New Delhi: Bollywood celebrities like Anupam Kher and Riteish Deshmukh have welcomed the "new road" - Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is India's biggest tax reform since Independence. Whereas actors like Aditi Rao Hydari have trashed it.

The reform was rolled out past midnight on Friday in the precincts of the hallowed Central Hall of Parliament to usher in a new indirect tax regime.

Here is what the celebrities had to say: 

* AnupamKher: Chashmeka number jab badaltahaitohek-do din lagtahai adjust karnemein. Bahut he saadhaaran/uttamvyakhyapradhaanmantriNarendraModi. (When the number of your specs change, it takes a day or two to adjust. What a simple but apt sentence by Prime Minister NarendraModi. GST tryst).

* RiteishDeshmukh: GST.... a new road. One step at a time and we will get there.

* AditiRaoHydari: For all the love I received from the Tamil audience. The taxes and GST will be the death of cinema. Tamil film industry. Stand united. Dear GST... welcome to our lives! please be kind and please be fair... and please be reliable!

*  GoldieBehl: GST a new start! One nation one tax no longer will we be in the dark about where our money is going n unified rates all over the country.

* MugdhaVeiraGodse: Start of the GST invoices and it's paid. One nation one tax.GST or New India.

* AshwinMushran: And there it is. Rest of the world on GMT. India on GST! If GST is the enterprise... then ArunJaitley is Jean Luc Picard.

* RanvirShorey: It's taken us 70 years to get to one nation, one tax! Next stop: One nation, one civil code. Jai Hind. GST.