Aamir Khan’s debut television show Satyamev Jayate received such an overwhelming response that its official website crashed within minutes of the end of the show due to enormous traffic.
“Thank you for your overwhelming response to ‘Satyamev Jayate’. Unfortunately our servers have crashed due to the traffic, will be back soon,” said a messge on its official site, satyamevjayate.in
The show, which covered the sensitive topic of female foeticide in its first episode, went on air Sunday on Star Plus and Doordarshan, was received well. Just after an hour of telecast, the show received as many as 2254 tweets appreaciting the subject line.
 Satyamev Jayate  also fetched rave reviews on Twitter , occupying the “top five trends” on the social networking site.
Even before Aamir could wrap up the episode, which focused on female foeticide and was aired on Star Plus and Doordarshan from 11 a.m, 2,254 tweets were notched up within an hour on the microblogging site.
From Bollywood celebs to the person on the street, to activists like Kiran Bedi, all gave the show the thums up.
This is what the Twitterati had to say:
Kiran Bedi: I would give full marks to Aamir Khan’s TV Prog ‘Satyamev Jayate’, very creative, evidence based and emotionally connecting, inspiring! Thank u.
Preity Zinta: Watching Aamir Khan on ‘Satyamev Jayate’ discussing female foeticide. I love this effort from him and thank him as a woman.
Dia Mirza: I always wanted something like this on TV. Thank you Aamir for stirring people(Sic).
Farhan Akhtar: Satyamev Jayate. A show with a heart.
Boman Irani: Good show Aamir.
Shabana Azmi: Aamir Khan’s show can bring a revolution. Thoroughly researched, covers all aspects, touches emotional chord n forces us to reexamine ourselves.
Neha Dhupia: Watching Aamir Khan address the unreal problems of real India. I am a fan as always.
Mandira Bedi: A reality show in its truest sense. Some stirring and troubling realities of our times.. I applaud Aamir Khan.
Kabir Bedi: Aamir Khan’s 1st episode of ‘Satyamev Jayate’ exposes killing of baby girls, India’s darkest secret. Brilliant.
Mini Mathur: Aamir Khan I am so proud of you. You have put your stature to use in the most straight and compelling way. TV has woken up to a new era.
Kabir Khan: For an hour this morning. Television stopped being the idiot box.
Maria Goretti: An hour well spent watching ‘Satyameva Jayate’. Aamir Khan take a bow, poignant issues, heartfelt and emotional content TV never felt as good.
Others too hailed the show.
Mitali Chatterjee: The concept of Female Foeticide…needs every voice it can get .. thank you Amir #SatyamevJayate.
Jaydeep Sarkar: Bravo, Aamir Khan! Thank you for not wasting the nation’s time on game shows/ cultivating greed. THIS is how stardom should be used.
Dinesh Dasa: Aamir Khan is providing a best example of how stardom earned could be returned back 2 society 4 societal cause.
awesome show for the first time…..
The show was awesome and was promising to. I am praying with botem of my heart that people my change their views after this.I think you should write a letter to the goverment.Wish u all the best.
aamir u r so instrumental 4 change.wid more efforts u ll transform india from land of superstition 2 d land of logic n feelings.
aamirkhans idea is really a great one to change the thoughts of people towards the most happening things in our society .i really like this show .and really inspiring.and thank aamir for putting foward a show like this.thank you