Srinagar: Movie lovers in Jammu and Kashmir, where cinema halls remained shut for 33 years, are rejoicing the release of Christopher Nolan's latest movie Oppenheimer and as per trends on the first day Srinagar's lone multiplex registered record sales on Friday.

Srinagar's only multiplex is sold out for the next three days, making Oppenheimer the biggest release in Kashmir after Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan, reports NDTV.

Even before the film was released tickets at Srinagar's INOX - the only multiplex in Kashmir- its tickets got sold out, the Indian news channel reported.

The official Twitter page of Inox Srinagar posted: " A remarkable cinematic milestone as 'Oppenheimer' becomes the first Hollywood movie to achieve a full house at INOX Srinagar." '"Oppenheimer" has captured the hearts of Kashmiri cinephiles," read the tweet further.

Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, and thereby ushering in the Atomic Age.

Cillian Murphy stars as the titular character, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer's military handler, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Other members of the supporting cast include Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.