So our King Khan, Mr. Shahrukh is detained at an airport in the US and the Master-Marketer has blown the issue out of proportion. It seems that the name “Khan” was the root of the problem and the Bollywood superstar was questioned for couple of hours. Then; SRK shocked, politicians telephoned, embassy people run for rescue, new channels blabber away with breaking news of racial profiling, and Bollywood crazy-emotional people give all sorts of galis to the US officials.
Shahrukhji, you could be the world for some and God for many, but that’s in India. On a foreign land, you are just one among many who land at the port of entry and for the officers you are just another traveller. It is quite acceptable of the officers who were diligently performing their duty, the law & security regulations there, probably see one and all with equality, unlike what happens in our country. You may a great personality here in India but certainly not a VIP in some other country. It is not always necessary that you are a known face everywhere in the world (even if a fan from Pakistan stands up and recognises you). So Mr. SRK, there is no need to change your face or feel depressed about the fellow passengers who had lined up for interrogation – for the time being please, lets keep your idiosyncratic comments aside.
When Imraan Hashmi was supposedly denied an apartment in Mumbai because of religion, and you (Shahrukh) felt that “it is no big deal, it is just one-off incident”, then I don’t see any big deal in your detention either. Just that premise is different, but the prejudice (if that is what you have gone through) is the same.
It definitely is not the case that you are visiting US for the first time, and as per your statement, incidents like these have happened to you earlier as well. Why, then was there a need to intensify the issue this time? Were you so really hurt this time? Or were you feeling embarrassed that you squirted everything out in frustration, just to tell the officers there – “so you see now, who I am?” Kkkkkkkkyon Kkkkkkyooooonnnn Shahrukh Kkkkyoon.
Ahhh! I get it, “My Name is Khan”, your next big flick with darling friend KJo in collaboration with Fox Studios. So is all this hungama, a publicity stunt for the movie? “My Name is Khan”, you are spreading the buzz already, so that the Rs. 100 crore deal churns 2 whopping profit – quite evidently you are the bestseller of yourself. Ahem! Now I get it all.
Little piece of advice though, please keep the exploitation of people’s sentiments out of your heroic acts.
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