Shah Rukh Khan - Shiv Sena issue

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has stood firm over expressing his disappointment that no Pakistan cricketers were picked for the 2010 Indian Premier League.

Khan owns IPL cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders and his comments angered Hindu hardline party Shiv Sena.

The lucrative eight-team IPL Twenty20 competition will start on 12 March and is staged over 45 days.

The party subsequently tried to disrupt showings of the actor's new film My Name is Khan in Mumbai. His film is due for global release on 12 February.

My Name is Khan is about an Indian Muslim man with Asperger's syndrome, whose life in the United States changes after the 11 September terror attacks.