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Indian Express
03-07-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
Suruchi, the Phogat who shoots: Rise and rise of India's latest teenage shooting sensation
As thick clouds of smoke, permeating from the Jhajjar power plant on the outskirts of the city, appear from a distance, the retreat from city life to the countryside takes place almost jarringly quickly. Wide highway roads make way for narrow, makeshift lanes and townships for large pockets of barren land. Where proper roads end and GPS navigation draws a blank. Locations need to be found the old-fashioned way, rolling down windows and relying on the kindness of strangers. The streets are deserted. And village elders head indoors to beat the scorching heat, and for a game of cards and hookah. It is here, in this quintessentially Haryana village, Sasroli, that the latest sensation in Indian shooting, Suruchi Phogat, began her journey. Only 19, she has been a standout performer both at home, and globally. At her very first ISSF World Cup, in Buenos Aires, she won gold in the women's 10m pistol event. She followed it up at the next two, in Lima and Munich, to make it three titles on the trot. In Lima, she pipped Manu Bhaker, double-medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, to the top step of the podium. Domestically, too, she's been turning heads, winning the National Championships, National Games gold and topping the selection trials earlier this week. Jetsetting international sporting champion she may be, but Suruchi feels most at ease in Sasroli. 'Whenever I have to take a flight, I wish that I could just close my eyes and reach where I need to go. Flying is not fun for me,' she quips. 'It's nice to be back home.' Her recent achievements underline positive trends for shooting. It has made sure that, just like in the previous three Olympic cycles, another promising teenage shooter has emerged. The fact that it is not an anomaly – that the latest world-beater comes in a category where India already has an incumbent Olympic medallist – speaks to the robust systems and deep domestic pool India has in this discipline. *** It may take a village to raise a medal-winner but, in this case, it was the painstaking efforts of one family. Suruchi's father, Inder Singh, had dabbled in wrestling and cross-country running during his time as a havildar in the army. He had been driven to push his children into sports. Initially, he was inspired by his neighbour – someone he described 'like a brother' – wrestler Virender Singh, who won gold at the 2005 Deaflympics and whose life inspired the acclaimed 2014 documentary, 'Goonga Pehelwan'. But an early injury, which saw Suruchi break her collarbone, made the family rethink their choice of sport. And once Inder gathered more awareness about sports shooting, he was convinced. 'We took her to the local akhada for training in wrestling. Everyone around wanted that to be the sport she pursued seriously. If she was not going to do that, I wanted her to compete in an individual sport, but one that is totally fair in competition,' Inder said. Inder eventually found the right place for Suruchi's early training. The catch was that the academy was in Bhiwani, better known as the nursery for Haryana's burgeoning boxers, being the hometown of Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Sing But the enthusiastic coach, Suresh Singh, and the good facility at the Guru Dronacharya Shooting Academy convinced Inder to make the daily journey of around 60 km, taking Suruchi along in a train from the nearby Jharli railway station to Bhiwani. 'The father-daughter duo were away every day for six to seven hours,' Suruchi's mother, Sudesh, says. She was the one who had to hold the fort at home, raising her younger son, Nishant, and working on their fields in Sasroli. 'But we would do it again if we had to,' she adds. *** About 15 km away from Sasroli is the village of Goria, on the outskirts of Jhajjar that borders the city from the other end of town. Goria is the hometown of Manu Bhaker, who became the first Indian female shooter to win an Olympic medal last year — and the first Indian to win two medals in one Olympics. That two of India's best young shooters grew up about half an hour away from each other, competed in the same category, and even trained under the same coach in their early years, is not an uncommon twist of fate. Haryana, for decades, has been a conveyor belt of world-class athletes across sports. It's an amalgamation of many things — hefty incentives, state government policies and a genuine sporting culture where every village has a Virender Singh who inspired a Suruchi. Despite the robust culture, shooting's rise in Haryana is a relatively new trend, especially considering that the entire region does not have a single state-sponsored shooting range. 'The growth has happened thanks to private ranges,' Suresh Singh, Suruchi's coach who worked with a teenage Manu, says. 'As an ex-Armyman, I opened this range several years ago. Back then there were a few like me, who invested money in facilities and offered training. With time, many of the local shooters did not go on to become international-level athletes, so they opened academies. Today, quite a few are open all over the state.' Suresh says the traits that attracted Inder to shooting are the same that motivate many of the other parents he interacts with, which is why the sport is picking up in the state. But without a government-run range, there is unlikely to be much involvement of shooters at the school level, which will keep much of Haryana's sports-inclined youth away from the big costs involved in this increasingly technical discipline. 'If a kid is expected to travel to Delhi or Dehradun for competitions, and has to afford an academy or build private ranges, naturally, not many will take up this game,' he says. *** Recently, ahead of her third successive World Cup in Munich last month, Suruchi sent a message to her coach back home. He believes it indicates exactly what explains her quick rise as one of India's top shooting stars. 'She told me she had seen one girl hit 99. She responded that she will not score less than 98. When I tried to tell her not to put so much pressure on herself, she said that anything less than 98 would not be acceptable to her,' Suresh says, adding that while technique can be taught and focus can be instilled, this level-headedness and self-belief cannot. Having worked with both Suruchi and Manu, the coach has often been asked to talk about their similarities. But he insists that there are very few. 'Manu is a total sportsperson. She took up all kinds of sports in school and her mentality is that of a competitive athlete. You can tell by the way she works on her fitness,' he says. But Suruchi, he says, has just taken to shooting naturally. There is very little else that distracts or attracts her. 'Maybe, since she is new to it all, that competitive and athletic side of her will come out soon. But at the moment, she just enjoys her game. The hours she spends at the range are a result of all the discipline her parents have put in her. But she does not see it as being hard work. She enjoys it,' the coach adds. She confirms her coach's perception of her, as a straight shooter in more ways than one when she is asked about competing with and being compared to Manu, failing to go into fawning praise or showing a lack of respect. 'I have always just found it easier not to care who I am competing against, whether it is at practice, national or international. I am now going to the national (trials) and the only thing I have in mind is meeting my own target. I have played in Dehradun before so I'm even more sure of what I need to do,' she said a few days before travelling to the Uttarakhand capital and topping the trial. *** Every time Suruchi returns from an international competition, the entire family travels from Sasroli to New Delhi to welcome her back. That includes her younger brother, Nishant, who has begun accompanying her to the range and has designs to become a shooter himself. Her mother says it became a happy ritual recently. 'We are just happy when she returns,' she says in front of the makeshift practice range, with paper targets, that her father made for her during the COVID lockdown. 'We have invested everything we have in her. Not just money. But we don't want her to feel like anything changes because of that, she likes to come home because things are the same here as they were when she was growing up.' When asked how they manage to create that environment, her mother comes up with an amusing example: 'We ask her to milk the cows!'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
TechCrunch Mobility: The cost of Waymo
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced late this week that it plans to streamline the Part 555 exemption process to make it faster for automakers that want to deploy self-driving vehicles built without human controls like a steering wheel or pedals. The letter sent to 'stakeholders' (meaning those companies working on AVs) is fairly opaque still. And manufacturers will still have to demonstrate that vehicles without traditional steering wheels, driver-operated brakes, or rearview mirrors provide an equivalent safety level as compliant vehicles and that the exemption is in the public interest. The main gist here is that the NHTSA contends the current Part 555 exemption process is not well suited for automated driving system-equipped vehicles and that it is a lengthy and complex process. In short: The agency wants to speed things up. In other federal agency-related news, Trump issued a few executive orders related to drones and fast-tracking supersonic travel. Side note: I see that my predictions (from last edition) that the Trump-Elon Musk fallout would turn into one of those on-again, off-again relationships was correct. Let's get into the rest of the news. Last week, I shared our scoop about Jony Ive's LoveFrom firm working alongside Rivian designers and a skunkworks team that would end up spinning out into Also, a micromobility startup. Well, a few more little birds have popped up to share a bit more and to clarify the relationship. I learned that the project was code-named Inder. Rivian actually applied for a trademark of the name Inder but later abandoned it. Sources also shared that while the LoveFrom team brought its industrial design expertise to the effort — and apparently a cool motor design — it was not involved in any UI/UX. Got a tip for us? Email Kirsten Korosec at or my Signal at kkorosec.07, Sean O'Kane at or Rebecca Bellan at Or check out these instructions to learn how to contact us via encrypted messaging apps or SecureDrop. JetZero, the Long Beach, California-based zero-emissions jet aircraft company working on blended wing airplanes, plans to build a factory in Greensboro, North Carolina. The company, which has backing from a variety of venture capital (like Trucks VC) and from strategic investors like United Airlines and Alaska Airlines, said it will invest $4.7 billion over the next decade on the project, The Wall Street Journal reported. Construction on the facility is expected to begin in the first half of 2026, with first customer deliveries in the early 2030s, the company said. There is an important detail in this deal: It includes more than $1.1 billion in state performance incentives that would be paid over nearly 40 years and are contingent on JetZero creating over 14,000 jobs between 2027 and 2036, Reuters reported. Mitra Chem, a battery material startup, raised $15.6 million of a planned $50 million funding round. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway, according to Obi, an app that aggregates real-time pricing and pickup times across multiple ride-hailing services. The company published what it's calling the 'first in-depth examination of Waymo's pricing strategy.' The TL;DR: Waymo's self-driving car rides are consistently more expensive than comparative offerings from Uber and Lyft — and it doesn't seem to matter. Waymo robotaxis became a symbol of the LA protests after imagery showing several driverless vehicles — with anti-ICE graffiti and slashed tires — on fire. Waymo removed its remaining vehicles from the downtown LA area and plans to pursue criminal prosecution of and collect damages from those who vandalized its robotaxis. The incident raises some important surveillance questions about how the numerous cameras and sensors on Waymo vehicles are used and whether it is providing camera footage to authorities to identify protesters. Waymo didn't answer our questions about that. June 22 is the big Tesla robotaxi launch day in Austin, Texas, at least according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Wayve and Uber announced plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London. This isn't happening right away, though, and the timing is notable here: The U.K. government recently announced an accelerated framework for self-driving commercial pilots to roll out in spring 2026, up from late 2027. Infinite Machine, the New York-based micromobility startup backed by a16z, revealed a seated scooter called Olto that will cost $3,495 when it starts shipping later this year. The Olto will feature 40 miles of range, pulled from an easily swappable 48V lithium-ion battery. During Apple's WWDC 2025 event, a few car-related items were revealed, including that the company is adding widgets and message tapbacks to CarPlay with iOS 26.
Indian Express
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
An aristocratic missionary and a question of property: When SC put checks on Parliament's power to tinker with Constitution
In 1815, the Chatterjee family in Calcutta's Shibpur celebrated the birth of a male heir and marked the moment by donating 100 cows. They also named the boy Golaknath, meaning 'the owner of millions of cows'. Educated in a missionary school, Golaknath converted to Christianity at age 14. Shunned by his family, he is said to have walked thousands of kilometres, first to Benaras, then Allahabad and finally to Punjab. In Jalandhar, the aristocratic Brahmin joined the Scottish American Presbyterian Mission, becoming the first Indian to be ordained a minister. Over a century later, Golaknath Chatterjee's descendants would lend their name to what's perhaps one of the most consequential constitutional cases — IC Golaknath v State of Punjab. In 1962, land owned by the evangelical family ran into trouble with the Punjab government, which ordered that the family's land was 'surplus' under its land ceiling laws. While the right to property was then a fundamental right — it stayed that way until the 44th constitutional Amendment in 1978 — the government had through a series of reforms and Amendments diluted the right over the years. In 1964, through the 17th Amendment, the Parliament had added the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, to the Ninth Schedule, putting it beyond judicial purview. In 1967, the Supreme Court, while deciding on the family's petition challenging the Punjab land ceiling law and the 17th Amendment reopened the question on whether the Parliament could amend fundamental rights. The ruling, for the first time limited Parliament's power to amend the Constitution. While doing so, the court would reverse a view it had consistently held for 17 years until then — that Parliament had the power to tinker with fundamental rights. 'Golaknath was a moment where the judiciary asserted itself against a government that amassed more and more power to change the Constitution. The SC's responsibility to ensure that Parliament's majority does not become majoritarian is as relevant today as it was in 1967,' Dr Faizan Mustafa, Vice-Chancellor of Chanakya National Law University, Patna, says. In 1891, when Golaknath Chatterjee died, his son Henry Golaknath took over as Reverend of the church his father had founded in Jalandhar. Henry, one of Golaknath's 14 children, had in 1882 graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary. Along with his brother William Golaknath, he bought and developed nearly 500 acres around the mission in Bhogpur, approximately 25 km from Jalandhar. While 101-year-old Henry died in 1962, his son Inder and daughter Indira were to inherit the land. However, the District Collector, under the land ceiling law, allowed Inder, Indira and Inder's four daughters a few acres each, declaring around 418 acres as 'surplus' that would vest with the state or the tenants. As the case landed in the Supreme Court, a host of leading lawyers — Nani Palkhivala, M K Nambyar, Ashoke Kumar Sen and Fali Nariman — made the case for Inder C Golaknath, the petitioner. In their arguments, they highlighted the perils of having no restrictions on the Parliament's powers to amend the Constitution. On February 27, 1967, an 11-judge Bench of the SC, headed by then Chief Justice of India Koka Subba Rao, reopened the issue of constitutional amendments diluting the right to property. The Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 1964, had, among other aspects, added the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, to the Ninth Schedule, putting it beyond judicial purview. The amendment again raised the same larger question, which was discussed in earlier parts of The Indian Express's series — whether a constitutional amendment can truncate fundamental rights. In Sankari Prasad v State of Bihar (1951) and Sajjan Singh v State of Rajasthan (1964), the Court had ruled that Parliament had no fetters on its power to amend the Constitution. While it was the right to property that Parliament consistently tinkered with, as the ruling termed it, an 'argument of fear' had begun to take shape — that if Parliament can take away one right, it could take away any right. 'It is said that if Article 368 (dealing with amendment process) is held to confer full (power) to amend each and every part of the Constitution as has been held in Sankari Prasad's case, Parliament may do all kinds of things, which were never intended, under this unfettered power and may, for example, abolish elected legislatures, abolish the President or change the present form of Government into a Presidential type like the United States Constitution or do away with the federal structure altogether,' then CJI Rao articulated. In a 6:5 verdict, the SC, in one stroke, overruled its two earlier rulings and held that Parliament did not have the power to abridge or take away fundamental rights. While CJI Rao and five others formed the majority, Justice K N Wanchoo wrote a minority opinion. 'The power of amendment contained in a written federal constitution is a safety valve which, to a large extent provides for stable growth and makes violent revolution more or less unnecessary,' Justice Wanchoo wrote. It was in the Golaknath case that the 'basic structure' argument was first made by veteran lawyer M K Nambyar, who was inspired by German Professor Dietrich Conrad. Court records show that during the arguments in court, the lawyers referred to how the government was using the legislature as a means of securing changes in the laws which it desires. There were also references to Hitler's Germany. The ruling was perhaps also a reflection of its times. The Republic had moved from a new nation that had emerged from the shadow of colonialism to one that was beginning to confront its internal issues. For the first 17 years, the SC had allowed the Parliament to change the Constitution, but many of those parliamentarians were part of the independence movement. In fact, the first constitutional Amendment was made by the provisional Parliament, which was essentially the Constituent Assembly. As the generation changed, the relationship between the executive and the judiciary too began to change. The Golaknath ruling came around the same time when the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government had come back to power at the Centre, but lost power in several states. The political implications of the ruling had far-reaching consequences for the judiciary. It did not help that Justice Rao resigned as CJI, three months before his term ended and contested for the Presidential elections as the Opposition's candidate. He, however, lost the election to former President Giani Zail Singh. The government, however, saw the court's Golaknath ruling — and subsequent adverse rulings, including the bank nationalisation case (1970) — as open confrontation. The government hit back by superseding judges seen as inimical to its socialist policies. Despite the win, the Golaknaths did not get back their land. 'We didn't even get what was permissible under the law, where each family member could have a standard 30 acres. We received less than one-third of it. Whatever land we did get, we were pressured by villagers to sell it at a ridiculously low price,' Vimal, one of Inder Golaknath's four daughters, tells The Indian Express. The family still retains the 150-year-old 'The Retreat Golaknath House' spanning three acres in the corner of Football Chowk, located in the heart of Jalandhar city. The Golaknath Church, located on the mission compound, is run by Golaknath's sixth-generation descendants. Among Golaknath's many descendants are several illustrious personalities. Dora Chatterjee, the daughter of Golaknath's third child Mary, and Kali Charan Chatterjee, a leading Bengali Christian missionary who was one of India's first woman doctors. Then there was Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, daughter of Priscilla, Golaknath's fourth child, who became a minister in the first Cabinet. Six years after the Golaknath verdict, the Supreme Court would revisit it. This time, in the landmark Kesavananda Bharati ruling (1973), a 13-judge Bench, in a narrow 6:7 ruling, came up with the magic formula — the basic structure test. The SC would say that the Golaknath ruling was valid to the extent that Parliament cannot tinker with fundamental rights, which form part of the basic structure of the Constitution, but the right to property itself, which was essential to Golaknath's descendants, did not form part of that basic structure. Apurva Vishwanath is the National Legal Editor of The Indian Express in New Delhi. She graduated with a B.A., LL. B (Hons) from Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. She joined the newspaper in 2019 and in her current role, oversees the newspapers coverage of legal issues. She also closely tracks judicial appointments. Prior to her role at the Indian Express, she has worked with ThePrint and Mint. ... Read More
Express Tribune
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Operation Only-Kapoor launched
Listen to article India recently pulled a Paul Heyman on Pakistan turned heel. As a consequence, all Pakistani celebrities who ever worked in Bollywood have pulled a John Cena, because you can't see them. Since the ceasefire, Bollywood is erasing Pakistani artists from all posters, thumbnails and marketing materials across their platforms. It's created this digital bizarro-world where characters disappear mysteriously. This Twilight Zone-esque parallel universe of Bollywood where no Pakistani artist exists, and hence, the remaining characters interact with empty air molecules or their narratives shift dramatically, is an amusing idea that could be a lore of its own – a fictional contemporary version of 16th century North Carolina's Roanoke Colony. Strange disappearances The first casualty of this strange phenomenon was Mawra Hocane, who was removed from the poster of her 2015 film Sanam Teri Kasam on Spotify. Sanam is gone, guys. Now the film should be just called Teri Kasam since the poster now only shows Harshvardhan Rane, standing shirtless and with his back half turned, brooding over a splash of colours as if is being forced into an arranged marriage with the red paint and asked to pose for wedding photos. Ismail please! It's a good thing Saru's father held his nerdy daughter's funeral early in the film. The man was ahead of the times and saw Saru ghosting Inder and possibly eloping with Cena. Poor, shirtless Inder. But hey, at least, no one pinky swore to marry him and died right after signing the nikkah certificate. Ali Zafar I mean Luv's brother (not Danyal Zafar) didn't steal his brother ki dulhan. Imran Khan (no, the other one) and his wife lived happily ever after since Zafar didn't exactly 'Luv' his dysfunctional family and kept his distance. I say, good for him. In Om Shanti Om, Javed Shaikh never got into an accident that killed Om Prakash Makhija. His wife gave birth to a son but they didn't name him Om Kapoor nor called him OK The child was named Osama Baksh. They call him O Bey, and he obeys his parents. The tragedy, however, is that Shanti Priya never got justice. In Tamasha, Ranbir Kapoor later met Sandy (Shanti Priya's doppelganger) in Corsica. But RK never recovered from his trauma, because his father left a long time ago. He continued his 9-5 and never became a theatre director. In another chapter, Adhyayan Suman never touches Humayun Saeed's heart with his song. It's not that Humayun has no emotions, he just didn't attend the concert since the 'Jashn' wasn't big enough and Backstreet Boys cancelled their appearance last minute. There's no Zaalima to romance with Shah Rukh Khan in Raees track's thumbnail either. Fawad Khan, on the other hand, disappeared entirely out of Milli's life. Milli turned out to be the 41st doctor to quit treating the king and never met or fell in love with the Rajasthani prince. She was later kidnapped by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap but rescued, and went on to Maskali her way through life. Meanwhile Fawad got sick of the royal lifestyle. For a while, he considered stealing his brother's manuscript to publish under his own name and become a famous writer, but his conscience didn't allow him. Kapoor and Sons lived not-so-happily ever after, despite Fawad's absence. Fawad, though, went on to become a successful DJ but never met Alizeh (Anushka Sharma). She never became his 'aadat'. My guy Ranbir played the long time and eventually convinced her to marry him. She pretended to be in love with him for the rest of her life, which, fortunately for her, wasn't very long. There's also a possibility that Bollywood uses AI to remove Pakistani artists from entire films but the actors behave as if nothing has changed. Neither the audience nor the cast can hear them, but they pretend they are there. I mean, if we can play along with R-Truth's Lil Jimmy, this shouldn't be a big deal. Instrumentals Speaking of habits, Atif Aslam's Aadat never became the anthem for Kalyug. But what will Kunal jam to while he works out and gets ready for revenge? How will the montage be edited without the iconic alaap and the subsequent beautiful gibberish? Who will now shine like a setting sun like a pearl upon the ocean? Who, I ask, will come and heal us? The people demand answers. Madhuri Dixit will have a good arc, though, since no 'jaahil zamana' will be her enemy. No re piya, Dia, and no heartbreaking melody to dance to. Mustafa Zahid's Tera Mera Rishta is muted as well. Now Emraan Hashmi roams around streets, deep into his Awarapan, not to free doves but seeking a melody to hum. The Andalusian Dog While this list could be endless, this pretense that Pakistani artists haven't had a significant impact in Bollywood is quite hilarious on its own. This attempt at 'purifying' Bollywood of its foreign enemy contaminants only makes one pay more attention to it. That's not to overestimate Pakistani influence on Bollywood but one can't deny the star power and contributions of local artists. You can't imagine anyone beside Fawad Khan as DJ Ali. You can't think of Kalyug or Zeher and not remember Atif's hits. In fact, the films may have been forgotten at this point, but the music is still alive (rejoice, Don McLean). Certain Bollywood films would feel like absurd sequences akin to Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog, 1929). It'd look like as if David Lynch directed overly long musical episodes of Black Mirror with a crossover with Twin Peaks where Pakistani actors are replaced with inanimate objects like David Bowie with a glowing orb (albeit it was after his death). If Lars von Trier can have Nicole Kidman pretend she's in a small town while on an empty soundstage with chalk marks, anything can happen. Regardless, this weird strategy to pretend, even if only in posters and thumbnails so far, that Pakistani artists never worked in Bollywood, that the industry is disinfected from the likes of Atif and Fawad, is quite an amusing but ridiculous step. It speaks to the increasing anti-Muslim hatred in India. While the country is being reshaped to fit that fantasy, even the fantasy world of cinema is being molded according to the absurd 'Muslim-free utopia' ideology of Modi. The step is akin to keyboard warriors picking old films and cancelling dead actors for their outdated views online. It serves zero purpose and benefits nobody. You can change your future, but attempting to erase history is as futile a task as rolling a boulder up the mountain for eternity. But hey, at least, we can imagine Sisyphus happy. Paap Culture is a column about cynical commentary on bizarre pop culture happenings
Time of India
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ranbir Kapoor's Animal and Shraddha Kapoor's Stree 2 DELAYED Harshvardhan Rane's Sanam 2: Makers
Romantic film enthusiasts rejoice! Harshvardhan Rane's 'Sanam Teri Kasam' is getting a sequel. Directors Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru initially planned a follow-up, but shifted focus due to trends like 'Animal' and 'Stree 2.' Now, fueled by fan demand, 'Sanam Teri Kasam 2' is back in development. Sapru confirms the sequel was always envisioned, exploring Inder's journey after profound love. Harshvardhan Rane 's Sanam Teri Kasam remains a cult favourite among romantic film lovers. After years of anticipation, a sequel is finally in the works. In a recent chat with Hindi Rush, directors Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru revealed they had always planned a follow-up, but shifting audience preferences put those plans on hold. At the time, intense thrillers like Ranbir Kapoor 's Animal and horror-comedies like Shraddha Kapoor 's Stree 2 were dominating the box office. Now, with fan demand on the rise, the much-awaited sequel is officially back on track. The Sequel Was Always Part of the Plan Filmmaker Vinay Sapru confirmed that Sanam Teri Kasam 2 was "always part of the plan." Speaking about the highly anticipated sequel, Sapru revealed that the idea to continue the story was already in place when they were writing the first film. Planning the Emotional Continuation Vinay explained that they had always intended Sanam Teri Kasam to have a sequel from the very beginning. He mentioned that when crafting such an intense, emotionally charged love story, it's only natural to wonder about the fate of a character like Inder. How does he move on after such a profound love? Sapru revealed that the continuation of Inder's journey was already written during the first film's creation. Focusing on New Trends: Animal and Stree 2 He added that during that time, no one really inquired about a sequel. Instead, they were encouraged to focus on films like Animal and Stree. Fan Demand Brings the Sequel Back to Life With fans now eagerly requesting a continuation of Inder and Saru's emotional journey, the filmmakers have decided to revive the project. Vinay Sapru confirmed, "Since there's demand now, we've pulled it out and started working on it again." The renewed interest is evident, as Sanam Teri Kasam was recently re-released and went on to surpass its initial box office records.
