The Marrakesh International Film
Festival met with an euphoric crowd of more than 50,000 people at the Jemaa
el-Fna square for several hours as fans awaited Shah Rukh Khan to grace the
event’s red carpet. The star seemed so moved that he braved his own security to
wave at the thousands gathered there.
Indian cinema has a huge
following in Morocco and throughout Africa, which also caused crowd incidents
when in 2007 Shah Rukh Khan, accompanied by Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and
the late Yash Chopra visited France, a country where a large population of
Moroccan immigrants has taken residence.
Prince Moulay Rachid later invited the star to a
royal dinner and presented Shah Rukh Khan with the Medal of Honour of Morocco
for his contribution to cinema.
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