In a tweet, he said: "I fully understand and respect security with the way the world is, but to be detained at US immigration every damn time really really sucks," read a post from Shah Rukh's official Twitter handle on Friday morning (IST).
Precise details of when and why he was detained were not known. But Bollywood sources have said the actor was in Los Angeles.
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On a positive note, he wrote: "The brighter side is while waiting caught some really nice Pokemons."
This is not the first time that Shah Rukh, one of Hindi film industry's most successful stars, has been detained in the US.
IANS