Calcutta, Oct.30 :    Calcutta, Oct.30:  It's 11.30, Friday morning, Metro cinema. Minutes to go for Mohabbatein, first day, first show. Standing before a life-size cut-out of Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan is an energetic gang of 15, sporting white head-bands with SRKFC written on them. Pulling out a garland of red paper flowers, they drape it around Shah Rukh's neck, with a look of adoration. The pujaris? Members of the Shah Rukh Khan Fan Club who booked 250 tickets for the opening show - for themselves, friends and family - and 'still fell short'. Tuesday, October 31, five days into Mohabbatein, is the club's third birthday. And its star hasn't shone brighter. It started small, with a handful of members from north Calcutta. Shah Rukh's fortunes have fluctuated at the box office, but the support for the group has been steadily on the rise, and has positively soared with the strong opening of his Diwali release. 'We have received at least 30 calls in the past two days, some even from out of town,' exclaims an excited Mohul Dutta, co-initiator of the fan club, and a second-year student of South City College. 'There was a hero who believed in his fans. There were his fans who believed in their hero...' goes the banner, outside Metro. 'Shah Rukh is the boy-next-door, who dreams our dreams,' explains Arnab Roy, initiator of the club. Now they have two chapters, North Zone, with over 60 official members, while the newer South Zone has 25. The membership fee is Rs 700, with a monthly charge of Rs 50 ordinarily or Rs 100 when a Khan flick hits the halls. The fan club's ambitions aren't bound by city limits either. Arnab has been corresponding with Aziz Mirza and Beena Satna of Dreamz Unlimited. He's planning to go to Mumbai next month to secure Shah Rukh's 'official endorsement' for the club. The fan club is not only about worshipping king Khan. Their last 'social service' project was 'Love Mission - 2000', organised with Shuvam, a child group theatre, with the proceeds divided between Shuvam's under-privileged children and Missionaries of Charity. But these days, it's a love mission of a different kind. 'We would like to have mobile vans with quizzes on Shah Rukh's life, giving away memorabilia from Mohabbatein,' declares Mohul. Vikas, a Class XII student, who has seen Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge 53 times, says he'll turn up at Metro at least once a week as long as the movie's playing. 'For us, Mohabbatein is like Ramayana or Mahabharata. It's an epic of love, and Shah Rukh is our god...'.