VEER - ZAARA was nominated for the 55th German Berlinane Filmfestival and win the hearts of the German Nation (mines too ;-) A nation called cold and always busy (and this is not really a lie) becomes deeply emotional when Yash Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan is in the air ...

The German Press write in the most popular newpapers:

"[Yash Chopra's] passionate pleading for international understanding, female emancipation and romantic love is the art of overwhelming cinema in ultimate perfection - an exhilarating, unrestrained sentimental, terrifically composed symphony of colors, images and sounds, which integrates highly accomplished and quite rarely song sequences, which are so characteristic for Indian cinema, and makes us cry our eyes out. Compared to these three hours of opulence, entertainment and heart rending passion 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Titanic' appear almost dry and boring."
(TZ München, one of most popular fastidious newspaper)

""Shah Rukh Khan is fighting, loving, singing and suffering as a pilot between India and Pakistan." "VEER & ZAARA does not judge one-sided; no country gets cursed, both religions, Hinduism und Islam, are valued respectfully."
(Die Welt, one of the best political newspaper)

"A great melodrama" "In a way every scene starts off at zero, in every scene you experience a small world of its own, due to excessive camera movement." "The emotions are as intensive as in the great novels of the 19th century, from 'Wuthering Heights' to ‚The Count of Monte Christo'."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung, the most popular fastidious newspaper)

"Nowhere else a scene like this is imaginable, when Veer approaches Zaara once more right before the wedding: the circling camera, the pouring rain, the glistening light and the mostly powerful music potentise the act of self-abandonment to a cosmic story."
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the most popular business newspapers)

"An unscrupulous cinema-pleasure, a feast of great emotions" "Such a movie would also be a good deed between an Israeli and a Palestinian, between a Turk and a Kurd, in northern parts of Ireland or North Korea. Bollywood is utopistic. This time its message is not."
(Der Tagesspiegel, the most fastidious political magazine)