MUMBAI: Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, who was recently seen in Oscar winning film Silver Linings Playbook, was honoured by Los Angeles City Council president Herb J. Wesson, Jr and 4th District council member Tom Labonge with a City Proclamation at Los Angeles City Hall on 26 February.

The actor was much appreciated in Bend It Like Beckham and went on to do Bride & Prejudice, The Mistress of Spices, American Blend, Hope and a Little Sugar, Midnight‘s Children and appeared on the medical drama series ER in the role of Parminder Nagra‘s (Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the show) father.

Kher said, "It is a big event because I am being honoured as an actor, and not only as an Indian actor. The Proclamation from the City of Los Angeles would be an endorsement of the fact that Asian actors are not seen as peculiar phenomena on a global platform. Of course, most of my films are Indian and I am an Indian actor. It was given to me on the same day as they gave it to the Legendary Dick Van Dyke."