Hysterical Fans Greet SRK At Berlinale, ´Om Shanti Om´ Sold Out In Minutes!

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The huge and almost uncontrollable turnout at the Berlinale of both German and non-German fans on Friday night, goes to prove that Germany is shedding its negative perception of what Germans once described, as 'exotic films', the 'dance-and-song musicals' produced by 'Bombay's dream factories'.

Shah Rukh, whose 'Om Shanti Om' is being screened in a section called Berlinale Special, acknowledged that he may be a 'big movie star' in India but he definitely was 'humbled' by the atmosphere at the Berlinale.

SRK was, ostensibly, touched by the spontaneous and emotional welcome given to him by the German fans.

The critics and the entire German media, right from the sensational Boulevard tabloid, Bild, to the conservative broadsheet, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, described it as unprecedented that tickets for 'Om Shanti Om' were sold out in less than seven minutes.

A surprised Shah Rukh quipped, "I thought they must have mistaken the movie title!"

Indeed, the tickets were completely sold out after only seven minutes. According to one employee at the Berlinale ticket office, there had been at least 20,000 queries for tickets through the Internet.

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