India, Dec. 31 -- 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 HT 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 wa...