Mumbai (PTI): After braving a dull first half in 2008, Bollywood is egarly awaiting the outcome of 'Jaane Tu..' and 'Love Story 2050' at the box office as the much-hyped movies, marking high-profile debuts, hit the screens on Friday.

Trade pundits are watching the performance of 'Jaane Tu..Ya Jaane Na' and 'Love Story 2050' which will decide the fate of debutantes Harman Baweja and Imran Khan.

With the first half of 2008 not providing much fireworks at the box office, trade analysts are pinning hopes on these two films to lead the way in the second half.

Trade sources feel 'Jaane Tu...' a comparatively low budget film would prove to be a tough competitor to 'Love Story 2050', a futuristic sci-fi film made with a huge budget of 10 million USD.

'Jaane Tu..' has seen much higher advance bookings than 'Love Story 2050', sources added. 'Jaane Tu...' is giving 'Love Story 2050' a stiff competition at the box office if the first day collections are any indication.

Liberty and Maratha Mandir, the single screen theatres in Mumbai screening 'Love Story 2050' said the first day collections were about 70 per cent. Even in the suburbs, at multiplexes like 'Cinemax', the collections were about 70 per cent. 'Jaane Tu...' had a slight edge with 80 per cent collections. While at 'Fun Republic' the collections of 'Jaane Tu...' were 50 to 60 per cent and 'Love Story 2050' was about 25 per cent.

Theatre owners are confident that evening shows will go housefull.