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Shah Rukh Khan shared his experience of being in New York during the 9/11 attacks while promoting My Name Is Khan. He recalled the shock of witnessing the tragedy and how it affected him and his family. The actor also recalled how he took special permission and flew out of the city amid crisis.
Shah Rukh Khan on being witnessing 9/11 attacks
In a chat with DW News, Shah Rukh was asked about 9/11 as he was promoting his film My Name Is Khan. The dealt with growing Islamophobia in the West after the terror attack. Shah Rukh recalled that he was in New York at the time. He shared, “My director’s mother (Hiroo), my wife (Gauri) and my little son (Aryan) and we were to do an interview for the launch of a film called Asoka. And the rest of the crew was supposed to fly off to Toronto four hours before us.”
He further said, “I was woken up… Karan’s mother, Mrs Hiroo, she showed me the television and I thought it’s the plane that our crew is taking, that’s why she is showing that there has been an accident. There was press on floor below my room, waiting to do the interviews and I was like, ‘What has happened?’ I was stuck there for 3-4 days with my family. Then, we kind of made our way out, went to Toronto and flew back because all the flights and everything was cancelled. So we asked for special permission and requested some people, and they kind of understood. Very kindly, they let the family go because the kids and mothers and everyone… so we got out of it. I think I was deeply affected by it, like everyone else was.”
Shah Rukh Khan once opened up about how he was regularly stopped at the airport in America for security checks. “Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to America. The immigration guys kicked the star out of stardom,” he said during his address at Yale.
On the work front, the actor will be seen in Siddharth Anand’s King with daughter Suhana.
