Mohit Suri on wrapping up 2025 with Saiyaara: When I started, few people could believe a romance could get such numbers

Filmmaker Mohit Suri talks to us about how 2025 was a year for filmmakers, where multiple genres worked- from animation, devotional to action and romance.

Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara emerged as the highest grossing romance film in the history of Indian cinema, and catapulted newcomers Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda to overnight stardom.As we wrap up 2025, he tells  City he wasn’t anticipating these numbers, “You can never plan these things. No one goes out there saying ‘I want to make a blockbuster’, you just want to make a good film. For me, the numbers meant a great sense of validation. When I started off, very few people could believe a romantic film could do the kind of numbers it’s supposed to do. I wanted to make a film, in a world where everyone was making films about action, killings, which I too have done in the past. I wanted to be dramatically different, and if I wanted to stand out, I had to make a different film.”