Leading Bengali film
actress Rituparna
Sengupta was harassed for hours at the Toronto Pearson International Airport despite having a valid visa and other travel documents, the celebrated artist alleged Saturday.
Sengupta, now in Canada to attend a Banga Sammelan, broke down during her ordeal Thursday as she was kept waiting for five and a half hours as the authorities even asked the actress to leave the country.
Sengutpa said she reached the airport Thursday evening along with a wheelchair-bound aunt.
“The immigration officials started quizzing me. They wanted to know why I was visiting Toronto and asked me to name the companies which were paying me.
“I told them I had gone there to attend the film festival of the Banga Sammelan which is kickstarting with the movie ‘Mukti’ in which I have acted. But they were not satisfied,” she said. (IANS)