Baggage handler hero John Smeaton snubs Bollywood movie of airport attack

Hero baggage handler John Smeaton has turned down a role in a Bollywood movie about the Glasgow Airport terror attack.
Smeaton rejected the offer to star in Beyond Belief - made by Dundee businessman Tony Hussain - because he believes the idea is "tasteless".
The 32-year-old, of Erskine, Renfrewshire, who shot to global fame after grappling with airport terror suspects last summer, said: "I have spoken to Tony Hussain but I have told him that I'm not doing it because it's a bit tasteless."
Director Nileish Malhotra was due to begin shooting the multimillion pound song-and-dance thriller in Scotland this month.
Despite Smeato's comments, Hussain last week claimed he was still on board. He said: "He's going to play himself."
Smeato's snub comes as the Sunday Mail can reveal Hussain's controversial business history.
Behind the boasts, BMW car and designer suits, self-publicist Hussain, 42, has a chequered past.
He says he is an "entrepreneur, restaurateur, property investor, developer, business angel, screenwriter and occasional actor".
But the former bankrupt has a string of failed firms behind him and has served a seven-year company director ban.
Hussain, who ran Indian restaurants in Edinburgh and Dundee, says his firm SHK Property & Investments is backed by the Bank of Ireland and "makes the impossible, possible".
15/06/08 Marion Scott/Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK

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