'Om Shanti Om' hysteria builds up in Germany

Although more than a month remains for Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Om Shanti Om to hit the theatres, hysteria is building over the film in Germany.

Shah Rukh Khan has a substantially large fan base in Germany, even though the fans there may not understand a word of Hindi. The dubbed version of his home production Main Hoon Na was very well received in Germany.

And now, SRK fans in Germany are eagerly awaiting ‘Om Shanti Om’. As many as ten thousand fans have reportedly sent a petition to the director of the Berlin Film Festival, requesting the screening of ‘OSO’ in the next fest.

A media report quotes the movie’s director Farah Khan as saying that the movie’s official website has got at least two lakh hits and posts from Germany, France, Russia, Austria and Poland.

Responding to the demand, decision has already been taken to release ‘OSO’ in Germany alongside its worldwide release on November 9. So there won’t be any need to screen the film at Berlin Film Fest because the fest comes in February 2008.

On the other hand, Farah Khan has reportedly asked the film’s distributors, Eros International, to release the movie in Russia as well to tap a wider market.

Apart from this, a German magazine called Rapid Eye is coming up with a book on the making of ‘OSO’, media reports say.

‘Om Shanti Om’ is set in two time periods – 1970s and year 2007. The movie has SRK playing a junior artist in 1977 who falls in love with a famous heroine. But their love remains unfulfilled. The second part of the film shows SRK reincarnated as a superstar in 2007.

‘OSO’ introduces newcomer Deepika Padukone as SRK’s heroine.

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