Firstpost at FICCI | Mohit Suri to reunite with YRF post 'Saiyaara' success: 'When I met Aditya Chopra again...'

Love has never travelled this far, this fast. After creating history as the highest-grossing love story in Indian cinema, Saiyaara has now swept & claimed the #1 spot on Netflix’s Global Weekly Top 10 Non-English Films list. In only 3 days from launch, the film has stormed into the Top 10 charts across 15 countries (including Australia & Canada), clinching the #1 spot in nine of them.

Directed by Mohit Suri and produced by Akshaye Widhani, CEO of Yash Raj Films , the film starring Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda is more than a romance — it’s a symphony of music, miracles, and emotions that audiences everywhere are falling for. What India embraced on the big screen is now being celebrated across continents on Netflix, making _Saiyaara_ a global anthem of love. Along with Hindi, the film is also available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Indonesian, Malay, Spanish, Thai and Zulu.

Speaking at the 25th edition of FICCI Frames, the director confirmed he’s reuniting with Yash Raj Films.

Mohit Suri revealed, “When Adi sir (Aditya Chopra) and Akshaye saw the rough edit, it was really bad and quite loose (laughs). It was 3 hours and 15 minutes long. This was 2-3 months before the release. I said, ‘Let me cut it down’. Yet, Adi sir was really confident and said, ‘Even if this film opens to Rs. 4-5 crores, it will still do Rs. 100 crores’. What he meant is that he liked the film so much even in its rough format. Something had worked in the film.”

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He added, “ “To be honest, we are planning to do a film together again. When I met them again, I said, ‘This is a newer set of audience that is coming up to me. I have never had 60-year-old aunties telling me, ‘Beta, jeete raho. Bahut acchi picture banayi’ (laughs). I only know the guy who comes up and beats his chest. I have done that in my previous films. The only advise I have got from my seniors was that ‘You cannot keep trying to put a formula and what worked for the audience. You can only start afresh’.”