Shaitaan premiere: Ajay Devgn poses with Yug, Suriya and Jyothika twin in black

Ajay Devgn and R Madhavan's Shaitaan have opened at the ticket counters in double digits. The Vikas Bahl directorial, on day 1, minted Rs 14.2 crore at the domestic box office, as per Sacnilk. The horror thriller witnessed an overall 25.70 per cent Hindi occupancy on its opening day, the report added.

The film, which hit the theatres on March 8, also features Jyothika, Janki Bodiwala and Anngad Raaj in key roles. Shaitaan is jointly produced by Ajay Devgn, Jyoti Deshpande, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak. Shaitaan is the Hindi remake of Gujarati film Vash, which was released last year in February.

It must be noted that Shaitaan marks R Madhavan and Jyothika's on-screen collaboration after more than 20 years. The two stars earlier shared the screen space in the 2001 Tamil film Dumm Dumm Dumm. Madhavan and Jyotika both expressed their excitement about working together.