‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ has got a Thumbs Up from the audience. The paying 'junta' has lapped up the films with both hands and the opening has been better than expected. Though it had earlier seemed that terror attack and relatively lesser hype for this Yash Raj production would be a deterrent towards the collections, the film's showing as the first day came to an end has been more or less positive.

The film took a much better start than ‘Chak De India’ (which had seen around 50% collections on the opening day) though it was below 100% opening of ‘Om Shanti Om’ (as expected, since it was a Diwali release and came with a much bigger hype).

However, there are two factors that should result in Aditya Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan and Co. grinning from ear to ear:

a) The film saw house full sign all over towards the evening and night shows on Friday.

b) 'Junta Janardhan', the ultimate power, has been unanimously gung-ho about the film. Of course, for some patrons, the film isn't as huge as they thought, but then it has been mainly because of the 'YRF-Adi-SRK coming together' expectations factor which has proven to be the stumbling block.

Bollywood Hungama met up some people coming out of theaters on Friday and this is what they had to say about the film:

Anupa Abraham (29, Software professional)

Really, it didn't quite matter to me if ‘Rab Ne Bana De Jodi’ was directed by Aditya Chopra or Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Watching a film which has Shah Rukh Khan in the lead is a good enough reason and I am glad that I saw the film on the first day itself. Yes, there were apprehensions since I didn't have much clue about what the film was all about, though I did have a hint around Shah Rukh's character going through a makeover. In the end, I came home smiling because of the heartwarming feel of the film. Anushka is nice but well, I am a Shah Rukh Khan fan and it was his presence that mattered.

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