12 February,2010 08:13 AM IST | | Agencies
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's presence at the Berlin International Film Festival acknowledges that he has fans not only in Mumbai, but all over the world.
The online tickets for his My Name is Khan (MNIK) were sold out in five seconds there.
People who phoned five minutes after ticketing opened were told they were way too late. The tickets were auctioned on e-Bay for 1,000 euros (Rs 60,000) each.
Fans had not slept all night to keep their places in the queue despite the minus temperature. Those who arrived at 6 am were in tears.
Jenny Watkinson, assigned the SRK department at the Berlin film festival , said, "I've never seen anything like it.u00a0
The online tickets for MNIK were sold out in five seconds." The film premieres with a red carpet in Berlin today at the Berlinale Palast theatre on Potsdamer Platz.
Meanwhile at 4.40 am (IST), SRK tweeted, "-6 temperature. i just want to say that the warmest hugs & love i feel is with everyone here in berlinale.i feel hot in germany cos of u all.
