Don't need unsolicited advice, we are safe in India: Shah Rukh Khan

Actor Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday described a controversy centered around him as "nonsense" and said an article he wrote recently titled 'Being a Khan' was being misquoted. "I would like to tell all those who are offering me unsolicited advice that we in India are extremely safe and happy. We have an amazing democratic, free and secular way of life," he said, adding, "I implore you all that please read the article." "I don't even understand the basis of this controversy. Ironically, the article I wrote - yes it is written by me-  was actually meant to reiterate that on some occasions my being an Indian Muslim film star is misused by bigots  and narrow minded people who have misplaced religious ideologies for very, very small gains. And ironically the same has happened through this article once again," Mr Khan shared at a press conference in Mumbai. In the piece in Outlook Turning Point, the 47-year-old had written, "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 added, "There have been occasions when I have been accused of bearing allegiance to our neighbouring nation rather than my own country - this even though I am an Indian, whose father fought for the freedom of India. Rallies have been held where leaders have exhorted me to leave and return what they refer to my original homeland," In reaction, over the weekend, Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, who India holds responsible for its worst-ever terror attack, said the star could move to India. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said on Monday, "He (Shah Rukh) is born Indian and he would like to remain Indian, but I will request the government of India (to) please provide him security. " The Indian government was cutting in its response. "We are quite capable of looking after the security of our own citizens... let him (Malik) worry about security of his own," Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters in New Delhi. Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari said, "The interior minister of Pakistan would be better served by bothering about the internal situation in Pakistan and really introspecting about the treatment of minorities there and see what they can do to improve the condition and the plight of their own minorities." Source: NDTV