Actor Shah Rukh Khan has been in the industry for more than two decades now. He is not only an Indian superstar, but is also globally renowned for his stardom. But yet he was detained at an American airport and interrogated for long hours, just because his name was 'Khan'.

Ironically, at the time when he was there to promote his film 'My Name is Khan', he was detained on ground for the fact that the police there were on a lookout for a terrorist with the same name.

After bearing the humiliation on foreign soil, SRK was targeted as a Muslim for supporting Pakistani cricketers and rallies were carried out against him in India as well.

SRK recently revealed that all of this had hurt him immensely. In his recent interview with the magazine 'Outlook Turning Points', SRK stated what it meant 'Being a Khan' post 9/11.

Apart from the interrogations abroad, SRK confessed that it were the in-home attacks that had hurt him more than anything else. "I sometimes become the inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India," he said.

"There have been instances when I have been accused of bearing allegiance to our neighboring nation rather than my own country – even though I am an Indian, whose father fought for the freedom of India," Khan further added in the interview.