Celebs and airport fiascoes

Veena Malik joins the long list of celebs who have had problems at the airport

 

Television and film producer Ekta Kapoor was detained at the airport here on her way back from Bangkok Sunday night for carrying undeclared goods and released after she paid duty, an official said. 'She was intercepted while she passed the green channel for carrying undeclared goods. She was released after paying a penalty of Rs.50,000,' Deputy Commissioner of Customs (Airport) Sameer Wankhede said.

 

Two years back, SRK got detained at Newark airport in NJ for being a 'Khan'. Last week the Mumbai airport authorities detained King Khan for carrying excess baggage. Blame it all on the shopaholic 'khandaan'.

 

Aftab Shivdasani was detained at the Tel Aviv airport as the officials questioned about his frequent visits to the Gulf countries.

 

Actress Anushka Sharma was detained at Mumbai Airport for carrying excess jewellery.

Like Anushka, Bipasa Basu too was detained for not declaring the jewellery she was carrying. Bips had to pay Rs 10,000 as tax for the gold and other jewellery she was carrying.

 

Minissha Lamba was detained for several hours by custom officials at Mumbai Intl airport for jewellery not declared while she was returning from the Cannes festival.

Celina Jaitley had a very troublesome experience on her way home from a trip to Maldives when she had to stop over at Colombo for a connecting flight en route Mumbai. She had to spend 11 hours in a small rented room at the airport. Years back, Celina was booked by airport authorities for abusing the airport manager.

 

Blame his fair complexion, the NY airport officials were not willing to believe that Neil Nitin Mukesh was an Indian.