Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara, starring newcomers Ahaan Pandya and Aneet Padda, has emerged as the surprise box office juggernaut of the year. The romantic drama, which opened to solid numbers with Rs 21.5 crore on its first Friday and ended its 1st week collection at Rs 172.75 crore. The film witnessed remarkable growth over the opening weekend and sustained well through the weekdays, it averaged over Rs 20 crore for the first six days of its release..
In just 8 days, Saiyaara has raked in Rs 190.25 crore at the Indian box office, overtaking Akshay Kumar‘s Housefull 5 (Rs 183.38 crore) to become the second highest-grossing film of 2025 so far. Housefull 5 had a battery of stars alongside Akshay like Abhishek Bachchan, Fardeen Khan, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Sonam Bajwa, Jacqueline Fernandez , Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff. What makes Saiyaara’s success even more impressive is that it features newcomers in the lead and belongs to a genre that rarely cracks the Rs 150 crore mark in today’s action-heavy market. With the second weekend underway, trade experts are now eyeing a possible Rs 250 crore lifetime run. The film is second to just Vicky Kaushal ‘s Chhaava which went on to make Rs 585.5 crore in Hindi and overall Rs 600 crore across languages. The dream run for Saiyaara is going to continue thanks to the postponement of Ajay Devgn and Mrunal Thakur’s Son of Sardaar 2 which was slated to release on 25th July. In fact even the newer releases like Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps have paled in collection earning just over Rs 5 crore in front of Saiyaara which on second Friday earned Rs 17.50 crore. For Mohit Suri, this marks a career resurgence, while Ahaan Pandya and Aneet Padda have instantly become the industry’s most talked-about newcomers.
