New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) : Actors Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra were offloaded by Air India officials from their scheduled flight to Mumbai after they delayed their boarding and allegedly indulged in promoting their upcoming movie at Indira Gandhi International Airport's terminal area with fans.
Officials said the incident was reported late last night after both the actors reached the airport and got their boarding passes to fly to Mumbai in the Air India flight number AI-317.
Post the security check, the duo were seen mingling with fans in the duty-free area of the airport to promote their upcoming film "Baar Baar Dekho", the officials said. They said both the actors were asked by airport officials to board the flight scheduled for 9:40 PM but they kept delaying the flight.
Finally, sources said, the airline decided to offload them at about 10:45 PM as other passengers complained about the delay in departure. However, Air India officials said the Bollywood actors were not deplaned, as they were issued boarding passes but "they chose not to travel as part of their own decision".
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Michael Noronha, mysore
Thu, Sep 08 2016Good decision. People who obey the rules should not be punished at the cost of those who flout rules. Celebrity on the silver screen cannot be celebrity everywhere.
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Peter, KSA
Wed, Sep 07 2016Bollywood stars, who bare to earn money have a feeling that they are super people from Mars. I wonder how their parents, brothers etc. watch them bare. Only for the sake of money ? AI should have left them behind and stick to their schedule.
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Roy, Dxb
Wed, Sep 07 2016Don't blame AI ..this lady (Katrina) is so arrogant and ignorant..
Once My friend told while she was flying with KFA, crew woke her up during landing , and this dumbness head screamed at crew !
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Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait
Wed, Sep 07 2016Kapil Sharma already did the promo of their forthcoming film last Saturday.
Stars are increasing in numbers these days but hardly we could see a good actor.
Why Airport authorities/security is allowing such melodrama to take place in restricted area. There are other avenues to promote their films.
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R Mallar, Kasaragod/ Dubai
Wed, Sep 07 2016If the passengers were told that Katrina will be doing a "kala chasma" dance in the plane, they would not have minded delays!
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S N BANGS, Thannirubhavi
Wed, Sep 07 2016WHY AI waited for one hour inconveniencing other passenger
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Alphonso Rodrigues, Udupi
Wed, Sep 07 2016Both these individuals do not know acting. Katrina Torque is just cashing on the fair skin adulation of urban desi Indians, no talent, less cloths. Sidharth,, never heard of him. Hats off to AI for booting these 2.
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Vincent Rodrigues., Frazer Town,Bangalore
Wed, Sep 07 2016It is a good decision because all the passengers need to maintain time and other regulations if the want. to fly
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PEDDU, MANGALURU
Wed, Sep 07 2016THE STARDOM IS FADING DAY BY DAY !
EVEN THEY DO ANY CIRCUS TO KEEP THEM IN THE MARKET ! POOR CHAPS EVERYDAY STRUGGLE !
COMMON MAN IS VERY HAPPY WITH DHAL AND CHAWAL
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Sachidanand Shetty, Dubai/Mundkur
Wed, Sep 07 2016I like it….but they should have the same guts to show the door for our Politicians too irrespective of party they belong to!!!!
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readerwriter007, pune
Wed, Sep 07 2016at least now we are woken up. Good decision. Let's adopt these strict rules to all sectors like politicians, celebrities, corporates... anybody... none should be entertained... automatically there will be an awareness and improvement.
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shan, dubai
Wed, Sep 07 2016Good decision ..... Why can't they implement same rule for politicians????
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Mark Dcruz, Mangalore/Doha
Wed, Sep 07 2016Air india is under loss,
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John Tauro, M'luru / Kwt
Wed, Sep 07 2016Still AI is one of the major international airlines catering to the largest number of destinations across the globe.
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A. S. Mathew, U.S.
Wed, Sep 07 2016India's deity worship of the movie stars-politicians etc are total unheard in most of the countries of the world.
Actually, in other countries, the movie stars and politicians will act more humble before the public and display less shining in the public.
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clippy, Mangalore
Wed, Sep 07 2016Good job by Air India. All are equal. Politicians also should be treated same way.
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Mw, Dubai
Wed, Sep 07 2016It's a part of their promotion....it's intentional...
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Vishal, Mangalore
Tue, Sep 06 2016Very good action by Air India officials. Please show the same kind of treatment whenever a minister also delays a flight.
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Ranjit, Udipi
Tue, Sep 06 2016treat them equal and not on expense on other passengers. once even dilip kumar traveling on plane and all the time he trying to present himself as a star to next seated passenger. latter on it learned co-passenger is none other than jamshedji tata. what film stars think themselves god only knows. sometime money speaks.
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Joseph, RAK
Tue, Sep 06 2016Rules and Regulations are for all.
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Jossey Saldanha, Jersey City
Tue, Sep 06 2016Next Politicians ...
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veera pinto, mangalore
Tue, Sep 06 2016airlines please follow the schedule unless there is charter flight for the actors. Will you wait for the non-actors??? you must be very cruel even for the honest reasons.
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John R Lobo, Kaikamba / Dubai
Tue, Sep 06 2016They should offloaded at 9.40 pm....why the hell AI staff delayed for 1 hour....???? Why officials became slaves of Public celebrities ALIAS Would be Politicians
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Anand Kumar, Mangalore
Tue, Sep 06 2016Wow! Time for people to show these "stars" that they are only human beings after all. Treat all passengers equally whether it is a star or vip....whatever that means. For me, every passenger who has paid the fare is a vip.
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KRPrabhu, Kudla/Bengaluru
Tue, Sep 06 2016Well done AI.......Katri and Siddharth are only actors and doing their profession for earning ganji like us.....
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