Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan grilled at US airport...

 ''My name is Khan.'' ''Oh it is, is it? Step aside, please.'' 

The way it was related, that might well have been the opening exchange between Shah Rukh Khan and an unnamed, uniformed, super-empowered US immigration official who had no idea (and didn’t care) that the man in front of him is the star of a film by the same name (My Name is Khan), much less that he is a universal Bollywood icon. 

SRK, as the actor star is known by his popular acronym, was asked to indeed step aside for a ''secondary inspection'' at Newark’s ironically named (in this context) Liberty International airport on Friday en route to an event to celebrate India’s Independence Day in Chicago, President Barack Obama’s hometown. But that was only after a ''primary inspection.'' More...

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