New York, Aug 17 - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's questioning at Newark Liberty International Airport by immigration officials was the talk of the annual India Day parade here. The parade is held to celebrate India's independence.

Even before the 29th parade started at Madison Avenue and 41st Street Sunday, Mehal Kadakia, 26, a business analyst, and two friends had spent the drive to the city discussing whether Khan should have been singled out, New York Times reported Monday.

'In my opinion, they were doing their job,' Kadakia was quoted as saying at a festival next to Madison Square Park after the parade.

'I'm sure as an actor travelling, he has a lot of luggage, and if that seemed suspicious, I'd rather have them check and make sure he's OK.'

Kadakia observed it's not as if being stopped at the airport in the post-Sep 11 world is new to anyone.

'I've been stopped many times,' he said.

Santripti Vellody, 30, a business development manager for a South Asian satellite television channel, said she was disappointed that one of India's biggest stars had been subjected to such blatant profiling.