Mohit Suri recently opened up about how he called Mahesh Bhatt before shooting a dramatic scene in Saiyaara as he was unsure about its tone. Mohit revealed that Mahesh just cut him off in between as he was telling him about the scene and said a “couple of swear words” to him. Mohit has helmed multiple films backed by the veteran filmmaker including, Aashiqui 2, Hamari Adhuri Kahani and Zeher among others.
Mohit was shooting a scene where the character of Ahaan Panday, Krish, gets violent with his alcoholic father. Speaking about it in an interview with News18, Mohit said, “There’s a scene in Saiyaara where Krish’s father lands up at his workplace with the police, and he gets violent with him and pushes him. I remember I was staging that scene in the conference room of Yash Raj Studio with the actors, and I got a bit dramatic myself. I came out of the room and suddenly saw the whole staff was looking at me because I was screaming and sh0uting inside. I think I got into the character.”
Mohit was confused if he is being too dramatic with the scene and losing his sense of style while working with YRF, the studio that backed the romantic-drama. “7 am the next day, I was going to shoot the scene. I gave a missed call to Mahesh Bhatt. He’s up at 4 am. So he called me back. I said, ‘I’m feeling unsure. They’re very nice people here. I’m getting a little dramatic.’ He has no idea about my script. All I told him was the scene in which the son gets violent with his father because he’s an alcoholic,” Mohit said.
He added, “Bhatt sahab just cut me off. He said a couple of swear words to me — that’s him. I didn’t realize my profile picture was of my son’s hand in my hand. And he just said, ‘The way you’re holding your son’s hand in the closeup, the emotion you feel for your son, no matter how you shoot this scene, it’s never going to have a wrong emotion. The father-son bond is too pure for you. How can a person who has a DP like this even ask me this question? Go shoot it the way you want.”
Saiyaara was released in theatres on July 18 and has turned out to be the second-highest grossing films of the year.
