‘Saiyaara’ directed by Mohit Suri gave two new stars to the industry overnight, in the form of Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda. The film was the highest opener ever for a love story with newcomers. Eventually, it ended up making more than Rs 300 crore at the domestic box office. The success of the film came out of nowhere and completely disrupted the industry. Infact, trade experts have stated that many big stars got sleepless nights due to the success of this film with newcomers and that’s how insecure the industry is actually. While Taran Adarsh claimed that certain industry members were having “sleepless nights” over the film’s success. Komal Nahta added that a prominent male star was “visibly nervous” after learning that the numbers were genuine and “not fudged in any way.”
Now Mohit Suri was asked about this and he addressed the reactions on the film. The ‘Aashiqui 2’ director said, “The plan wasn’t to disrupt the industry. The idea was to disrupt my own life. I’d made a sequel film before this, and I didn’t make a good film. Suddenly, everyone was ruling me out. You have to understand, if you’ve been in the industry for 17 years, and you make a sequel film with stars and it doesn’t do well, people want to rule you out. I’ve never been there. I was always the young guy on set. A lot of actors who are getting sleepless nights probably ruled me out.”He continued, “The disruption was my own life. I did it my way. Everyone can clearly see that it looks like my kind of film. If other people have got disrupted of it, so be it.” Mohit revealed that after Ek Villain Returns underperformed, some films were taken away from him. While he didn’t directly name Aashiqui 3, he has previously acknowledged that Saiyaara’s script began as that project. His goal, he said, was to avoid getting trapped in making “packages” and instead “go organic.”Komal Nahta, also speaking with Faridoon, shared just how widespread the disbelief was. “I didn’t take the actor’s name so as not to embarrass them. But whatever I wrote, that he is spending sleepless nights, that he is constantly on calls asking if the numbers are accurate, every word of that article is genuine, I swear. The only detail that I have misrepresented is the number of films that person has done, but only to save them from embarrassment.”
