Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan enthralled the students of Yale University as he came to the Ivy League institution as a Chubb Fellow, one of its top honours.
A crowd gathered outside the Shubert Theatre early in the afternoon and as the day went on the line snaked around the corner.
Fans travelled from as far as Alabama and California to join with members of the New Haven and Yale community to hear Khan speak to a capacity audience of about 1,700.
Khan charmed the crowd as he spoke to them about success and failure and how to live life to the fullest. He encouraged young people to find fulfillment in creativity, to learn to laugh at themselves and to never become cynical about their lives.
'Failure is a fiendish friend that can lead to success by teaching one to be pragmatic, to work harder, and to be true to oneself,' he said, adding that the true strength of one's friendships is tested in the face of strong adversity.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained at New York's White Plain airport for over two hours on Thursday. He arrived in New York on a private aircraft to visit the Yale University, where he was scheduled to give a lecture.
King Khan, as he is called in the Hindi film industry, while speaking to the students at the university said that he was "detained" at the airport "as always happens".
The Bollywood actor, who has been named a Chubb Fellow, was accompanied by Nita Ambani, owner of Mumbai Indian IPL cricket team and wife of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani. The Ambanis' daughter is a student at Yale University.
The reason for detaining him was not very clear, but sources said that everybody else were cleared by the immigration officials immediately, except SRK who was stopped for over two hours before being cleared.
Reports said that Khan was very, very upset at the episode. Yale University officials had to contact the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Department at Washington, when they come to know about his detention.
In 2009, too, Shah Rukh was detained at the Newark airport and was released after being grilled for over two hours.
