Shah Rukh Khan is rated as the biggest Bollywood film star in Germany

Screaming fans and high-pitched media coverage greeted Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan when he arrived here for the screening of his blockbuster film "Om Shanti Om" - or OSO, as locals call it - at the ongoing Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival.

The huge and almost uncontrollable turnout at the Berlinale of both German and non-German fans Friday night also goes to prove that Germany is shedding its negative perception of what Germans once described, not without contempt, as "exotic films", the "dance-and-song musicals" produced by "Mumbai's dream factories". More>>>