Shah Rukh Khan parties with Zayn Malik at Asian Awards

SRK blesses former One Direction band’s songwriter and singer Zayn Malik

Bollywood King Khan was honoured with the prestigious ‘Outstanding Contribution to Cinema’ award at the fifth annual Asian Awards in London and was soon after seen partying with Zayn Malik.

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The actor was honoured to receive the prestigious accolade saying, “I’d like to thank the world for their inspiration.”

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The award ceremony took place on April 17 and apart from SRK, a bevy of other international celebrities, politicians, musicians and industrialists made their presence felt at the event.

Interestingly, SRK was seen partying with former One Direction singer Zayn Malik at the dinner and tweeted pictures with him calling him 'cool'.

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Marvellous Asian Awards. Paul & Kiran hav done a great job. Zayn & Naughty Boy r so cool. Gurinder’s BILB on WestEnd pic.twitter.com/mSwlsFRfsK

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 17, 2015

This kid is so cool. May Allah bless him. Dinner time at the Asian Awards. pic.twitter.com/l0gV12n0kv

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 17, 2015

And Twitter exploded with Zayn Malik fans excitedly retweeting and commenting on the picture:

@iamsrk MASHALLAH

— imane💫 (@mybradfordlove) April 17, 2015

https://twitter.com/iNationalSRKian/status/589165921261920257
https://twitter.com/zouismokinghot/status/589165927465406464
https://twitter.com/malabamizayn/status/589165983455178752

In his speech SRK said, “I am extremely humbled and honoured to receive this award. I say this very often that my stardom belongs to most South East Asians who reside abroad who have made the Indian cinema and me known around the world."

He further went on to praise the Muslim star along with other famous personalities and said, "I congratulate all the winners at the Asian Awards as well. There is so much talent around Asia and so many achievers, whether is was Dr Amar Bose, the Hinduja Brothers or Zayn Malik. I am glad to have been a part of such a wonderful celebration of hard work by people in difference field but similar passion.”