Shahrukh detained in Newark Airpork for 2 hours!!!

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melancholic

@melancholic

Dazzler

Posted: 16 years ago

#291

i dnt think aftr the 38 page of discussion i need to say over again why i am saying " shame on srk "

till date i hav never ever bad mouthed this fellow... bt aftr all this fiasco.. i hv nothing more to say..

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jhustju

@jhustju

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#292

Originally posted by: mahikhan

Ain?

Shame on srk for wot reason?😲

According to m he should be ashamed of himself because he is making an issue out of nothing. He expects to be given special treatment just because he is an actor. When Dr. Kalam - who is an ex-president- can be frisked to phir SRK kis khet ki muli hai?

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qwww

@qwww

Dazzler

Posted: 16 years ago

#293

😆 😆 😆Let the games begin

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Abdul Rahman Ansari

@ar78655

Rocker

Posted: 16 years ago

#294

The Khans react to Shah Rukh's humiliation in US

After Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained at Newark airport for a security check, many others like Zayed Khan and Irrfan Khan have come out with the ordeals they faced in the US because of their last names. This is what they have to say:

Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan): "After hearing these atrocious accounts who wants to travel to such a stupid place when our beautiful India offers Kashmir's jannat and Kerala's luminous glory? God forbid if we have to go to such a country."

Iqbal Khan: "Such attacks Khans is nothing new. These things happen on American airports. It is time for all Muslims in the world to let everyone know Islam means beliving in God and the Almighty and in peace?..It's happened to me. Once I was to go to the US for a show.

I was the only one who didn't get a visa. And I was the only Muslim. However recently I applied again and I got a 10-year multiple visa.

Eijaz Khan: "I've gone through similar experiences a couple of times in the US.While all my friends breezed through immigration I was questioned and had to give the address I was staying at, and for how long.

My whereabouts were even checked by them later. This was in February after 9/11.I guess this kind of treatment is to be expected by us Khans. We've to take it in our stride."

Zayed Khan: "Of course we Khans go through this kind of humiliation all the time. I've gone through it, Salman has gone through it. I'm glad people are talking about it because of Shah Rukh. There have been times when I've been with 17 people in a team on tour or for a shooting in the US.

Out of these only one gets detained on the airport while the others get cleared in no time at all. Guess who invariably gets detained? And some Caucasian bully who does these checkings by the book and who thinks all Khans are terrorists will tell you it's a random check.

Tell me, how can there be random checks on 5 US airports one after another and in all of them only yours truly gets detained for additional checking? I think there's a big difference between being secure and being ignorant.

I think American investigation agencies need to take a close look at the way they treat a certain community of people. How uncool is to humiliate your guests?? We in our family have stopped going to the US because of these, ha ha, random checks on the airport.

We don't go to the US for holidays, only for work and to meet family and close friends. The Americans must realize they're losing out on a lot of goodwill. They first insulted our former president Abdul Kalam.

And now Shah Rukh. Humiliation of Indians anywhere is unacceptable. Nothing has been done about racist attacks on Indian students in Australia. I see no difference between what's done in Australia and in the US to Indians.

Kabir Khan (director): "I was accompanying my wife in the US along with the Morani Brothers. It was a flight from LA to Washington just 15 days after 9/11.

So the fear and parnaoia were not totally unjustified. We were waiting for the flight to take off talking to each other in Hindi when some passengers complained that we were talking in a 'strange' language.

Within no time two burly FBI agents came on board and took me and my co-passengers to the front of the plane. When they got to know my name they questioned me for more than two hours, googled my name for terrorist links and then finally allowed me to fly.They asked me if I had been to Pakistan. I told them no.

If I had told them I had been to Afganistan they'd have freaked out.Two other passengers on board refused to fly with us. So they were asked to deboard, the logic being that if my name was cleared by no means could I be prevented from traveling.

So you see post -9/11 persecution comes with its inbuilt safety measures. But I honestly think a part of the global fear is justified.We can't blame people for being paranoid after what has happened."

Shabina Khan (dress designer) : "I really dunno what happened with Shah Rukh in the US. But I definitely get into issues at the airport thanks to my surname. It's annoying. I'm now on my way to the same show where SRK was detained and harassed. I hope I don't get into any hassles. It's scary."

Irrfan Khan: "More than the physical torture it's the wounds of humiliation that never heal after you undergo such a horrific experience.It happened to me on two occasions. I was detained in New York and Los Angeles airport for secondary interrogation.I was outraged.

I was told to quietly come into a room for questioning and identification verification. I wasn't allowed to talk. When I tried to ask why I was being treated this way I was told to keep quiet. I wasn't allowed to use my phone, even to inform the people who had come to receive me at the airport.

They said, 'No, you just sit down.'All because my name was Irrfan Khan.The authorities did their job like computers, not caring how it affected the individual. You can't argue back or rationalize. America is a country of superior sophisticated knowledge.

Surely they can tell the difference between a terrorist and an innocent traveler.On a second occasion this time in New York, when I was detained I blew my top.

I told this big Black American buy, 'Please clear the confusion about my identity once and for all. Or don't provide me with a visa. I don't want to come back to the US' The guy wanted to know if it was a threat. I was taken aback.

Mira Nair had to intervene. She advised me to never counter-question them. I wasn't allowed to even get up from my chair. This is the free spirit of America.

This 90-minute detention changed me completely. Just the thought of being held froze my blood. Can you imagine what a 90-day detention can do to an innocent man thrown into jail?"

Link http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=30529

Edited by Lubnavaishali - 16 years ago

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Abdul Rahman Ansari

@ar78655

Rocker

Posted: 16 years ago

#295

US 'overdid' SRK's questioning: Chidambaram

New Delhi, Aug 17, 2009 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambram Monday said the Americans had 'overdone it' by detaining Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for two hours at Newark airport in New Jersey, for questioning.

'Had it been for ten minutes or even twenty minutes (of detention for questioning), one can understand it. But one fails to understand how could they hold him for two long hours?' said Chidambaram, talking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual meet of the state chief ministers and the police chiefs on internal security scenario in the country here at Vigyan Bhawan.

'It takes maximum of ten minutes, say twenty minutes, even if you have to frisk a person after stripping him. They have simply overdone it,' he said.

'And to add to the complications, they allowed SRK to make a call only after two hours. Had they allowed him to make the call in first fifteen minutes, there would have been no controversy,' said the minister.

Asked if India too would treat visiting US dignitaries or their high-profile citizens in the same manner, Chidambaram said: 'We will tell them that we do it (frisking) and checking only in civilised manner.'

The minister, however, lamented that such an unsavoury treatment was meted out to a high-profile citizen of a country where 'we send our joint secretaries officers to the tarmac to receive them (visiting dignitaries.)'

Reacting to the incident, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Sunday said that the government will take up the issue with the US government at its highest level.

'We will take the issue with the United States government strongly. Such incidents involving Indians due to their religion or nationality should not happen. We will not accept it,' said Patel.

Khan was detained for about two hours Saturday morning at the airport in New Jersey where he had arrived to attend India's Independence Day celebrations with Indian diaspora.

Khan was released after Congress MP Rajiv Shukla spoke to the authorities in the US and the Indian consulate. Khan had been detained after his name flashed on a computer and was asked several questions about the purpose of his visit.

Tourism Minister Ambika Soni too had condemned the incident.

Link http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090817/818/tnl-us-overdid-srk-s-questioning-chidamb.html

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Abdul Rahman Ansari

@ar78655

Rocker

Posted: 16 years ago

#296

Shah Rukh recounts his horrofic encounter in US

After his detention at a US airport sparked a furore in India, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Monday asked people back home not to take the issue further, even as he said that America needs to offer "a little more warmth and speed in its processes".

In Houston where he arrived from Chicago to attend a 'Meet and Greet' carnival, Khan who was 'inspected' at the Newark airport on his arrival from India, said he respected the procedures the US requires incoming foreigners to follow but maintained his experience was "not pleasant".

The actor, who had earlier told his fans that he did not feel like stepping on US soil again, said while everybody loves what America has to offer "but I think it needs to offer a little more warmth and speed in its processes".

However, he requested "everyone" back home not to take the issue "further than it should be".

"I didn't mean it to be like this. Because I had to make a few calls to get out of that place, so I guess it became a big piece of news," he told CNN IBN.

Khan, 43 years old, was stopped and questioned at Newark airport on his arrival from India for about two hours on Saturday and was released only after the Indian consulate intervened, an incident that caused widespread anger in India with the government saying it would take up the issue with the US.

"I just like to tell people that I do understand the anger and angst and disturbance that an incident like this can cause."

The actor, who is in the US to promote his upcoming film My Name is Khan, mingled with his fans in Houston and signed autographs for them. Ironically, the film revolves around a Muslim character and his experiences in a post 9/11 America.

"The film's issue is much larger than just being a stop at the immigration. Its not ironic, may be we made the film because one thinks this is an issue that should be addressed," Khan said.

Commenting on the incident in Newark, he said: "I understand a country has to be a little careful specifically with the things that have happened".

But, he said, instead of doing a retina and finger scan, which is a normal procedure, the immigration authorities kept telling him that his name was "common".

"... They kept telling me your name is common... and I was too polite to ask common to what," he said.

US authorities had denied that the procedure they followed with the Indian actor had anything to do with his name and described it as mere "inspection," attributing it to the delay in the arrival of his baggage.

Khan said America needed to understand that "its not an isolated parallel universe existence for this country".

"There is a whole world which makes all the good and bad that is happening. So if you are scared of violence, terrorism, all of us are responsible for it. It is not that the rest of the world is and America is not," he said.

Link http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=30527

Edited by Lubnavaishali - 16 years ago

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-PoisonIvy-

@-PoisonIvy-

Stunner

Posted: 16 years ago

#297

Originally posted by: Lubnavaishali

Shah Rukh recounts his horrofic encounter in US

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However, he requested "everyone" back home not to take the issue "further than it should be".

"I didn't mean it to be like this. Because I had to make a few calls to get out of that place, so I guess it became a big piece of news," he told CNN IBN.
Great! So after he goes on and on complaining to every news waala (Desi, videshi , ones wev never heard of) for hours and announcing every little detail (falsely) to everyone back home and the poor audiences who were present at the event venue , he says the issue should not be taken further than it should be!!

Khan, 43 years old- For some reason, this just sounded so funny 😆

Link http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=30527

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jhustju

@jhustju

Voyager

Posted: 16 years ago

#298

Chidambaram's reaction makes me wonder do our darling MPs do any work? This week they are discussing SRK's problem, last week it was Sach ka Saamna, the week before that it was gay rights. Dude when are you guys going to discuss serious problems like poverty and terrorism. Also please do not make a mockery of yourself by mentioning that you send people on the tarmac to recieve VIPs from the west. Its only your damn fault that you cant get over the "gora sahib" complex.

Also SRK you have milked this for what it was worth. Now you and your cronies need to STFU!

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404_NotFound

@404_NotFound

Sparkler

+ 7

Posted: 16 years ago

#299

US authorities were doing their duty ..nothing wrong... security measures are taken to protect millions of people...Bollywood stars are so used to VIP treatments in India..they expect the same everywhere....

All the khans mentioned in that article take a chill pill..if u people cant go through security check then please don't travel...

Being an Indian i am ashamed to say this....India making a fool of itself
by reacting to such small incidents...

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Abdul Rahman Ansari

@ar78655

Rocker

Posted: 16 years ago

#300

Originally posted by: ~~ashi~~

Khan, 43 years old- For some reason, this just sounded so funny 😆

Hi Ashi, How ru???

Actually it was Khan, 43 the sentence sounded strange to me and i had to change it to Khan, 43 years old, Have I done the right thing ??????? or not