Dhadak day 1 collection: Janhvi Kapoor, Ishaan Khatter's film bags Rs. 8 crores

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Directed by Shashank Khaitan, Dhadak is the Hindi remake of Marathi blockbuster Sairat.
Directed by Shashank Khaitan, Dhadak is the Hindi remake of Marathi blockbuster Sairat.

New Delhi : The much awaited Dhadak starring Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter had a great start at the box office. The film with newcomers in the lead role is spreading love across the nation. It’s Janhvi's Bollywood debut while it is Ishaan Khatter's second film. On the first day itself, Dhadak banged the box office meter to score Rs. 8.71 crores which is almost a crore higher than what Student Of The Year (2012) made on Day 1 of its release, stated trade analyst Taran Adarsh.

Dhadak's first day collection has been dubbed as "heroic" and oh, the film also broke a record previously held by the Dharma movie mentioned above. "Dhadak takes a heroic start... Rarely does a film starring absolute newcomers open so well... Day 1 is higher than Student Of The Year [Rs. 8 cr]... Fri Rs. 8.71 cr," Mr Adarsh shared.

Producer Karan Johar, who is known to have given entry ticket to several star kids in Bollywood have launched Janhvi with Dhadak, For now, he is excited to the is doing well in the theatre. On Twitter, the Karan wrote: "Glad to have our own record broken previously held by SOTY!! Thank you to all the beating hearts for giving this beating heart so much love!" Earlier in 2012, Dharma Productions' released Student Of The Year, with which introduced Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan in the Bollywood world.

Coming to Dhadak, let’s get a snippet of the movie-

Directed by Shashank Khaitan, Dhadak is the Hindi remake of Marathi blockbuster Sairat. The film was released on July 20 and received interfering reviews. However, Janhvi and Ishaan's performances as lead were appreciated by critics and movie-buffs. In a review, Saibal Chatterjee writes: "No matter how hard the two actors endeavour to win us over with their vulnerabilities, which they do a pretty good job of harnessing, theirs is an uphill task."

Janhvi once told the IANS news agency "Sairat is really special and iconic film but we are trying to show that story through new perspective. We just want one chance from the audience to watch the film as we have made this with lot of hard work and honesty." And now, it looks like audiences have listened to Janhvi and indeed given Dhadak a chance. Theatres are packed up and tickets may run short. This weekend, let your heart say ‘Dhadak’ with Janhvi and Ishaan. What’s your saying?