When actor Aamir Khan emerged from his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament, he found a sea of admirers waiting, camera phones aloft. This was expected, of course, but several women security officers blithely threw caution to the winds, rushing up to be photographed with the actor. Most of them handed over their cameras to Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha MP and daughter of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who good-naturedly complied, commenting that she could soon charge for the service after the fifth cellphone was pressed into her hand.
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