With less than a week to go for Tere Ishk Mein’s release, filmmaker Aanand L Rai is surrounded by the familiar chaos of post-production — sleepless nights in mixing rooms, last-minute tweaks in VFX, and the works. As the Dhanush and Kriti Sanon-starrer is nearly ready to meet its audience, the questions begin. The biggest one this time: is Tere Ishk Mein a successor of sorts to Raanjhanaa (2013)? 

“Every artiste has at least two spaces — the rom-coms and the intense love stories. [The latter] is the space I return to. This is my third intense love story, if you count Atrangi Re [2021], but for reasons reserved for the film, it’s actually my second. Maybe that’s why people feel Tere Ishk Mein is a spiritual successor to Raanjhanaa,” reflects the director.