Neil Nitin Mukesh
“Arrest him. He is carrying a fake passport”, said the immigration officer at the airport as Neil Nitin Mukesh approached him for clearance. The actor was soon detained for not carrying an original passport.
If you thought this was a scene from Nitin’s upcoming movie, think again. Because, contrary to what you may think, rather than reel life, this incident actually took place in actor’s real life as he was detained at an airport in United States.
The stories of racial discrimination against Indians are not new and history has a list of such incidents documented with it starting from Mahatna Gandhi in South Africa to the recent attacks on students of Indian origin in Australia, where people had to suffer due to black color of their skin.
Neil also had to go through one such experiences some days back, though the only difference in his case was that he was harassed and detained because rather than being black in color, his skin is white. The actor was recently detained at an airport in America when the authorities objected to his passport showing him a person of Indian origin, where as going by his looks and color of his skin, he seems to be of an European or American origin. The immigration officer just couldn’t understand that why a person of European or American origin carried an Indian passport and insisted that he was an Indian?
Initially, the authorities also refused to accept that Neil was an Indian actor. But, it was only after Nitin acted smart and somehow convinced the authorities to search his initials at Google search, that the entire confusion got sorted out and he was set free by the immigration authorities in United States.
So Neil Nitin Mukesh should thank this wonder called Google search engine that saved him from lots of trouble.
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