Shah Rukh Sticks to IPL Remarks, Says Sena Activities ‘Undemocratic’

Bollywood actor Shar Rukh Khan, who drew flak from Shiv Sena for favouring inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in IPL with Sainiks tearing posters of his latest movie ‘My Name
Is Khan’, has said that he is not apologetic about his remarks and that Shiv Sena’s activities are ‘undemocratic’, reported PTI.

Shah Rukh said that every Indian would agree that India is a ‘good country’ and that ‘everyone is welcome as a guest’, adding at the same time that too much importance was being attacked to the words of ‘just an actor’, report said.

“It makes me feel that activities like this are unhealthy, undemocratic, its insensitive but this is the world is and you can only say what you believe in and stand by it and hopefully I will have the strength to do so,” Khan was quoted as saying.
Shah Rukh Adheres to IPL Remarks, Says Sena Activities ‘Undemocratic’

He made the statement in response to query about the Shiv Sena protests back home.

“As an Indian I’m not ashamed, guilty or unhappy about what I said neither am I sorry,” he was quoted as saying.

After the IPL3 auction in which none of 11 Pakistani cricketers were picked by any franchise, Khan, who is also the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, had expressed his views against snubbing the Pakistani cricketers and said that he would take in cricketers from across the border if his team had an empty slot.

Shiv Sena activists reacted angrily terming it an issue of patriotism, burnt the posters of his upcoming film ‘My Name is Khan’, and took their protest to his bungalow in Mumbai.

The party has threatened to not allow the screening of the film, unless the actor apologises.