Dancer Salman Yusuff Khan harassed at Bengaluru airport for not knowing Kannada

Choreographer and actor Salman Yusuff Khan shared his experience after being allegedly harassed for not speaking Kannada at the Bengaluru airportDance India Dance fame took to Instagram and shared a video explaining the entire incident that happened with him on WednesdayIn the video Salman Yusuff was seen dressed in a pink shirt along with a hat He tagged Kempegowda International airport and wrote 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 cant speak so well to which he continues to speak in Kannada and shows me my passport and points out my name and my birth place and my fathers name and his birthplace and has the audacity to tell me that you and your father are born in bangalore and u cant speak Kannada to which I replied that being born in bangalore doesnt mean Im 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 ps I have never had Kannada as a language as I never lived in the country during my schooling what ever little that I know is through my friends to which he goes to the extent of saying that if u cant speak Kannada I can suspect you View this post on InstagramA post shared by Salmanyusuffkhan salmanyusuffkhanWhen he tried to communicate in Hindi the immigration officer warned that he could suspect him for not knowing KannadaAlso Read Been a rough couple of days Shivangi Joshi reveals being diagnosed with kidney infectionHe added I told him that I know my nations official language Hindi and my mother tongue is Hindi why should I know Kannada I asked him again suspect me for what and he says I can just suspect you for anything I told him TRY ME And got a little louder and repeated TRY ME thrice To which he kept quiet I told him that if uneducated people like you continue to live in this country this country will never grow To which he just kept his head down and murmuring Trying to report this incident to the airport authorities but no one seems to be guiding me well this is wht I get to represent my city and win national accolades that I have to prove my self to these uneducated Brutes Ps I am a proud bangalorean but what Ive faced today is unacceptable you should always encourage people to learn any local language not demean them for not knowing it and pulling your parents name into it Meanwhile apart from dance shows like Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Dance India Dance Salman has acted in films like Wanted ABCD Anybody Can Dance and Street Dancer 3DThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever