Suniel Shetty recalls being held at gunpoint by Los Angeles cops after 9/11; says, “I had to go down on my knees. They handcuffed me” 9 : Bollywood News

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Suniel Shetty recalled being held at gunpoint by Los Angeles cops after 9/11 while shooting for Kaante in the US. In a recent interview, he shared that the incident happened at his hotel, where he was forced to kneel and was handcuffed.

Suniel Shetty recalls being held at gunpoint by Los Angeles cops after 9/11; says, “I had to go down on my knees. They handcuffed me”

Suniel Shetty, speaking on Chanda Kochhar’s YouTube channel, revealed that he was held at gunpoint in Los Angeles after 9/11 due to his appearance. He recalled arriving in LA for Kaante when the attacks happened and initially mistaking the news footage for a movie.

Suniel Shetty stated, “Me being taken at gunpoint, because I had this beard. We shot after a few days and I was walking into the hotel and I went into the lift and I had forgotten my keys. So this American gentleman was there. He kept looking at me and I said ‘Do you have the keys? Because I have forgotten mine and my staff has gone out.’ He ran out and created commotion. So the cops came in, from the street, gunmen and they said ‘down or we shoot.’”

Suniel Shetty recalled being in shock when Los Angeles cops handcuffed him after 9/11, mistaking him for a threat due to his bearded appearance. He said, “I didn’t know what was happening. So I had to go down on my knees. They handcuffed me,” he recalled and said that it was at this point that the production crew came over to intervene, and one of the hotel managers, who was a Pakistani man, also intervened to clarify that Shetty was an actor. “And that’s when the production came, and one of the managers was a Pakistani gentleman in the hotel, he came there and he said, he is an actor. All that we’ve been through that time, it was insane. I didn’t know what was going to happen next because there was so much commotion and my beard was that jawline beard.”

Suniel Shetty recalled that his simple gesture for a key was misunderstood, leading to the intense situation. “I thought he didn’t understand the language, maybe he didn’t speak English. So I gestured key, lift, it worked against me.”

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