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ShareThe official was baffled. "What's wrong with you?" he asked. Shahid shrugged his shoulders and said, "I did a double role in my last film -- one guy fa ko fa bolta hai and the other guy stammers."
"There was another Indian actor who stammered before me last week," recalled the official and slipped into a flashback about how that actor had reacted on being detained. "Don't you know me?" he'd asked the official and immediately started to stammer -- "I love you, K..k..kiran." For two hours the actor sang, danced and acted out scenes from films before the official, who finally admitted he'd recognised Shah Rukh Khan at first sight but just wanted some free entertainment from a big Bollywood star.
Shahid was not amused. "I'm alfo a big ftar," he said. "Haven't you feen Kaminey?" The official nodded but looked surprised. "That was you in Kaminey?" he asked. "I'm sorry I didn't recognise you. The film was so dark that I had no idea what was happening on the screen." Shahid pulled out a torch from his pocket and handed it over to the official. "Here, flafh thif torch at the fcreen when you watch it again and you'll fee my face," he said. "We fhot Kaminey under difficult firfumftancef -- refeffion and conftant power cutf."
Even as Shahid was being interrogated, he noticed another passenger -- a cool dude with a very familiar tattoo on his arm -- being allowed entry. "Hey," snapped Shahid, "how come you're letting him go?" The official laughed and said, "He's Safe Ali Khan -- with a name like that we don't expect any trouble."
Finally, the official also let him go. As he was leaving, Shahid noticed an elderly guy sitting in a corner of the detention room. "What'f your ftory?" asked Shahid. The man smirked. "I'm Just One Singh," he groaned. "The Americans think I'm a security threat because every time I release something, I cause trouble -- whether I release terrorists as a minister or release books as ex-minister!"
