- 6/7/2025
Mumbai, June 07, 2025 (ANI): In an exclusive interview with ANI, Director Mohit Suri, Music Director Tanishk Bagchi, Lyricist Irshad Kamil and Kashmiri debutant, Musical artists Faheem Abdullah and Arslan Nizami shared their views and about their upcoming project that is a film named Saiyaara. The title track of the film was produced by Yash Raj Films (YRF).
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00:00I remember that when I signed this film, I said that it was a childhood dream for me to become a director after I saw Dilwale Duranye.
00:09It was a dream that we saw in the real world.
00:12Fahim never thought that two children from Kashmir will come to this platform and sing for YRF.
00:20It's just a surreal experience for both of us and it's really overwhelming.
00:24I didn't realize that I could make a romantic song.
00:29It's a dream.
00:35The best thing they've said.
00:37It's a dream, a story, a mind is a pain.
00:41And when a creative mind is in your own, if it's not happening, they are not a creative mind.
00:47They are Yes Men.
00:49Exactly.
00:50I remember going and telling my wife that I got my hero of my film.
00:54No, I'm actually really excited because, yeah, well, the hero, heroine, even though they are new, my writer is a new person.
01:04The people sitting on this thing are all doing it for the first time.
01:08So, me and Tanishq are working together for the first.
01:11I mean, we worked with it before, but all three together on one song, we are doing it together.
01:16In my childhood, when I was going to Diwali and all, when Yajji and Adi sir are released, I used to go to watch a love story in the theatre when their films used to release and it was always a dream.
01:36I remember that when I signed this film, Adi sir said that it was a childhood dream for me to become a director after I saw Dilwale Duranye Lejaenge.
01:46And I think that was something that always attracted me to it.
01:48So, when this film was made, I was written and it wasn't a producer.
01:52At that time, everyone was making an action film in that mahal.
01:57I didn't know people would even want to make a love story, especially someone.
02:02So, when Akshay Vidani, my producer met me and said, would you like to direct a love story?
02:07Do you have a love story for Yash Raj films?
02:10I told him I have this.
02:12I didn't know whether they would take it or not, but the fact that they're making it with newcomers with so much belief is a dream come true for me.
02:19So, I feel like a newcomer again after 20 years of making movies and making 14 films.
02:25I can say I'm making my first film in Yash Raj, which is what I've always started out to go out to make films for.
02:32So, while all of them feel very proud that it's their first film, I feel like a newcomer myself.
02:37I don't know about others, but some people do things by design.
02:43I've never done that.
02:45When I was making a film in Vishesh film and I was making thrillers,
02:51I felt that when I was shooting a song or an emotional scene or a love scene actually,
02:57I was enjoying that part.
03:01I think Irshad bhai will understand this more and even as music directors,
03:05sometimes when you're making different songs or you're making something creative,
03:10it's when the thing you're creating starts talking back to you,
03:14you feel like it's not about what time is happening or what time is happening.
03:19So, for me it was shooting a love scene and stuff like that.
03:22So, when I got some blockbuster success with Murder 2,
03:26I practically begged Mukesh Ji and Batsav to make a love story and then it became Ashri Ki.
03:32Since then, I think life has just made me realize what you, I think with experience,
03:39you realize what you don't want to do rather than what you want to do.
03:43And I'm not saying there's any genre that I don't want to do,
03:45but I just enjoy making this genre.
03:48I've never planned that this goal today that I want to reach,
03:53and I just go with the flow.
03:58And I think the instinct of, like how you make a song,
04:04I don't think anyone has come for a meeting saying,
04:11that you're going to make a song today,
04:13you're going to make a song today.
04:15I don't think careers should be made like a song,
04:19where you all meet together and then jam and make a product,
04:22make a film,
04:24and then let the people who have to sell it, let them sell it.
04:28Your job is to just make it good and so that people can consume it.
04:34I think this was our life-long manifestations,
04:38which we are here today.
04:41And I'm ever so grateful to Sir and Tanish Dada
04:45for actually believing in that we could,
04:48we would be able to do this.
04:50And you know, exactly in that taste,
04:52what Sir wants us to know.
04:55I don't think that we had so much pressure on.
04:58I think that that grandfather had taken himself
05:00and the pressure was coming from Sir.
05:02I have no idea about that.
05:04But we were very at ease.
05:08And I think we were just being true to the emotion,
05:12just like we were asked to be.
05:14I've always been a fan of Sir and his poetry.
05:18I try to write myself.
05:21And for the first time,
05:23to be able to sit in a room with him,
05:26him sitting right across you,
05:29and he's telling you some things in his experience.
05:32And how do you relate with them?
05:35Because we look up to the people who are sitting with us
05:40in the panel today.
05:41I think that,
05:43at that time,
05:45people stop thinking,
05:47and try to live in that moment,
05:49that this is for real,
05:51that I am with them at this time,
05:54in the association,
05:55or I am sharing with them,
05:57with them,
05:58which we have always kept on a pedestal.
06:01It was a dream that we have seen in the real world.
06:04I have never thought about it.
06:06I have never thought about it
06:07that two children,
06:08from Kashmir,
06:09will come to this platform
06:10and then we will sing for YRF.
06:12And Mohit Sir is directing.
06:14And I will be a part of,
06:16I will be a part with Tanish Dada
06:18and Irshad Sir doing lyrics for this song.
06:20So it's just a surreal experience for both of us.
06:23Meera,
06:24Pahla,
06:25Jo Gaana,
06:26Barish.
06:27Wo,
06:28Sarke Sati Tha.
06:29Aap, Girlfriend Me.
06:30Or,
06:31Mujha,
06:32Andar se oho,
06:33realisation nahi ta ki,
06:34mein koi romantik song bana sakta ho.
06:36Teke na?
06:37Kyunki,
06:38konferenze trahi ho ta hai.
06:39Karta tha,
06:40Pele bhi.
06:41Bhaana.
06:42But, wo, konferenze dhenne wala koi tha he he.
06:44To, wo, konferenze menea.
06:45Sari,
06:46menei mentor he.
06:47And,
06:48uh,
06:49Uske baad,
06:50minhe actually,
06:51sikha,
06:52You know,
06:53Romance kase bantah hai.
06:54Zindig menea bhout romantse hai.
06:55Thik hai.
06:56Personally,
06:57Zindig menea,
06:58family menea romantse hai.
06:59Tiare bhi ho ta hai.
07:00But, wo, gaane menea kasei emote karu,
07:01Woh, mujhe sarne zikha hai.
07:03To,
07:04Sahihara ka bhi,
07:05Waisa hi history.
07:06Jab yagana menea,
07:07Tien saal pele menea,
07:08Inse mila tha.
07:09And,
07:10Menea inke ganae sune to,
07:11Mujhe bhout pasandha hai.
07:12Kyunki,
07:13Mujhe laga ki,
07:14Ismeen koji,
07:15Koii,
07:16Koii,
07:18Aasa nini hai.
07:19Koii,
07:20Bao mudesa nini hai.
07:23To,
07:24Mujhe,
07:25Koii,
07:26Koi,
07:27Koi,
07:28Koi,
07:29structure to find us to find out and tell a director like me you have to give
07:39it to Tanish for that and I'm not an easy guy to please. But I'll tell you that he came from here.
07:44I absorbed something and the emotion of the emotion that I got into. So if the song liked
07:50that, then I'll give it to him. And you know, it's a legend. It's a tough job. I'm giving it
07:59in the 16th over and the run rate is that I'm laughing that I need it and that I'm laughing
08:05that he's laughing that it's the same. I thought, how did he match it? And I've seen some films
08:16before. Okay. It's the first film. But this film is so special because we were
08:23first. It was a part. Normally, what happens when I'm doing a film, they say that I want
08:29to do a promotional film. I don't know what it is. I'll make a film. It was a part
08:35of this film. So for me, it's the first time that we can connect with a film.
08:41That's the best thing they've said. There are many things. There are things. There are
08:46things. There are things. There are things. And when the creative mind is
08:48meeting with you, if you're not talking about this, then there are no
08:51creative mind. They are yes men. Exactly. Yes, sir. And the things we love
08:57them. Yes, they can do it. They can do it. They can do it. They can do it. And the things you've
09:01said about the romantic film. In action film and romantic film, there's a big difference
09:08that comes to music. We Indians by default are music lovers. Yes.
09:16We are all singers. We are all singers. You believe that we are all singers. Right?
09:28Sure, I am. And when they come from for the time I do this, I like it. Yeah I would
09:31say that. Yes. Yes, even I like it. Yes, I have the levels on for the time.
09:36You have the audience from
09:48that. That Anita's song would be connecting to that and one of them, you can see it
09:54That means, it's closed and closed and closed.
09:58Right.
09:59And this, like Tanishq, Fahim, Aslan,
10:04when the importance of the difference of the difference,
10:07the difference of the difference of the difference of the difference.
10:12The difference of the difference of the difference of the difference is not.
10:15It's a little bit of a ratio.
10:18Now, who are between two inches?
10:20Who are they? Who are they?
10:23these, these, these, these, these, these, these, these things are made this thing that is a fundamental, romantic, romance is released. Right?
10:32So I, as a writer, I think that every romantic song, is an age-less song to be a moment to be able to be a song.
10:49But we also listen to the old songs, we listen to the other songs, we listen to the romantic songs.
10:56We listen to all romantic songs.
11:00So, every romantic song can become an age-less song.
11:04So, everyone has a effort as a writer, as a music director, as a director, as a singer,
11:12that you can add a lot of sweet, sweet, that it will be a lot of sweet years and years.
11:20And in these songs, particularly in the plane, this song will also leave you slowly and slowly.
11:30What do you think? And the audience thinks how much change has been made in listening?
11:36Look at me like this, there are some things that happen in any way, but it doesn't change any way, emotions don't change any way, love doesn't change any way, love doesn't change any way, our truth doesn't change any way, the truth doesn't change any way, the truth is always true, right?
11:56If we're in glaciers, then as you might be in glaciers, ourselves only after we spend the same time together, or however, we could be in glaciers or at least in the coupling, we could pursue our emotions ourselves in that way, whatever you may have, whatever you are doing in the audience, all you have more thaness you are, the right to you.
12:18we have talked about this a little bit earlier
12:21that we have thought about this
12:24that the Gen Z audience is listening to this
12:28but no, there is nothing
12:30that is not the real emotion
12:33that is not the heart of it
12:36and the heart of it will be given to each language
12:39that is the fact is
12:41adding to this whole Gen Z and all that stuff
12:46as I said, Pishat bhai said
12:49PR, it will change the heart
12:53but that is the pain
12:55there will be butterflies in the stomach
12:57there will be excitement
12:59there will not sleep in the night
13:02same conversations
13:04maybe it will be my first film
13:07or you are the fourth generation of newcomers
13:10I am working with
13:11starting from Imran Ashmi to Kunal Kemo to Kangana
13:15I did the second film
13:17but
13:18Adhiyan Sumanthad and Aditya and Sidaat and all these people
13:23and now this is a lot of films
13:25I don't even know which generation
13:27but
13:28in every generation
13:30the insecurities
13:32they want to be successful
13:34want for love
13:36want for acceptance
13:38so
13:39the fear of Shraddha Kutha release
13:42the fear of Anit
13:45the fear of Imran Ashmi
13:48the fear of Ahan Pandey
13:51that doesn't change
13:53I think that doesn't change
13:55yeah
13:56there is a little
13:57the fear of
13:59that we are online
14:01we are online
14:02but PR is the same
14:03you have to be left and right swipe
14:05you have to be left and right swipe
14:06your heart will break
14:07the heart will break
14:08the heart is there
14:09the heart is there
14:10the center and left
14:11and it is broken
14:12there
14:13and it is not online
14:14so I feel nothing
14:16nothing
14:20if you can see
14:21the same songs
14:22they are making new songs
14:24maybe when their parents fell in love
14:27but today
14:29people are listening
14:30so as I said
14:31a song never gets outdated
14:33a great melody doesn't
14:34I don't think
14:36even
14:37love stories get outdated
14:39so I have changed something
14:41maybe their clothes
14:43changed
14:44but
14:45but
14:46it is not
14:47interesting
14:48observation
14:49I remember
14:50that
14:51I have seen
14:52in an acting workshop
14:53that
14:55a man
14:56does
14:57the camera on
14:58and
14:59the scene
15:00tells the actor
15:01and
15:03the camera
15:04starts
15:05and
15:06does
15:07the actor
15:08does
15:09very good
15:10and
15:11the director
15:12does
15:13and he said
15:14now your acting workshop starts
15:15now your audition starts
15:16when he turns it off
15:17I think that is something I followed all my life
15:19so
15:20while I saw him
15:21you know
15:22every possible
15:23audition
15:24our casting director is
15:26Shanu Sharma
15:27who showed me all the things
15:29both the boy and the girl
15:31I
15:33I
15:34said
15:35I
15:36I
15:37think that was the audition
15:38that
15:39I went to Bombay
15:40city
15:41and
15:42one night
15:43went out
15:44and
15:45I
15:46thought
15:47he was not doing
15:48work
15:49he was not trying to impress me
15:50he was not trying to
15:52try
15:53I think that's when
15:54I required for this film
15:55about how the person behaves on the side
15:57so
15:58one night
15:59we painted the town red
16:00we went
16:01I think we
16:02went from Bandra
16:03to
16:04Andheri
16:05to Andheri
16:06to town
16:07to town
16:08to Bandra
16:09came home at 5-6 o'clock in the morning
16:10when I was going and telling my wife
16:11that
16:12I got my hero
16:13I think
16:14when
16:15you're not doing
16:16work
16:17and you're not judging
16:18if
16:19you can do that
16:20I think that was the character of my film
16:23The process
16:24was very simple
16:26not that
16:27we made a lot of thought
16:28we made a song
16:29like I said
16:30the emotion
16:31doesn't make sense
16:33the rawness
16:34doesn't make sense
16:35so
16:36the composition itself
16:37was good
16:38I produced it
16:39and sir
16:40he monitored it
16:41and how it is
16:42and how it is
16:43after the scene
16:44I feel like
16:45this song
16:47is a collaboration
16:50that
16:51we didn't think
16:52that we should be a hit song
16:54it's not that
16:56we should be a hit song
16:57it's not that
16:58we should be a hit song
16:59we should be a hit song
17:00before it
17:01but
17:02it was not the thought
17:03it was the thought
17:04that we should be a good romantic song
17:06that we should be a romantic song
17:07like
17:08like
17:09I made a song
17:10like
17:11this song
17:12is my first song
17:13so
17:14we will have a lot of emotion
17:15and
17:16the rest
17:17of it
17:18is
17:19to blend the visuals
17:20and
17:21and
17:22Arsalan
17:23that
17:24was
17:25the song
17:26that
17:27was
17:28very good
17:29so
17:30Arsalan
17:31I'm from Kashmir
17:32we both are from Kashmir
17:33so
17:34my
17:35only one thing
17:36is
17:37what is happening
17:38you really need to observe
17:39what is around you
17:40you really need to hear
17:41what's around you
17:42so
17:43Sayyara
17:44also
17:45tell me
17:46the song
17:47the song
17:48is
17:49one song
17:50so
17:51I'll tell you
17:52a story
17:53I'll tell you
17:54one song
17:55was
17:56a song
17:57it's called
17:58Dardema
17:59which means
18:00it's called
18:01that song
18:02that song
18:03I made four years ago
18:04but I didn't crack it
18:05it was a lot of time
18:07there were many takes
18:08and many melodies
18:09but
18:10I wasn't self-satisfied
18:11with that
18:12so
18:13there's a place
18:14in my house
18:15where I sit down
18:16there
18:18and
18:19there
18:20I went
18:21and sat there
18:22and
18:23I didn't think about the song
18:25I just thought
18:26what's happening
18:28and
18:29there was
18:30a song
18:31that was
18:32a song
18:33that was
18:34a song
18:35that was
18:36a song
18:37that was
18:38so
18:39coming back to this topic
18:40that you just observe
18:41what's happening
18:42today
18:43what's happening
18:44you'll get
18:45anything
18:46so
18:47that's it
18:48thank you very much
18:49thank you very much
18:50thank you very much
18:51thank you so much
18:52thank you so much
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