this happened like last year and they apologised and said they’d do better after a bunch of bollywood fans stirred up the shit on twitter. they should do better tbh at this point, because even if the most popular brown man has to put up with this racism constantly with a ton of exposure, then that’s (duh) bad.

Sorry, just wanted to add:

He has certainly been classy and gracious about all of this. Maybe I’m just hypersensitive right now, but I think we could all learn from his example.

It’s Kajra Re. (kajra is eyes, I think? my hindi is pretty weak lol) But yes, she is stunning.

*sigh* You’re missing the point. This has happened over and over again. People have already gotten mad over this the last time he was detained, because he has a huge fanbase and they obviously made a whole deal about it. The American embassy or whatever already apologised the last time. They KNOW he is popular, but…

Ummm ...If I would see Fan Bing Bing, Utuada Hikaru...or maybe Lee Min Ho, Kim Woo Bin or Donnie Yen (!!!) ANYWHERE ..I would probably have a very pathetic freak out. But then again, I’m a crazy K-Drama, Asian-Movies loving nerd so .... ;-)

All I mean to say is that they didn’t care enough ABOUT his stardom to update a database or maybe send an news update - “hey guys! so we detained this brown fellow and apparently he’s a huge star, and people are hella mad, bc this is like the 3rd time. so anyways next time this fellow pops in, maybe not stop him?…

If? He most certainly is being pulled aside due to profiling.

No one is arguing that they SHOULD know him. I simply said that Americans are largely unaware of cultures outside their own, which is true. They have no need to be, nor are they inclined towards it. Whatever. The problem is that despite his stardom, he has REPEATEDLY been detained. The last time he was detained in the…

I’m truly baffled about how many people are basically: Well I don’t know who this guy is either sooo... he probably is not as famous as he thinks.

He is...Indian. Not North American. The whole point is that the racial profiling is so common and incompetent that he (being the biggest Bollywood star and frankly with more viewership than most Hollywood stars) got detained REPEATEDLY. Over and over again because of his skin colour.

Get ready to feel the wrath of Khan

That song is a straight up banger. I had it on repeat ALL DAY. The Heems verse is everything.

He’s one of the VERY, VERY few Bollywood stars who came up on their own and not via family connections, and dynasties which explains his chill level. He’s always proud of himself in interviews but never comes off as obnoxious.

Have you seen any of his movies? He’s the bomb.

If I were a US Customs agent, I’d detain his fine ass, too.

Bureaucracy rules

I got detained day before at LAX - me and Shahrukh Khan are BFFS via racial profiling I WILL BROOK NO NAYSAYERS

It was not immediately clear why the actor was detained