Shahrukh Khan More Popular Than Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt
Shahrukh Khan is now confirmed as one of the most popular movie stars ever. The fact that SRK is bigger than Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt is testified by the phenomenal sucess of My Name is Khan overseas.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh says, “It has taken the biggest opening ever for a Bollywood film in the UK, and also in USA. This reiterates the fact that Shah Rukh is King in the overseas market.’’ The film has also taken several other foreign markets by storm. It has broken the record for the biggest initial for a Bollywood movie in the UAE. And is the first Hindi film to release in Egypt across eight theatres. Then, in the first week of March, the film will also release in nine theatres across Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
High on the praise he has received from the Indian and foreign media, an ecstatic Karan says, “MNIK is the first global film that has actually come from Bollywood. It has penetrated far deeper than the parameters of the diaspora markets and has found patronage in countries like Poland, German and Russia where no Bollywood films have found such a huge favour. We have already added 25 odd prints across the Middle East — Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, heartened by the phenomenal first week collections in UAE.’’
In Singapore alone, the film has done phenomenal business at the ticket windows which is a record for Hindi film. And the great word of mouth continues to keep it on top, says the local distributor. Australia and New Zealand have ended their first week collections with record ticket sales. In Hong Kong the film is running to packed houses.
What has warmed the cockles of Karan’s heart, though, is his recent trip to the prestigious Berlin Film Festival where SRK, Kajol and he walked down the red carpet. Reports say there were 3,000 ecstatic fans braving the minus 10 degrees temperature to participate in their moment of glory. Sources say that when Shah Rukh got the 1,800 lucky viewers who finally made it into the auditorium to dance to the Sajda number, he won these Germans over for life.
“We will be releasing the film in many other countries across Europe and America right till the month of June,’’ says Karan. “The actual assessment can therefore be made only after July, when the real numbers of the film start showing.’’ Karan is right. The film is being dubbed in German and Polish also so that the non-Hindi speaking SRK fans also get to enjoy MNIK. Read My Name is Khan review
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Posted by Starwin on 23rd February, 2010
Comments
how to choose the superstar?
realy srk is the no 1 actor in the world he is the best
hello come on..a tom cruise or brad pitt search in google throws more than 4 crore results…but srk yet to reach one crore hahaha
I just check on google and google show 9 crore result for srk and 3.5 crore for tom and 3.2 crore brad…………..Now try to laugh
SHAH RUKH KHAN… is the only name in Outer market of BollYWOod…he is the BEST, and MORE POWERFULL than tom cruse.
there is only KHAN that we know from BANGLADESH and he is SHAH RUKH KHAN.
Shahrukh khan always best i lovvvv u shahrukh
Tom cruise is the biggest star of them all.
Here are statistics for google search results :
127,000,000 for tom cruise,
64,800,000 for brad pitt,
37,700,000 for shahrukh khan.