Shahrukh Khan to shoot superhero film in Miami

Actor Shahrukh Khan is reportedly set to arrive in Miami the first week of January for two months of shooting for his next film, RA-1, an action flick in which Khan will play a superhero.

The choice of location comes as a surprise since Khan said last August that he wasn’t eager to return to the U.S. after he was detained and questioned by immigration officials at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey while he was en route to an Indian independence celebration in Chicago. Khan, who is Muslim, was also visiting the U.S. to promote his upcoming film, My Name is Khan, which is about racial profiling of Muslims in the U.S. The incident made headlines worldwide and outraged many Indians.

My Name is Khan is expected to release in February, when the actor will presumably be in the U.S.