India's Bollywood film Super stars, Shahrukh Khan, was detained and questioned by immigration officials at a US airport for more than two hours, news reports said.
Khan, one of the Indian film industry's biggest stars, said he was detained because his name came up on a computer alert list at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Press Trust of India news agency said.
'He was detained because his surname is Khan. He was kept until officials from the Indian embassy intervened. Now he has been released,' Khan's manager Niloufer Qureshi said from Mumbai.
'I was taken to a room for questioning. They said my name kept popping up on the computer,' Khan said on a telephone interview on NDTV news channel.
"Shah Rukh Khan, the actor and global icon, is a very welcome guest in the United States. Many Americans love his films," Roemer said Saturday through an embassy spokesman.
Khan, 44, has acted in more than 70 films, and has consistently topped popularity rankings in India for the past several years. He is in the United States to promote his new film, "My Name Is Khan."
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Shahrukh Khan detained and questioned In US airport more than two hours
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