Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee carried an unusual gift for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani when he visited Pakistan last week – a box full of Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai’s movies.

The 55-year-old Pakistani premier lists Aishwarya and Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan as his favourite film stars. He said it was a "pleasant surprise" when he unwrapped the gift and found it contained a number of DVDs of his favourite actress’ s films.

During an appearance on ARY Oneworld TV channel’s morning show, Gillani said that Mukherjee’s aides must have found out about his fondness for Indian films ,and especially Aishwarya Rai’s movies ,since he had written in his book Chah-e-Yousaf Say Sada that he watched many of her films on his laptop computer when he was imprisoned by Pervez Musharraf’s regime from 2001-06.