Indian Pop Star appears in Burqa

Himesh Reshammiya, is an Indian Pop Star who also composes Bollywood music & has given 36 hit songs in one year. Recently he has also appeared in his first film, " Aap Ka Suroor" which released today to the audiences.

It seems that to get publicity for his first film he has apparently caused a furor after dressing in black burqa while visiting a Muslim Shrine.

As per Reshammiya, he dressed in burqa to avoid being mobbed by his fans, while seeking blessing for his new film.

Although an official at said shrine suggested that Reshammiya dress in the burqa, the president of the shrine, Peerzada Sibli Qasim said that the star was "ridiculing Muslin religious tradition".

Singer-turned-actor Himesh Reshammiya apologized for offending religious sentiments after visiting a Muslim Sufi shrine disguised in a burqa.

``If I have committed a mistake, I apologize for it,'' he told reporters outside a shrine dedicated to a mystic Islamic Sufi saint in Rajasthan.

Reshammiya, who is a Hindu, had gone to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti to seek blessings for his debut feature film ``Aap ka Suroor,''. But huge crowds gathered in front of the shrine to watch him and he wasn't able to enter the shrine, the report said.

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