Mumbai cricket officials on Friday announced a five-year ban on Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan from the city’s main stadium after a late-night row with staff at the grounds.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has filed a police complaint against Khan, co-owner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders, over the heated altercation on Wednesday night at Wankhede stadium.

“The ban was a unanimous decision,” MCA president Vilasrao Deshmukh told reporters in the city. “Action will be taken against whoever breaks the law.”

The MCA says Khan should not have entered the ground after the game, saying he misbehaved and used foul language when officials asked him to leave. They also tried to stop a group of children including Khan’s daughter from playing on the field.

“Even for us, there are rules of who should come in and who cannot,” said Deshmukh.

Khan, one of the biggest names in Bollywood, has denied accusations he was drunk or behaving illegally, saying he became angry when officials at the stadium abused him and “physically manhandled” the children.

The MCA’s parent body, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, will look into the “unprecedented case”, said its chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty.

“Never have we seen this kind of behaviour at any time on any (cricket) ground in India,” he said.

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Bollywood celebrities on Friday reacted to the ban imposed on Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan from entering Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium for the next five years.

The celebrities took social networking site to express their thoughts. Here’s what the celebs posted.

Suhel Seth: Banned SRK from a stadium? Even if they allege bad behaviour, it’s stupid! Do MPs get banned from Parliament when they fling microphones?

Juhi Chawla: If today SRK were to get upset and quit the IPL I wonder if there d be any people watching the matches .. In wankhede or any stadium !!!

Pritish Nandy: Banning can the last resort. Here, it is the first. A quick fix solution for everything. Movies, cartoons, books, songs, posters, now SRK.

Anubhav Sinha: Sorry traveling so delayed response… I heard Srk is banned from the stadium. So child manhandling is officially allowed there?

Raj Kundra: SRK Banned from a stadium?? Ridiculous punishment for a father protecting his children! I can see many celebs boycotting this stadium!

Anurag Basu: Srk’s behavior is completely justified ,I’d have smashed their heads if it was my daughter.

Karan Johar: Srk is one of the best fathers i know….and protective about every child…he was being just that….a protective parent!!!

Celina Jaitly: Speaking even as a new mother of twins When it comes to ones children a parent will go to any length to protect them ,srk is a good dad .

Sujoy Ghosh: Read about the SRK incident. I think @iamsrk was very decent about the whole thing. I’d have ripped their heads off if it was my daughter.

Anjana Sukhani: He’s a gentleman….unless provoked badly nobody reacts….

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – The raven-tressed heroine stares adoringly at the handsome Mughal prince, who gazes lovingly back at her – from where they are painted on a Mumbai wall.

The mural of the classic Bollywood film “Anarkali” is the brainchild of a pair of movie buffs, who hope to give Mumbai a distinct Bollywood identity through a series of murals, aiming for the iconic appeal of the “Hollywood” sign in California.

The mural from Anarkali, a 1953 film about a doomed love affair between the prince and a commoner, is just the first of many the pair, and their Bollywood Art Project, hope to create all over the city.

“Mumbai is the home of Bollywood, but it has no Bollywood flavor,” said Ranjit Dahiya, who started the project with his friend, Tony Peter. “We wanted to change that.”

They zeroed in on a wall in the posh suburb of Bandra, home to several Bollywood stars, and asked for permission to paint the 6 meter (20 foot) Anarkali mural, fully expecting to be rebuffed.

“But they had no problem at all,” Dahiya told Reuters. “They happily handed over their wall to us for fourteen days and let us paint.”

Over the weekend, the Art Project also screened the film with the wall as a backdrop, hoping to educate youngsters and help them relive Bollywood’s golden past.

“We have a lot of indications around Mumbai of what Bollywood is today, in terms of posters of latest releases, but there is no indication of where we came from,” Peter said.

The group aims to paint several such murals and put up posters all over Mumbai in the coming year, culminating in celebrations in May 2013 to mark 100 years of Indian cinema.

Their next project is an 18 meter (60 foot) tall depiction of popular 1970s actress and dancer Helen.

Peter says he hopes to recruit more of India’s poster painting stars into the project, indirectly helping workers skilled in the once-flourishing art of hand-painted, larger-than-life posters, who have been struggling in recent years.

Both Dahiya and Peter have regular day jobs in design but say their project has become an all-consuming hobby.

But in a city notorious for its lack of civic sense and where most walls are adorned with tobacco and betel leaf stains, aren’t they worried about the fate of their masterpieces?

Dahiya says no.

“I can’t sit and worry about people spitting on my art,” said the 32-year-old. “I’ve made it for the people, so how they treat it is up to them.”

(Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Tony Tharakan and Elaine Lies)