For a long time after seeing Spielberg’s movie The Terminal, I thought it was an urban legend.

However an article in the Times of India titled Indian ‘Tom Hanks’ is now British

led me to dig deeper into google and lo and behold, its a true story.

BBC Airport exile reluctant to leave

Here is another account of the story.

PS. The pictures are from the website above. There is no refence to the source of the picture. The filename implies that this is a Reuters photograph; used without permission.