America Abroad Media to Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan honored for tackling social issues

Amir Khan is a huge Bollywood superstar actor, director and producer, sometimes referred to as "India's Tom Hanks ."
But between the movie - "Dhoom 3 : in Action" in December to open - Khan , 48, has become a television sensation , hosted "Satyamev Jayete," a Sunday morning program , which means " truth shall prevail " Hindi , India's tackle some of the most pressing social issues : Forced abortions of unborn girls , domestic violence, child sexual abuse, alcoholism and treatment of the elderly.
The program was launched in 2012 and became so popular that it pushes sweat to this year's "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people in the world release of the cover. On Monday night in Washington , he will receive the first prize American foreign media , as well as the Oscar -winning director Kathryn Bigelow ( "Zero Dark 30 " and " The Hurt Locker" ) , the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict , 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Khan screening for fetal infanticide plot Jefferson Hotel on Sunday night , a small audience, whose members gasped out loud a few women tell their terrible stories. But the "Satyamev" there is no impact cheesy reality TV star. Khan introduced diagonally opposite each topic , before gently victims , advocates and experts presented conclusive evidence of accumulation . End , he provides in extreme cases people seeking help for information .
Show open hymn forced abortion , mothers, including many Indian goddess , before the audience three women whose husband's family deceit they get tests revealed the baby's sex , and often forced them to end a pregnancy without success each had a son. A mother to endure six abortions. A female doctor was pushed down the stairs when she was through her surgeon husband, twin girls 20 weeks of pregnancy , the baby survived . In some cases , the only way these women can save their children fleeing her husband and returned to their parents' home .
Khan , he has a daughter and two sons , looking into the camera , and explained that it was not a woman who decided the baby's sex . "This is the father 's sperm , rather than the mother who is to blame , " he said, if the anger of millions of legal education in basic biology.
Khan for his programs on domestic violence , requiring all male audience . Although many people of faith, their wives , mothers, daughters and sisters in a dark alley or a bad neighbor greatest risk , Khan provides startling statistics , 60 % of women attack occurred at home .
"This is a huge problem , we are trying to erode patriarchy and we try and share many aspects of violence is not just personal , but we are trying to get people to understand a woman experiences when she was a victim or a survivor ," he said that in the pre-screening interview. "We entered the law have strong laws , but many women do not know that they and many eventually did not take any action because where they will live after the insecurity of the Act clearly stipulates that absolutely no woman can throw a house " even if it is owned by a male relative .
Khan honed since childhood scenes - his father and uncles major Bollywood figures - a few years ago , someone asked , who is responsible for the Indian star network , hosted the game show 's former reporter Uday Shankar . He declined , and spent 18 months, a few friends together to create a serious program , combined with solid research specialists , high production values ​​and emotional story .
By 2011, he presented his concept and conditions Shankar : Exhibition in Hindi, English subtitles , dubbing and his entire country 120 million people in seven other languages ​​do not dominate the network Star network , yet Carl rights and his rival network programming will be broadcast hours, Sunday 11:00 at the " graveyard ", when it is not breaking news , sports or entertainment competition.
"I hope the audience step by step toward me, and said:" Khan , surfboard ball game instead of the soap opera channel , reality , back to him . "We do not know whether people will be interested to see a very serious topic , such as child sexual abuse or domestic violence ." Proved that they are attractive because Khan , compassion and influential .
In Rajasthan, the largest state of the country , he called for a "fast track " the court , after two attempts Doctors television reporter went undercover expose the abortion mills . "In six months has two convictions " in the case of the judicial system , can languish for decades. Final " was convicted of 43 doctors, 39 imprisoned , fined , illegal sex selection of 100 clinic was raided ."
For his performance alcoholism , he and Alcoholics Anonymous in its 65 years in India has helped 30,000 people cooperation . Within a week of his broadcast , AA flooded with 100,000 calls.
When the Sun screening and Q & A ended , Khan discussed his work with several spectators. Susan Blumenthal said that doctors and former U.S. assistant surgeon general, and sex-selective abortion in India and China, the two well-known outside the country , "he was doing, to inform the public there, and then on the ground using tissue work did not get the attention it deserves , which may be a turning point . "
Foreign media board member Douglas B. Wilson, whose group perform sweat, can only marvel star power possessed by one person :
"It will be like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise together if they collectively said," We will ask our nation to focus on the problems can not be ignored, we want to use our celebrity to concentrate, because this will change ' , that is your Amir Khan . He is known that he could twerking , but he focused on female feticide . " ..........