Ajay Devgn shared this picture. (courtesy: ajaydevgn)
New Delhi:
Ajay Devgn and R Madhavan’s Shaitaan have opened on the ticket counters in double digits. The Vikas Bahl directorial, on day 1, minted Rs 14.2 crore on the home field workplace, as per Sacnilk. The horror thriller witnessed an total 25.70 per cent Hindi occupancy on its opening day, the report added. The movie, which hit the theatres on March 8, additionally options Jyothika, Janki Bodiwala and Anngad Raaj in key roles. Shaitaan is collectively produced by Ajay Devgn, Jyoti Deshpande, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak. Shaitaan is the Hindi remake of Gujarati movie Vash, which was launched final 12 months in February.
It should be famous that Shaitaan marks R Madhavan and Jyothika’s on-screen collaboration after greater than 20 years. The 2 stars earlier shared the display house within the 2001 Tamil movie Dumm Dumm Dumm. Madhavan and Jyotika each expressed their pleasure about working collectively. In a dialog with the Free Press Journal, Jyothika mentioned, “Working with him in spite of everything these years made me understand how a lot the 2 of us have grown as actors. Again then, we performed the quintessential hero heroine within the movie, and right this moment, after we get solid in such character-driven roles, it makes me realise how far we’ve got come.”
R Madhavan added, “Additionally, 20 years in the past, we each have been romancing one another and in Shaitaan, you will notice her go all out to hurt and kill me. So sure, we certainly have come a great distance.”
Jyothika’s husband, Tamil celebrity Suriya, earlier shared a particular put up to have a good time Shaitaan. On Friday, Suriya dropped an image of himself standing subsequent to Shaitaan‘s poster and wrote, “To my girl! My accomplice, my power! It is a new starting once more with Shaitaan! Happy with every little thing you do! Numerous respect and love! Jyotika.
In his assessment for NDTV, movie critic Saibal Chatterjee gave Shaitaan 1.5 stars out of 5. He wrote, “The worry consider Vikas Bahl’s Shaitaan is supposed to be unsettlingly excessive. It’s aimed to have you ever squirming in your seats. However the execution of the scenes which might be ostensibly designed to terrify are typically terribly pedestrian and undermined irretrievably by done-to-death, near-risible strategies.”
