If You Can’t Speak Kannada I Can Suspect: DID Winner Salman Yusuff Khan Claims Harassment At Bengaluru Airport

Salman Yusuff Khan Harassed: Dance India Dance and ABCD fame, Salman Yusuff Khan recently shared an unpleasant experience with his fans on social media. The dancer in a video claimed that he was harassed by an immigration officer at Bengaluru's Kempe Gowda International Airport.

Salman Yusuff Khan Shared An Unpleasant Experience From Bengaluru Airport

Salman was visibly disturbed as he narrated his ordeal with his fans in an Instagram LIVE and said that he was going to report the incident to the airport authorities. Donning a pink T-shirt and jacket, along with a hat, he begins speaking with a mask on but removes it after a few seconds into the video. He starts with "On my way to Dubai and I meet this immigration officer who speaks to me in Kannada .. and I in my broken Kannada try to tell him that I understand the language but can't speak so well".

The immigration officer continues to speak in Kannada and shows him his passport while pointing toward his name and his birthplace and his father's name and his birthplace.

Salman wrote that the officer had the audacity to tell him that, he and his father were born in Bangalore still he couldn't speak Kannada. To this the dancer replied, "being born in Bangalore doesn't mean I'm born with the language ... I could be born in Bangalore and travelled the world like I have been always a Saudi child bought up in Saudi .."

The actor mentions that he never had Kannada as his first language as never lived in the country during his school time. Whatever little he knows is through his friends.

The immigration officer goes on to say that "if u can't speak Kannada I can suspect you ..."

Meanwhile, Salman Yusuff Khan is an actor, dancer, choreographer and television judge. He won the first season of Dance India Dance show. He has even starred in ABCD, Street Dancer, Lakshmi, and others Bollywood films.