India and US in diplomatic spat after Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan detained at New York airport Khan, 46, who was travelling in a private plane to deliver a speech at Yale University on Thursday evening, said he was held by officials at White Plains airport. "The immigration guys kick the stars out of stardom," said Khan, who boasted of some small victories when he was questioned under detention, such as fibbing about his height. In 2009, the Indian cinema legend was detained for two hours at Newark airport in New York, suggesting then that he was singled out as a Muslim. He was released after the intervention of the US embassy. That incident came shortly after Fox Star Studios struck a deal to finance and distribute the film "My Name is Khan," starring Khan as an Indian Muslim setting out on a journey across the United States. The film featured the contentious subject of racial profiling after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Reacting to the latest incident, India's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said he had asked India's ambassador to Washington to take up the issue with the US authorities. Khan is a heart-throb in India having acted in nearly 80 films, including huge boxoffice hits such as "Ra. One" and "Om Shanti Om." A foreign ministry official in New Delhi said the "repeated" targeting of Khan had to be more than coincidental. "A mechanical apology is not adequate," said the official, who declined to be named.