gala "Shalom Bollywood" evening here on Thursday night.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Madhur Bhandarkar, Vivek Oberoi, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Karan Johar, Subhash Ghai, Imtiaz Ali, Prasoon Joshi, Randhir Kapoor, Ronnie Screwvala, Raj Nayak and Sara Ali Khan were among some of the names from the film fraternity present at the event.

Karan tweeted a series of photographs of himself with Netanyahu.

Bhandarkar said it was "great attending presentation on history, culture and geodiversity of Israel along with film fraternity and had a pleasure interacting with Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu and the first lady."

Vivek said it was an "incredible pleasure" to meet Netanyahu, who welcomed Bollywood to feature Israel's natural beauty in its movies.

Ghai was touched by the "delightful scene" when Netanyahu invited celebrities for a selfie and Amitabh helped him to take the selfie.

"A pleasant evening indeed," he said, adding that he was glad that master of ceremony Mandira Bedi did not use the word "Bollywood" in her speech, nor did Amitabh while welcoming Netanyahu.

"They used the word Hindi cinema -- a real title of pride for Indian and Indian cinema," Ghai added.

On Netanyahu's wish, the celebrities posed for an Oscar-like selfie.

Netanyahu shared the photograph on his Twitter page.

To that, Modi wrote: "Wonderful bonding, Prime Minister!"

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