The world of a couple who love each other is destroyed when the girl is diagnosed with amnesia. She goes missing one day, and a musician, uses a song to find her.
We have just described the basic plot of Amit Jadhav’s 2019 YouTube short film Khwabon, not Syayara (2025). The similarities are obvious. And this is the basis of his allegations against the makers of the Ahan Pandey-Aneet Padda starrer in a viral Instagram video.
Speaking to HT City, Amit told, “I had tried to speak out last year too. I actually got a direct message from YRF Talent 2022 on Instagram, they wanted to contact me. I asked them for which project they were reaching out to me, they didn’t respond. I didn’t know anyone there, nor had I given any auditions to reach out to them. A week after the release of Saiyaara, my friends called me and Said ‘Yours was the same story’ I was surprised. I tried to contact them, even went to their office but my friends said they would not entertain me or respond to me.
Interestingly, Saira’s story was also claimed to be inspired by the story last year, though in relation to the 2004 Korean film, A Moment to Remember. Amit says that Syara is closer to his story about music than an international film.
Amit claims that he went into depression because he was trying to convert his short film into a feature film. “I’m a singer, so I kept getting work, so I relaxed a bit. But one day I almost committed suicide. I slipped up, my parents saw it and that’s how I survived. I felt like the world didn’t want me to succeed. I wasn’t called for any auditions,” he says.
And that’s when he started working on a script for himself, “I had also found producers. We were supposed to shoot in 2025. But then Saiyara happened, everything got derailed.”
We ask whether he had registered any story or script. “I am part of the Screenwriters Association, but no, I did not register the story in 2019 because it was a short film and was on a public platform as proof,” says Amit.
Amit alleges that he tried to reach out to YRF again after the film, “I wrote in the mail that I had received a mail from them in 2022 also and Saira’s story is similar to mine, please clarify. I mailed twice, got no reply.”
What he’s looking for now is acceptance, “I should get some credit. Or I can at least be cast in some role in a project. That’s all I’m looking for.” We contacted Mohit and Yash Raj Films for comment, but did not receive any response till the time this article went live.