Tanishaa Mukerji, who is currently in New York where she attended the CRY America charity gala earlier this week, alleged she was subjected to racism at The Jane Hotel on Saturday night.

Talking to mid-day from the US, the actor said that she was partying with her friends at the hotel's club when one of the employees started hurling insensitive remarks at her. "I don't understand what triggered it as I was polite, but he turned rude. One of the employees, an African-American, said that we looked as if we were fresh off the boat and couldn't speak English. That was insulting and blatantly racist. My friends and I were shocked. It's traumatic to experience this kind of racism in the US; I have never faced it earlier."