Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise arrived in India on Saturday to promote the fourth instalment of his blockbuster Mission: Impossible series. Sporting a big grin and sunglasses, the actor who is on a world-wide promotional tour for the movie, told reporters in the Indian capital New Delhi he was "very excited to be here" as cameramen jostled to film him.
Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, Cruise's co-star in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", later accompanied him to the northern city of Agra where the pair visited the Taj Mahal, India's most famous monument to love. "I have wanted to come here all my life," Cruise said in Agra as TV cameras filmed the actor standing outside the white marble mausoleum Cruise, 49, then headed to Bollywood capital Mumbai where he was the guest of honour at a party hosted by Kapoor, according to the Press Trust of India. The US actor was staying in Mumbai at the Taj Mahal Hotel, one of the sites attacked three years ago by Islamic militants who killed 166 people, the Indian national news agency said.