It's happened again. Shah Rukh Kahn has been held up at another airport, this time in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who plays a Muslim mistaken for a terrorist in his latest film, says he was racially profiled once again at the Nashville, Tennessee airport and detained for several hours, Saturday morning.
The 43-year-old "Robert Pattinson of India", cited recently as one of the world's 50 most influential men - was released only after Indian diplomats intervened.
"This is the second time recently and it's getting old", reportedly stated Khan. "I'd sue their ass but they have a legal right to hold me until I am cleared because a name similar to mine is on some list"
"I was really being hassled by one big-bellied sheriff who came in before the FBI as he pushed me around with the belly as he asked about somebody named Kirk because of my name being Khan," the international box office sensation charged Saturday afternoon in a text message to reporters. "I think it was on a Saturday last time."
Khan, having appeared in more than 70 films, said he was actually looking for his luggage to come in when his name came up on a computer alert list. Security then pulled him aside.
Khan said he endured two and a half hours of interrogation before he was allowed to call the Indian embassy in Washington to get someone to Nashville. They wouldn't accept a telephone call.
He also reportedly stated that that brown-chinned chewing sheriff was a psycho.
"He kept asking me about "James Kirk" and wasn't I still not exiled to Ceit Alpha V."
