The Harpers hook up with their fave Bollywood star, Akshay Kumar

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and is wife Laureen attended a private dinner in Toronto Friday to celebrate the birthday of Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar. Later, after the Harpers had left, Kumar’s birthday party continued on, with a performance by rapper Ludacris and comedian Russell Peters. (Some reports say Harper may have met Ludacris and seen his show but PMO sources say the Harpers were gone from the party before the entertainment got going.)

Kumar was in town for the launch of his new film Breakaway at the Toronto International Film Festival, funded partly with money from the Ontario government. Kumar, whose star power in the subcontinent is about equivalent to Brad Pitt’s on this continent, helped Harper out during the last general election, joining him for a campaign event in Brampton, Ont. (The Conservatives took both seats in Brampton, vanquishing the Liberals who held them). Harper first met Kumar in Mumbai, India in the fall of 2009 and named him as one of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch bearers.