Aneet Padda, Ahaan Panday turn the tables on paparazzi, Saiyaara stars record photographers in hilarious video. Watch

Aneet Padda and Ahaan Panday had some playful banter with the paparazzi during a recent outing in Mumbai.

Updated on: Aug 10, 2025, 12:10:43 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Saiyaara's success has turned Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda, its lead actors, into overnight stars. The newcomers have become household names after the film's release, which has meant that they are the paparazzi's new favourites as well. On Saturday, the young actors were spotted in Mumbai by some photographers, but the duo turned the tables on the paparazzi during the spotting.

Aneet Padda and Ahaan Panday in a still from Mohit Suri's romantic drama Saiyaara.

Ahaan and Aneet prank the paparazzi

A video of the incident has been shared on social media. It shows Aneet and Ahaan sitting in the car, looking at a phone as paparazzi try to click pictures and shoot videos through the windows. After a while, Aneet turns the phone around to the paparazzi, showing that they are recording them instead. "They are recording the paparazzi lmao," wrote a social media user, while sharing the video.

This is not the first cute interaction the two stars have had with fans and paparazzi of late. Recently, Ahaan made a fan's day by rolling down his window at a traffic signal in Mumbai and clicking a selfie with her.

About Saiyaara

Saiyaara, directed by Mohit Suri, has become the highest-grossing romantic film in the history of Indian cinema, grossing over ₹500 crore worldwide and ₹320 crore in India alone. The film has been produced by Yash Raj Films' CEO, Akshay Widhani. It marks the acting debut of Ahaan Panday, the nephew of actor Chunky Panday and cousin of Ananya. Aneet has worked in Salaam Venky before, and also earned praise for her web series, Big Girls Don't Cry. But Saiyaara is her first lead role in a feature film.

Neither actor has given any interviews to the media, either in the run-up to the film's release or after its success. Sources say that the YRF top brass wants to shield them from over-exposure.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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