'Sanam Teri Kasam' director Vinay Sapru sheds light on the film's connections with Shiv Puran

During an exclusive conversation with IANS, director Vinay Sapru revealed how they took inspiration from the 'Shiv Puran' for the story of "Sanam Teri Kasam".

The filmmaker said, "Generally love stories include a rich boy and a poor girl, or a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. So, we wanted to do something different for this film. At that time we read Shiv Puran and while we were reading it, we found our story. We had found the issue that would lead to the separation of our lead couple. It has been mentioned in one of the chapters from Shiv Puran that if the wedding of the daughter is not blessed by her father even God's wedding wouldn't succeed, that is the Shiv and the Sati episode. But if the same wedding is blessed by the father it becomes the eternal love pair, which is Shiva and Parvati."

He further added, 'In Sanam Teri Kasam, when Saru's father says, "I will perform your pind daan" (last rites), she cries and tries to convince him not to do so. However, he ignores her pleas and tells the watchman, "You come for the pind daan food too." He then performs the last rites for her while she's still alive. In the second half, she falls ill, and the boy assures her that he'll take her to the best doctors and she'll recover. However, she refuses as she felt that whatever blessings or curse are given by parents ,God grants them. So, no matter what, she is not going to survive."

Apart from the 'Shiv Puran', "Sanam Teri Kasam" is also inspired by Eric Segal's novel "Love Story".