European summer for SRK's MNIK

Karan Johar is working doubly hard for the European release of his blockbuster, My Name Is Khan, which starred Shah Rukh Khan. "We are entering the second phase of the release of My Name is Khan. The film will be released in markets such as Poland and Germany in a week.

After that, we will also go ahead with a more mainstream release in the US around May 7," says the director, calling his film India's "first truly global movie". Karan had earlier said he would be deleting most of the Wilhelmina flood part from the movie for the Western audience.

But now, he reveals that he had actually shot much more of that but had cut out a sizeable portion of it even for the Indian prints.

"So, if you thought that part bored you, be thankful we didn't show all that we shot originally," he quips.

We wonder if MNIK manages to smash records in Europe as well.