I've also now joined the club. Thanks for this post and all the comments with additional information. The card is so goddamn beautiful !
Took 5 days to get the card in hand .
Btw it was the fastest , and most easiest account opening I've ever done.
Also , the person who helped open the account said if the customer created their pan card as e-pan i.e they applied online for their pan instead of doing it via physical form, there was high chances of failure. I was lucky but he said quite a lot of folks were having issues with e-pan.