Hansika Motwani’s passport woes

Hansika Motwani, who is presently shooting in Paris, was tired of her busy work schedule and just for a change in her routine she planned a trip to London over the weekend. But she did not realise the horror that she will go through as her passport went missing.

“I was waiting for this particular weekend as I didn’t have much to do in Paris and London being just three hours away was the obvious choice,” she reveals. Hansika booked a round trip to London, but while checking out from the hotel she found out that staff had misplaced her passport.

“Losing a passport for an Asian in a European country is dangerous especially after 9/11 as it results in immediate detention and massive background check. Thank God, Hansika did not go to the airport or else she would have straight been taken to police custody and questioned. No one would have got to know also where she was as terror suspects are heavily dealt with and their location is undisclosed till the police is absolutely sure that he or she does not have any connection with any terror group and that he or she is not there for a possible terror attack.

She would not have been allowed to even leave the country until the Indian high commission vouched for her identity. It would have been all a time consuming effort,” adds a source.

After four hours of tension and trauma for Hansika, the hotel staff managed to eventually find it, but it went in vain, as Hansika was already too late for her flight.

Hansika was obviously disheartened and said, “I was really looking forward to a good weekend in London. A passport is the most important document when one is travelling and when they told me that they can’t find mine, I was really worried but I really appreciate the hotel staff as they turned the whole place upside down and managed to find it for me. The only unfortunate thing was I missed my flight and had to stay back in Paris. This particular experience has taught me a good lesson to carry a copy of all important documents while travelling abroad. London will be some other time then. It’s time for some shopping in Paris.”