Sumit Arora is riding high on the success of Border 2. The writer has come a long way, from his early days in television to making a mark across films and OTT. With shows like Dill Mill Gayye and Sadda Haq, he captured young audiences on the small screen, and today he is the mind behind some of the most quoted lines from Stree, The Family Man and Jawan, among others. When we sit down for a conversation, he reflects on arriving in Mumbai as a teenager with big-screen dreams, navigating the stigma of being labelled a 'TV writer', and eventually breaking into films with Stree.