Salman Yusuff Khan alleges Bengaluru immigration officer harassed him for not knowing Kannada

Choreographer Salman Yusuff Khan has opened up about an unpleasant incident at the Bengaluru airport on social media. He revealed that an immigration officer pulled him over for not knowing the local language, Kannada.

He took to Instagram and shared a video about the incident along with a note. His note reads, '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 to which he continues to speak in Kannada and shows me my passport and points out my name and my birthplace and my father's name and his birthplace and has the audacity to tell me that .. you and your father are born in Bangalore and u can’t speak Kannada .. to which I replied .. that being born in Bangalore doesn’t mean I’m born with the language …

He added, 'I could be born in Bangalore and traveled 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 .. whatever little that I know is through my friends ) to which he goes to the extent of saying that .. if u can’t speak Kannada I can suspect you …'

'I am a proud Bangalorean but what I’ve faced today is unacceptable … you should always encourage people to learn any local language not demean them for not knowing it .. and pulling your parent's name into it,' he concluded.

The netizens are extending their support to Salman Yusuff Khan in the comment section.

Salman Yusuff Khan gained recognition after winning the first season of the dance reality show, ‘Dance India Dance’ in 2009. He made his Bollywood debut in 2013 with Remo D’Souza’s dance drama ‘ABCD: Any Body Can Dance’. He has also starred in a few films, including the 2020 release ‘Street Dancer 3D’.

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